Ofcom fined Tismi four hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred pounds after about three hundred and sixty-six thousand sub-allocated phone numbers were exposed to potential misuse for over two years, with evidence of nuisance and scam calls tied to the numbers. 📞⚠️

The episode also covers ElevenLabs’ Eleven Realtime launch, which it says turns speech-to-speech into a complete voice agent, and Mistral’s Voxtral 3 voice-agent kit, priced at four US cents a minute in one configuration.

The practical takeaway is that phone-number onboarding, ongoing monitoring and misuse reporting are now part of the risk picture for any voice deployment, while the model launches still leave key caveats open: pricing, what is included, and how performance holds up on real calls.

Next, attention turns to the fuller Tismi decision, the new Xtra Phones UK investigation, ElevenLabs’ Realtime pricing and whether Mistral clarifies its per-minute voice-agent costs. Signal and Story examines what checks telecoms providers should make, what disappears when voice systems are assembled as one model, and what the published price actually covers.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:43 Ofcom Checks Phone Numbers
04:19 ElevenLabs Builds Voice Agents
08:00 Mistral Prices Voice Agents

Listen and follow: Apple Podcasts · Spotify · All platforms