CWP in collaboration with its technology partner, Mediafon Datapro, and two of its founder members, Glide Business and County Broadband, were supported by TOTSCo and its technology partner Tech Mahindra. The successfully completion of critical tests have demonstrated the integration of CWP’s platform and the OTS Hub.
CWP has created a unique switching portal that includes: retailer to retailer ticketing, match data upload and web plugin features. This portal could help the UK telecom industry prepare for the launch of OTS during Q1 2024.
These successful trial transactions were completed using the TOTSCo Pre-Production OTS Hub and the Common Switching Platform service.
API connectivity tests and messaging tests were initially carried out between CWP and the TOTSCo simulator. This was followed by sample County Broadband and Glide Business end user residential customer match and switch requests. Those requests were then transacted via the TOTSCo Hub.
CWP has proposed to become a TOTSCo Managed Access Provider. It said that it will be ready to commence industry trials from the planned date of 20th October.
Those trials could potentially involve more of its member base who are in various stages of OTS readiness. CWP is also actively seeking more members to collaborate in readiness testing.
Lloyd Felton, CEO, County Broadband, explained, “County Broadband has been supportive of the CWP value adding platform since 2021 and looks forward to growing its full fibre customer base when OTS launches formally on 14 March 2024.”
Richard Malazia, sales director, Glide Business, added, “The extensive support that CWP have provided by responding swiftly to ongoing changes with the OTS standard has allowed Glide to remain focussed on its core business whilst easing us into the new OTS regulation.”
Marcel Horst, CEO, CWP, said, “Over 300 residential and 4,000 business retailers across the UK must get their systems, processes and support resources in place now to grab the OTS opportunity and comply with the regulation.
“We believe we have created something unique that will make it easier to embrace OTS within the fabric of a telecom retailer, but there really is very little time left before the OTS launch. We know this first hand, having launched OTS once already.”
CWP was created in 2021 as a not-for-profit member-owned organisation with the primary purpose to facilitate wholesale and switching messaging services. Its services are based on a global switching platform that currently handles 1.6 million monthly transactions.