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Simwood Awarded ISO 9001 and ISO 27001
by Simon Woodhead Following back-to-back audits, I’m delighted to report that Simwood has been certified to two ISO standards! Firstly, ISO 9001:2015 is the international standard for Quality Management Systems. ISO 9001:2015 “helps ensure that customers get consistent, good quality products and services”. Fundamentally it…
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Ofcom Consultations – the future of interconnect and porting
Ofcom are presently consulting on two topics very close to our hearts. These are first consultations, there should be others, and we’d encourage all customers to share their opinion, or submit support for ours. These are really important consultations that determine the future of our…
We’re Hiring!
As a rapidly growing company, we are always on the lookout for exceptional talent to join our team. Whilst we have a policy to not poach staff working for our customers, our blog reaches far and wide, so here is a heads-up on the current…
US Update & Global Numbering
By Simon Woodhead Numbering We’re really pleased to confirm that the US numbering porting interface is available in beta. Thanks to those customers who couldn’t wait and have been testing it. We’re pleasantly surprised by the thirst for US numbering, notably since our US COO…
Mexico Dialplan Changes
The Federal Telecommunications Institute of Mexico are introducing a new national numbering plan, changing a number of Mexican dial codes. Mexico has the country code +52 and, historically, Mexican mobile numbers all required a leading 1 before the subscriber number when dialled internationally (so a…
Wholesale rate update (2019-07-24)
We will be updating our Managed A-Z Termination rates and codes on July 24th 2019. Comparing rates? Rate filesOur rates can be downloaded below. Please see our new website to understand our different service levels. You can check (and change) your current service level in the “Commercial” tab of the portal.…
API
Intelligently Rejecting Nuisance Calls since 2014
Back in 2014, we launched Intelligent Call Rejection, a Simwood take on the traditional ACR service, which filtered out calls where Caller…
Inbound Calls and Availability Zones
Many of our customers connect to us in multiple sites,…
Inbound HTTP(S) API (“Webhooks”)
We currently have two APIs which send HTTP POST requests…
Commercial
Wholesale rate update (2019-07-24)
We will be updating our Managed A-Z Termination rates and codes on July 24th 2019. Comparing rates? Rate filesOur rates can be downloaded below. Please…
Simwood Community Slack workspace, Status Page and “RFO” Handling
By Grahame Davies If there’s one thing a lot of…
Intelligent Solutions
Comparing our Rates
By Simon Woodhead We’re very fortunate in that difficult conversations about our rates are rare, and with established customers they’re almost non-existent.…
IP Network
FREE IP Transit!
As a special offer for customers with paid Direct Connects* to Simwood, or ordering new ones before September 30th, we’re now offering…
Regulation
Ofcom Consultations – the future of interconnect and porting
Ofcom are presently consulting on two topics very close to our hearts. These are first consultations, there should be others, and we’d…
USA Caller ID changes – SHAKEN and STIR
by Thomas Hadden, COO Simwood Inc. Many of you may…
GC C6 Caller ID Confusion
by Ross McKillop When Ofcom announced General Condition C6, and…
Security
PSD2 compliance and some great new anti-fraud features
As we mentioned last week, the new Payment Services Directive seems to have taken the industry a little by surprise, and basic compliance…
Voice
Mexico Dialplan Changes
The Federal Telecommunications Institute of Mexico are introducing a new national numbering plan, changing a number of Mexican dial codes. Mexico has…
Simwood Christmas Opening Hours
By Ateeq Rehman As we approach this wonderful festive time…
Capacity, capacity, and a huge thank you!
By Simon Woodhead Over the course of 2018 we’ve quadrupled…
US numbering now available (in testing)
As previously signalled, we’re really pleased to make US numbering…
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Our VoIP Fraud presentation at LINX84
We had the pleasure of speaking at the London Internet Exchange’s LINX84 meeting on February 17th regarding our VoIP Fraud research. Below…
Simwood VoIP Fraud Analysis – get your copy now
As regular readers will know, Simwood has operated a VoIP…
Get your DNS in order!
With the Olympics ever closer and our warnings over commodity…