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Thank you TADHack Global 2019!
By Simon Woodhead TADHack Global is now over although it’ll be a few days before we all get home. It has been a wild ride and we’ve loved it. The event takes place globally (clue in the name I suppose) and is a weekend hackathon…
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Hosted PBX comes to Simwood
By Simon Woodhead We’ve wanted to offer you multi-tenant own-branded hosted PBX for years. To be frank, we’ve tried a few solutions but they’ve never been adequate, and building it the Simwood way has never happened. If I look around the market, many are simply…
Humungous, monster rate update!
By Simon Woodhead We mentioned a few weeks ago how we were tweaking our rate-setting algorithms and you’ve hopefully noticed some changes to termination rates since. Separately, Grahame has kindly taken care of the formalities around our forthcoming MSA and category changes. That leaves me…
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…
Christmas & New Year 2019 Porting Desk
Our porting desk will be operating as usual over the festive period, with the exception of the bank holidays. When submitting a port request on the lead up to and over the festive period please be aware that lead times may need to be extended,…
Wholesale rate update (2019-12-04)
We will be updating our Managed A-Z Termination rates and codes on December 4th 2019. The reductions continue – please see “Are we first in route?“. Please note the published files have been reissued as at 13h53 on December 3rd. There were erroneously a number of UK NGCS…
API
Realtime Call Webhooks
We recently introduced a number of webhooks, and realtime Call Control functionality allowing you to end calls in progress via the API.…
Intelligently Rejecting Nuisance Calls since 2014
Back in 2014, we launched Intelligent Call Rejection, a Simwood…
Commercial
Wholesale rate update (2019-12-04)
We will be updating our Managed A-Z Termination rates and codes on December 4th 2019. The reductions continue – please see “Are we first in…
Simwood Partner – our plans for Sipcentric
By Simon Woodhead It has been a week since we…
Switch to Direct Debit and get 30 days credit
We’ve offered Direct Debit as a payment option you can…
Intelligent Solutions
Management Changes
By Simon Woodhead I’m delighted to announce some fairly significant changes to our organisational structure. One of the main appeals for us…
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…
Inbound Calls and Availability Zones
Many of our customers connect to us in multiple sites,…
End-user connectivity from Simwood
Regular readers will know the lengths we’ve gone to maximise…
Regulation
020 (4)
By Ross McKillop There is a common misconception that London had two area codes, 0207 and 0208, and then 0203 was added.…
Re-monopolisation through the Secret Club – Part 2
By Simon Woodhead In 2017, I articulated in a blog…
Ofcom Consultations – the future of interconnect and porting
Ofcom are presently consulting on two topics very close to…
Security
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…
USA Caller ID changes – SHAKEN and STIR
by Thomas Hadden, COO Simwood Inc. Many of you may…
PSD2 compliance and some great new anti-fraud features
As we mentioned last week, the new Payment Services Directive seems…
Voice
Christmas & New Year 2019 Porting Desk
Our porting desk will be operating as usual over the festive period, with the exception of the bank holidays. When submitting a…
Mexico Dialplan Changes
The Federal Telecommunications Institute of Mexico are introducing a new…
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…
White Papers
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…