The FCA has recently issued a reminder to firms about forthcoming changes to the UK telephone system.
The current analogue phone network (known as the Public Switched Telephone Network or PSTN) is starting to be switched off across the UK. It will be completely decommissioned by the end of 2025, migrating to a digital phone network, delivered through Voice over IP (VoIP).
This is a major change to the UK’s telecoms networks and will affect anything that currently plugs into existing analogue telephone wall sockets. Firms should be making plans to ensure there is no disruption to the services they provide.
Further information can be found here.
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David Anderson Suitability complaints, Pension, PI, Update
There is an old joke about a man going to his dentist, picking up a magazine in the waiting room and reading that the Titanic had sunk. This reference to how out of date dentists’ reading material can be is unfortunately not merely a mildly amusing joke or restricted to dentists.