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BroadSoft provides Unified Communications and Collaboration services to operators all over the world. Put simply, BroadWorks helps operators to provide unified communications services needed by enterprise customers globally. The call recording protocol used by BroadWorks has been integrated into the very core of Dubber, allowing us to work together in perfect harmony. Without being too technical, here we describe how this partnership benefits the call recording services Dubber can provide to our users.

BroadWorks embraced a new global call recording standard when they created their SIPREC interface. The interface essentially provides a link between the service provider’s telephony environment and the recording platform, allowing companies who provide call recording solutions access to users’ conversations. If the user decides to record their calls, this interface enables them to utilise call recording software. It is the SIPREC protocol that forms the basis of Dubber’s construction. Our call recording solution has been designed to interface with the SIPREC platforms, enabling us to provide call recording to any platform that already deploys SIPREC. BroadSoft is the perfect partner for Dubber, helping our call recording solution to achieve new levels of functionality and service to our users. BroadSoft themselves have acknowledged the harmonious union as Dubber passed their rigorous interoperability tests to become accredited: “The Dubber platform and SaaS business model complement the BroadSoft technologies”.

This partnership developed further in May this year, when BroadSoft chose Dubber to be their official partner for Audio Call Recording as part of their fully managed service for Japanese telecoms, BroadCloud. This development is something Dubber has eagerly awaited, as it provides an exciting development for our growing global scope. We will soon provide our call recording solutions in association with BroadSoft’s managed service in Japan, improving our service in yet another region.

The BroadWorks motto is “simplify, accelerate, innovate”, and through our collaboration, that is exactly what Dubber has achieved for call recording services.

Simplify

Dubber’s partnership with BroadWorks simplifies call recording for our users by:

• Limiting your admin. The only administration needed to start using our recording services is a simple sign up to the BroadWorks interface
• Automatic call recording: Dubber captures calls through the SIPREC interface directly from the BroadWorks system
• Processing of data: all relevant metadata is efficiently processed, stored and presented through the Dubber Cloud Application
• No hardware headaches for end users or service providers
• No need for maintenance, upgrades or limited scalability or storage

Accelerate

Dubber’s partnership with BroadWorks accelerates call recording for our users by:

• Rapid deployment: the SIPREC link between BroadWorks carriers and Dubber speeds deployment of our call recording to users. Your service could be up and running in mere hours!
• Automatically provisioning Call Recording for BroadWorks users
• Limited administration and setup
• Hassle free testing: Dubber’s Lab operates as a call recording sandbox, allowing carriers to test our services by connecting BroadWorks lab systems to Dubber in a matter of minutes

Innovate

Dubber’s partnership with BroadWorks innovates call recording for our users by:

• Allowing unlimited scalability: Dubber’s connection to BroadWorks operates from a cloud platform, allowing elasticity of call recording services to users for the first time
• Creative ways of accessing the  Big Voice Data: through the BroadWorks API allows association between Dubber users and their phone data
• Specially constructed high availability of every component of Dubber
• Meeting PCI-DSS compliance: all BroadWorks users can benefit from Dubber’s ability to help users meet PCI-DSS compliance through secure access to recordings and encryption technologies, download and sharing controls, complex password authentication, pause and resume functions during exchange of sensitive information, ability to tag recordings as ‘sensitive’, and finally DTMF masking and muting
• Global service: the partnership enables Dubber to deploy call recording worldwide: interconnect points are available to maintain a guaranteed level of quality between the service provider’s SIPREC enabled deployment and Dubber’s cloud infrastructure. New locations can be requested.
• Support for VoiP, IM and Video capture

The accreditation by BroadSoft has allowed Dubber to revolutionise BroadWorks call recording technology for service providers, by providing a service for end users that has never before been possible. As with everything we do, Dubber works to innovate our services in areas which have previously been stagnant for essentially decades. In pursuit of this challenge, we are always looking to partner with industry leaders such as BroadSoft, and through these relationships, bring improved service to both our end users and the clients of these industry leaders.

The British public have spoken and they want out (of the European Union). In the months running up to the June 23rd referendum the sterling took a plunge but made a bullish recovery ’til the the night of voting. Following the success of Vote Leave, as it was announced throughout the night and morning of 24th, we’ve seen the FTSE 100 and the GBP take huge dives.

