Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 22 March
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 22 March 2024 With our eyes set on the revised OTS go-live date of 12th September, the entire TOTSCo team is focusing sharply on operational readiness while providing unwavering support to all stakeholders during the testing phase in anticipation of the OTS go-live. To date we have […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 15 March
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 15 March 2024 This week marks a significant milestone for the industry, as we released the revised One Touch Switch (OTS) planned go-live date of 12 September. Alongside this announcement, we have also published the TOTSCo path to One Touch Switch go-live. There are different paths to go-live […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 8 March
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 8 March 2024 I am pleased to share that it now seems we will be able to confirm the revised One Touch Switch (OTS) planned go-live date next week. Additionally, we will be providing further detail about the path to go-live. This will include plans for […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 1 March
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 1 March 2024 We were delighted to welcome over 160 individuals representing 79 diverse organisations from across the industry to our February Stakeholder Forum I appreciate the questions and challenges raised during the session. I understand the eagerness to receive a revised OTS go-live date, and […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 23 February
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 23 February 2024 This week, our key focus has been refining the support around the live environment for the upcoming industry trials and One Touch Switch (OTS) go-live. We are initiating a series of information-sharing sessions with industry, covering service, incident, and change management. Soon, these […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 16 February
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 16 February 2024 After a break last week, there are two weeks of progress to catch up on. I’m delighted that in preparation for industry trials, we have now launched our production environment and commenced full production support services. These positive steps will boost our customer […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 2 February
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 2 February 2024 This week we held our first Stakeholder Forum of the year. Thank you to all of you who came along, your valuable feedback and questions are critical to our ongoing progress. If you couldn’t attend, you can find a recording here. I was […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 26 January
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 26 January 2024 This week, our focus remains on supporting our current operations while simultaneously preparing our run-state technical, security, and customer services for start in February and March. At the same time, we are eager to share a revised go-live date for OTS. Currently, we are […]
My first blog of 2024…
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 19 January 2024 Though we find ourselves a bit further into the month, as I kick off my first blog of the year, I want to extend warm wishes to you all for a Happy New Year. As anticipated, our primary focus as we start the […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 19 January
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 19 January 2024 Though we find ourselves a bit further into the month, as I kick off my first blog of the year, I want to extend warm wishes to you all for a Happy New Year. As anticipated, our primary focus as we start the […]
My last blog of 2023!
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 22 December 2023 It has been another busy week, even if we all have one eye on the break ahead. Following last week’s announcement of a delay to the planned OTS go-live date, we issued bulletin 40 updating our invoicing arrangements, to create financial certainty for CPs and […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 15 December
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 22 December 2023 This week has been tough and demanding for TOTSCo and all those involved in OTS. The delay in the OTS go-live is disappointing news for all of us. Thank you for all your honesty and openness during yesterday’s discussion at the Stakeholder Forum. […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 8 December
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 8 December 2023 Hello everyone, With only 10 working days left before Christmas, it’s not time for a glass of brandy and a mince pie just yet—there’s still lots to be done. Testing activity is still ramping up which is very encouraging, although am still concerned by […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 1 December
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 1 December 2023 Hello everyone, As we navigate through another busy week at TOTSCo, our journey towards One Touch Switching (OTS) continues to gain momentum thanks to the collective efforts and commitment of our entire community. Firstly, I am pleased to report that we are making excellent […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 24 November
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 8 December 2023 This week I’m delighted to report that testing has ramped up in earnest, with an increased number of larger CPs starting their testing journeys. On Monday, TOTSCo successfully released more functionality in the portal. This is intended to make your experience easier, and we’ve already […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 17 November
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 8 December 2023 This week, our focus has intensified on strengthening our integration test process with the right exit criteria and working with industry to define industry trials (using live data). We want to make sure we are doing all we can to support industry in proving their […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of Paul Bradbury 10 November
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 10 November 2023 Yesterday evening at the ISPA awards was truly a night to remember. It was a pleasure to meet so many of our hub users in person, sharing insights and experiences as we all gear up for the One Touch Switching (OTS) initiative. The energy and […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 10 November
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 10 November 2023 Yesterday evening at the ISPA awards was truly a night to remember. It was a pleasure to meet so many of our hub users in person, sharing insights and experiences as we all gear up for the One Touch Switching (OTS) initiative. The energy and […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 3 November
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 3 November 2023 Great to be back with the team after a few days off. With only 18 weeks to go until the planned go-live of One Touch Switch it’s great to see more organisations preparing for testing but we want to see more. I encourage you get […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 20 October
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 20 October 2023 Today, I am delighted we are releasing on-time the new authentication protocols. In addition to OAuth2, we’re introducing API Key and mTLS, all available in our simulator and integration testing environments. Also, for those of you who have commercially onboarded, we have enabled […]
Bulletin 31 – Release of new authentication protocols and self-service functionality
Bulletin 51 Revised One Touch Switch planned go-live date 20 October 2023 We are pleased to announce the revised One Touch Switch planned go-live date is 12 September 2024. In addition, we are publishing the TOTSCo path to One Touch Switch. There are different paths to go-live depending on participation in industry trials, and this […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 20 October
