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One Track Approach To WiFi On Trains...

Welcome to our July Newsletter which this month uncovers some interesting info on why using your mobile whilst on the train can be a tad frustrating, what the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority now expect should your bank suffer an IT outage and how helping us, could ultimately put you "In the money"...
Train WiFi Frustrating? Now You Know Why...
The DfT set a limit on the data allowance that it deemed sufficient for browsing and email purposes, and reckoned that 50MB would be more than enough.

With much of the rail network staggering along on an infrastructure designed for the 19th century and earlier, capping based on web page sizes from the last century seems eminently sensible.

As of 09/07/18, the median desktop page consumes 1709.4KB while it appears on your browser, and so-called mobile pages take 1565.8KB, so it doesn't take long to burn through that 50MB!

The DfT then left it to the train operators to decide what should happen once that allowance has been burned through, and throttling is the name of the game.

Passengers on Southern trains will see their bandwidth drop to a 1990s level of 0.5Mbps.

Clearly, the roaming rules occasionally used by some mobile operators also apply to trains.

Taxi, anyone?
Helping Us, Helps YOU...
The CMI referral Scheme to reward our clients for referrals made that result in new business for CMI is up and running and proving to be a success for a number of our clients, one of whom recently received over £1,000 credit to thank them for introducing two business contacts that selected CMI to become their IT support partners.

All you need to do is to send an email to sales@newcmi.com or via your account manager referencing the CMI referral scheme and providing details for the introduction.

There is no limit to the value of credits we will provide; so it’s possible to significantly reduce (or maybe boost) your IT budget with the use of these credits.

Who do you know who needs us?..
Bank Outages And How It Affects YOUR Business

The Bank of England (BoE) and the Financial Conduct Authority has announced that firms under their remit must report their exposure to risk and their plans to respond to IT outages by 5 October.

It also said two days is the maximum acceptable time for systems to be down. Fines and other sanctions are expected for firms that fail to meet the deadline.

As recent events have shown, IT outages at financial services providers can cause serious disruption to the lives of people and businesses. Banks today are highly reliant on IT systems to run effectively and the ability to get these back up and running quickly after an outage is vital – regulators now want firms to prove they can do this within two days of systems going down.

The recent IT failures at TSB and Visa, which caused major problems for customers, have triggered action by regulators.

The BoE’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC), which attempts to find and prevent risks to the UK financial system, also recently said it  is developing a new framework of minimum services that must be provided during IT failures.
GDPR - Do YOU Know The Score?...
By now you should know what it is, what it means for your organisation and what happens if you do not comply with it?

The General Data Protection Regulation is an EU regulation designed to strengthen data protection for individuals within the EU.

It will apply from May 25th 2018 following its publication in the official journal of the EU on May 11th 2016.

The GDPR states that organisations must adopt appropriate policies, procedures and processes to ensure compliance or risk fines of up to 4% of turnover.
Should you wish to discuss any of the above topics in more detail, just drop your account manager an email, or give them a call.