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Brexit: All you need to know about the UK leaving the EU

Posted on July 26, 2016June 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

What does Brexit mean? It is a word that has become used as a shorthand way of saying the UK leaving the EU - merging the words Britain and exit to get Brexit, in a same way as a Greek exit from the EU was dubbed Grexit in the past. Why is Britain leaving the European Union? A referendum - a vote in which everyone (or nearly everyone) of voting age can take part - was held on Thursday 23 June, ...
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Updated Guidance on Promoting premium rate services

Posted on September 17, 2015January 22, 2018 by Daniel Kobale

PhonepayPlus today publishes Guidance on Promoting premium rate services Updated Guidance on Promoting premium rate services PhonepayPlus today publishes Guidance on Promoting premium rate services. This is the latest in a range of Guidance that PhonepayPlus has produced to help providers of premium rate services (PRS) understand the standards set under the 13th Code of Practice. The rules ...
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LAUNCHED TODAY! Free PrepayGEO+ 01/02/03 UK Numbers with VoIP/SIP

Posted on July 10, 2015May 7, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

Introducing our brand new PrepayGEO (Geographic UK Numbers) service with a difference. I know what thinking, just another geographic number supplier! Well actually no, we are not just another geographic number supplier! We have our own shared network, number ranges and development, which has enabled Open to build a product uniquely, putting our customers first. Our customer number management po...
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SMS over PSTN Phone Lines (Endorsed by Texecom Ltd)

Posted on July 16, 2013June 16, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

Vodafone the last man standing? SMS over PSTN phone lines has been used in varying industries for many years and was often sold as an additional service by alarm companies, allowing the user to be notified of alarm conditions and open/close events. For many years there were two main players operating the service in the UK, O2 and Vodafone. In 2012 the ...
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Clear pricing of our NGN phone numbers

Posted on April 17, 2013February 26, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

Here at DIDcomms we believe in making customers, callers and other end-users of our phone numbers we issue, known as NGN's which means "non-geographic numbers" For that very reason here you will find the costs of each number type are provide. Number types and costs to the callers from a BT line (calls from mobiles and other networks may vary) 070457xxxx (cost to caller £0.375 daytime, £0.25 ...
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SMS Functionality from Galaxy Control Panels Using PSTN

Posted on February 27, 2013June 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

Honeywell Security Group has recently received the following email extract from the BSIA (British Security Industry Association), regarding the O2 network and the TAP gateway used for SMS texting via PSTN. The O2 centre number (07860 980480) has been unreliable for a period of time, and even though the panel will transmit the message, a failure by the O2 server will result in an “SMS Comm Fail”...
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Problems with TAP SMS over PSTN

Posted on February 27, 2013February 25, 2021 by Daniel Kobale

Problem: Having only just realized that the O2 SMS gateway is not reliable [when I first realised I should have had alerts, I thought my SD2 dialler had died], I have contacted O2 who are looking into the service, and they maintain that it should be running at the time of writing [November 2011] but advise me that it will cease operation around April 2012. I have discovered a long list of TAP ...
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TFS EMEA Technical Support Services TIB072INT12 SMS and G2 v1.51 Update

Posted on February 27, 2013June 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

Date of issue: 16 January 2012 Purpose: This Customer Advice Note (CAN 039) provides information relating to the SMS functionality from Galaxy control panels using PSTN landlines and information regarding an update to the G2 Control Panel. Problem: The following email extract has been sent to us by BSIA (British Security Industry Association), who have received information regarding the O2 net...
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I’ve got a Galaxy G2-20 which has been using the SMS feature by the O2 gateway on my BT line.. however now sadly the service has died (constant engaged tone).

Posted on February 27, 2013June 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

Hi all, I've got a Galaxy G2-20 which has been using the SMS feature by the O2 gateway on my BT line.. however now sadly the service has died (constant engaged tone). So I need to get my G2-20 to speak to the outside world once more. After a night of googling it seems that non of the other SMS gateways either work or work with non subscribers. So its looking like a GSM card (horrificly...
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Do you use TAP messaging on your Honeywell Galaxy alarm systems?

Posted on January 6, 2013April 20, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

If you have "Honeywell Galaxy or Texecom alarm systems" and you used to use the O2 TAP messaging service which was withdraw in 2011 or you currently use the Vodafone TAP messaging service and you are dissatisfied with their service, we have the solution for you! DIDcomms have just released in December 2012 the OpenTAP Gateway the free of charge TAP to SMS/Email messaging PSTN dial-up service. T...
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