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 20 October 2023 Today, I am delighted we are releasing on-time the new authentication protocols. In addition to OAuth2, we’re introducing API Key and mTLS, all available in our simulator and integration testing environments. Also, for those of you who have commercially onboarded, we have enabled […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 13 October
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 13 October 2023 Throughout this week, we’ve seen a good amount of testing activity. In In parallel, we’ve been preparing to deliver new services to you from 20 October. We will be launching two new authentication protocols, mTLS and API Key, which are scheduled to be available in […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 6 October
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 6 October 2023 We’ve had an incredibly productive week here at TOTSCo. I am pleased to see lots more organisations actively engaging going through simulator and integration testing with more slots booked in the weeks ahead. We really want to see more of you coming to start […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 29 September
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 29 September 2023 After meeting so many hub users at Connected Britain last week, it was wonderful to build on this engagement with the September Stakeholder Forum (see our website for the presentation and recording) and by attending the CCUK awards ceremony on Thursday. Achieving One Touch Switch […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 22 September
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 22 September 2023 What an incredible week it’s been at Connected Britain, and I’m absolutely thrilled that TOTSCo was a part of it. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who visited the TOTSCo stand. It was great to meet such a diverse range of organisations and […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 15 September
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 15 September 2023 Today we are delighted to see the hub’s first integration test, where three users – 2CPs and a Managed Access Provider – will send and receive messages to each other in the integration-test environment and will run test cases covering the One Touch Switch […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 8 September
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 8 September 2023 This week we have seen lots more of you successfully go through testing in our hub simulator and I am delighted that we are pairing up CPs/MAPS ready for OTS integration testing. For those of you unsure of how to test your systems and […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 1 September
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 1 September 2023 This week we welcomed the achievement of a further two milestones on our delivery roadmap. We opened commercial onboarding and we enhanced the functionality of our test simulator. That’s two important steps further in our OTS journey. Well over 100 of you have completed step 1 […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 25 August
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 25 August 2023 It was good to welcome over 130 of you to the Stakeholder Forum yesterday, which was fantastic considering we’re still in the midst of the holiday season. So, thank you for coming along. As I mentioned yesterday, since our last gathering in July when I […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 18 August
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 18 August 2023 Since the start of onboarding on 10 July, we have seen a ramp up of direct interaction with you, the users of the hub. We now have over 100 CPs who have onboarded with us and received their RCPID, and around ten CPs […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 11 August
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 11 August 2023 We are all on a journey towards OTS, and this week holds a significant place in my own journey, marking one year since I joined TOTSCo. I was thrilled to celebrate the anniversary this morning by witnessing a live demonstration of the hub […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 4 August
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 4 August 2023 Since initiating our onboarding and testing processes, TOTSCo has been a hive of activity. We now have over 90 stakeholders onboarded. We have conducted initial tests to ensure stakeholders can send messages and receive the correct responses. During this time, the team have diligently […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 28 July
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 28 July 2023 Today marks another significant milestone on the journey to One Touch Switch. Our test simulator is now live and available for use. This allows you to perform a ‘connection test’ by sending test messages and receiving responses. If you haven’t yet onboarded, all you […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 21 July
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 21 July 2023 Since opening our doors for business on Monday last week (10 July) we now have over 80 residential fixed voice and broadband providers that are now on the way to being fully fledge TOTSCo customers. If you haven’t yet onboarded, all you need […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 14 July
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 14 July 2023 What a momentous week it has been. On Monday, TOTSCo opened for business! We are pleased to announce that we have successfully onboarded more than 60 residential fixed voice and broadband providers, who have started to book their test slots. Don’t forget, you […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 7 July
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 7 July 2023 This week marks a significant milestone on the One Touch Switch journey. All our hard work has paid off, as on Monday, we will be ready to invite all residential fixed voice and broadband providers to onboard with us. It means everyone who […]
Friday’s reflections Blog from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 23 June
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 22 March 2024 It has been another busy week, with the whole TOTSCo team working hard to deliver against our schedule. We are preparing to onboard OTS hub users from July 10th. Our team has created comprehensive ‘user guides’ that will guide you through the entire […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 23 June
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 7 July 2023 This week marks a significant milestone on the One Touch Switch journey. All our hard work has paid off, as on Monday, we will be ready to invite all residential fixed voice and broadband providers to onboard with us. It means everyone who […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 16 June
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 16 June 2023 It was great to have such good attendance at the Stakeholder Forum. We shared the results of our Industry Engagement survey which has given us a tremendous amount of valuable insight. The survey, together with other engagement initiatives, has given us a useful […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 9 June
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 26 January 2024 This week, our focus remains on supporting our current operations while simultaneously preparing our run-state technical, security, and customer services for start in February and March. At the same time, we are eager to share a revised go-live date for OTS. Currently, we are […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 2 June
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 2 June 2023 As I sit here, going through the comments from the Engagement Survey we recently sent and seeing your requests for regular updates from TOTSCo, I thought it would be a fantastic idea to kickstart your weekend with a Friday round-up. Time flies at […]
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 2 June
Friday’s reflections from the desk of CEO Paul Bradbury 2 June 2023 As I sit here, going through the comments from the Engagement Survey we recently sent and seeing your requests for regular updates from TOTSCo, I thought it would be a fantastic idea to kickstart your weekend with a Friday round-up. Time flies at […]
