The Openreach switch off marks a significant transition in the UK’s telecommunications landscape, impacting millions of consumers and businesses reliant on traditional analogue phone services. Openreach, a subsidiary of BT Group, has long been responsible for maintaining the UK’s extensive telecommunications infrastructure, including the copper wires that have facilitated landline phone services for decades. However,…
Travelling abroad for business purposes can be an exciting opportunity to explore new markets, meet with clients, and attend conferences. However, it’s important to be aware of the potential risks and costs associated with using your UK mobile phone abroad, particularly when it comes to data usage. The cost of data usage overseas can be…
ISDN has been the backbone of the business telecommunication network since the 1980s providing service to business of all sizes. Offering far more capacity than analogue lines and faster data connections (prior to the arrival of ADSL) ISDN became the “go to” solution for business telephony. Available in two flavours, ISND2 worked well for smaller…
Lots of businesses and home users get frustrated with their internet, struggling with slow connections and multiple dropouts. I often read comments from people on blogs and forums where they will say something along the lines of “I’ve got full signal on my Wi-Fi, but my internet is so slow” why is that? There is…
Here we are in 2020 and rubbish broadband is still the most common conversation we have business owners. Why is that? Even as the deployment of Fibre broadband (FTTC) expands, many business owners are still left frustrated with the state of their business internet connection, what can you do, if anything? Well, there are a…
Schools out for summer, Alice Cooper has made a few for dollars with extra airplay in America and Mums & Dads all over the UK are thanking their lucky stars that home schooling is over. And I bet a few of them have realised that the teacher wasn’t the problem, turns out the teacher…
Every month we have one or two customers who receive mobile bills far higher than they were expecting. There is always a logical explanation for it, perhaps someone else used the phone, they’d been on holiday or just went over their data limit. However, these charges are often excessive, especially if the charge relates to…
In our last blog article at the start of April, we asked if homeworking was going to be the new normal? In the month that has nearly passed and if you believe what the scientist and politicians are telling us, this current situation looks like that it could go on for quite some time, maybe…
Is This The New Normal? After the initial rush to set up VPNs, remote desktop and IP telephony, much of the country’s workforce is now settling down to another week of home working. The on-going situation is not clear but it’s likely that social distancing will remain for quite some time. We may well be looking…
If you’re thinking about moving office this year you’ll no doubt have a long list of things to do. Top of that list will be find the actual premises themselves and that’s no small achievement. Once you’ve found the premises, negotiated yourself a great deal and handed it over to your solicitor then all the…