With both now being slowly on the mend, it makes me wonder, how is rest of the economy going to react to this within short and medium terms. When it comes to Telcos and service providers, where can we see drastic changes in the near future?

Relocation, Roaming, International Calls and Spectrums

When it comes to mobile carriers and large telecommunication organisations, there are four major areas we can speculate about, and these are the ones we’ll be discussing here. First will be major providers considering moving their European headquarters outside of UK.

We can draw from Mr Colao, Vodafone’s CEO hinting that FTSE 100 companies such as Vodafone could move their headquarters if the free movement of people and capital was restricted. Freedom of movement may become more regulated in a UK outside of EU, but will movement of capital will ever become restrictive enough for companies such as Vodafone to consider relocating their headquarters?

Second is international calls. On the back of Britain leaving the EU, we might see another Scottish referendum in order for the Scots to leave the UK and apply for an individual EU membership. In basic terms, a phone call from Scotland to England would then count as an international call and the new costs imposed on consumers.

Next area of concern is roaming charges. The European Commission recently ruled in favour of abolishing roaming charges by June 2017. Companies like Vodafone and Three have already been rolling this offer to their customers. By the time UK has triggered Article 50 and spent the next two years negotiating a deal to exit the EU, we might see roaming charges snapped back into place for UK customers, travelling through Europe.

Regarding the fourth area of change, according to Bird & Bird, following Brexit, the UK is not going to be subject to decisions and regulations set by the Commission on spectrum allocations and use across the EU. Most likely UK will cooperate with member states and neighbouring countries, however regulatory divergence may rise between UK and EU in respect of regulations of OTT services. UK may take a more liberal approach on these services that could help add to stagnant revenue streams of carriers and telcos in west Europe.

For the year ended 31 March 2016, Vodafone reported organic group revenue growth of 2.3%. Most of this growth came from outside the company’s European area of operations. Vodafone’s service revenue from its African, Middle Eastern and Asia-Pacific operations grew at 6.9% year-on-year. European service revenue shrank by 0.6% on an organic basis for the period and UK service revenue contracted by 0.3% for the period.

Telcos are not Brexit ready

In a recent poll by Pinsent Masons, an international law firm, has highlighted that only 35% of telecommunication firms polled have a clear plan for dealing with impact of UK leaving EU.

In addition a recent survey by TechUK of 277 technology business leaders found 70% were in favour of staying in the EU, with only 15% supporting a Brexit. More than 90% of those in favour of leaving the EU said it would give the UK more flexibility in a global economy, and 64% believed it would make the UK more globally competitive. Here we can argue that the main disadvantages of staying in the EU would be around red tapes and regulations enforced by EU on UK innovation and growth in these areas.

To summarise, nearly in each area where a door is closed by UK leaving the EU, a new one may open through opportunity, innovation and investment. A lot will come down to the negotiations in the next two years, who the Conservative party will nominate to lead the country through these negotiations and how quickly the nation can unify and back the majority decision in the referendum. As roaming and spectrum rules could become British, it is very likely that they will mirror the European approach in these instances and we won’t see any immediate benefits from a new ‘free market’ that is to be the new UK.

A snapshot into the evolution of unified communications and call recording through the last two centuries. From the first telephone operators to new generation of communication recording intelligence.

Cloud-based call recording technology provider Dubber Corporation Limited (ASX: DUB) (“Dubber”) is pleased to announce it has been selected by UK telecommunications and IT service provider, AVC One (“AVC”), to provide call recording services via AVC’s BroadSoft platform.

AVC’s management team are pioneers of BroadSoft’s unified communications (UC) platform, and were one of the first to adopt BroadSoft’s technology in the UK in 2002.  The company has subsequently built a channel network of service providers and resellers, and count many high profile UK brands as customers.

The agreement with AVC is the first customer engagement with Siphon Networks, under a distribution agreement commenced in March 2016.  As an existing provider of BroadSoft managed services to AVC, Siphon have been an integral part of the agreement and are providing integration resources to deploy Dubber on AVC’s platform. AVC will initially deliver a minimum of 1,000 contracted ‘reserved’ users, which will expand with opportunities from both existing AVC call recording users and those requiring unique functionality provided by Dubber.