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A collection of 12 posts
Supporting legacy 4 digit dialling in Microsoft Teams
Migrating an organization's communication system to Microsoft Teams represents a pivotal shift, particularly for large enterprises rooted in established dialing practices. Unlike traditional telephony systems, which rely on extensions, Teams emphasizes user identity for calls, enabling users to
You can't get there from here - port blocking by residential ISPs
Recently I was working with one of my customers to setup the Azure Files [https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/storage/files] service - a cloud based file sharing solution from Microsoft that allows you to "mount Azure Files
Flanker brands are killing independent ISPs
Recently a relative of mine moved and needed internet access. Having not shopped for residential internet service in a long time, I was shocked to see that Virgin, the Bell "flaker brand" was selling 50/10 VDSL service
Caller ID Spoofing with Microsoft Teams and Calling Plan
Microsoft Calling Plans for Teams [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/calling-plans-for-office-365] are a great way for Teams users to enable the telephony features of Microsoft Teams without having to deploy any of the infrastructure required for Teams Direct Routing
The CRTC once again fails Canadians
As you may have seen in the news recently, Canadian merchants are starting to charge processing fees for credit card transcations [https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/canadian-businesses-can-charge-credit-card-fees-starting-oct-6-1.6096370] . The history of this goes back to 2018, when class action lawsuits
Brief Summary of the Rogers Outage RFI
Late last night the CRTC posted the reply from Rogers to the request for information [https://mgamble.ca/static/Rogers-CRTC-RFI.pdf] (RFI) it sent last week. In the RFI, the CRTC asked Rogers to respond to 55 questions about the
Rogers outage postmortem - is it time for structural separation?
On Friday July 8th around 4:45AM, the Rogers network in Canada went down hard [https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-view-of-the-rogers-communications-outage-in-canada/] . Cellular, internet, and cable services were disrupted for customers across the country. The NetBlocks monitoring group estimated the outage knocked