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Remote working at Simwood – free stuff!
By Simon Woodhead Spoiler: There’s some free stuff in here we hope will help you! As mentioned in our latest COVID-19 update, we’re now working fully remotely. We’re lucky as not only are we in an industry that can, we’re in the industry that enables…
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Reviewing Minimum Spend on Startup and Developer Accounts
By Simon Woodhead Startup accounts It is twelve months since we increased our wholesale minimum spend on Startup accounts from £100 to £250 per month and time to review it again. Our rationale for the increase last year was that for proper wholesale business, this…
Wholesale rate update (2020-06-01)
We will be updating our Managed A-Z Termination rates and codes on June 1st 2020. As usual, these changes are colour coded in our full rate files available through the portal as below. Making calls 97% cheaper! Rate filesOur rates can be downloaded below. Please…
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
Reviewing Minimum Spend on Startup and Developer Accounts
By Simon Woodhead Startup accounts It is twelve months since we increased our wholesale minimum spend on Startup accounts from £100 to…
Wholesale rate update (2020-06-01)
We will be updating our Managed A-Z Termination rates and…
COVID-19 change to 101 billing
Due to the unfolding situation with Coronavirus (COVID-19), the Home…
Intelligent Solutions
Making calls 97% cheaper!
By Simon Woodhead Did you know, there are now 30 countries around the world with some form of origin-based pricing? In other…
Automated GBP top-ups
By Simon Woodhead Effective immediately, any GBP prepayments sent to…
What a right CPaaS!
By Simon Woodhead Some people use the c-word conversationally. I…
Introducing our ‘Carrier’ rate deck
By Simon Woodhead TLDR; if you have termination volume, but…
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
Openreach porting – final update
By Simon Woodhead Further to yesterday’s ‘“plan B” post relating to the issue of “BT halting porting operations?”, we are in receipt…
Openreach porting ‘plan B’
By Simon Woodhead Further to yesterday’s update, and characteristically later…
Further porting update
By Simon Woodhead My colleague Bruce just concluded an industry…
Security
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
By Simon Woodhead Given the news flow, we felt it was appropriate to update you on where we were with the preparations…
Simwood Awarded ISO 9001 and ISO 27001
by Simon Woodhead Following back-to-back audits, I’m delighted to report…
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
Pandemic 119
We have been asked by Ofcom to build 119 as a short-code as part of the NHS’ handling of Coronavirus. This is…
Christmas & New Year 2019 Porting Desk
Our porting desk will be operating as usual over the…
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…
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…