Featured
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…
More Articles
Wholesale rate update (2020-04-09)
We will be updating our Managed A-Z Termination rates and codes on April 9th 2020. Comparing rates? Rate filesOur rates can be downloaded below. Please see our website to understand our different service levels. You can check (and change) your current service level in the “Commercial”…
Warning: your calls are about to be rejected
By Simon Woodhead We’ve banged on about CLI filtering for years. Ofcom GC C6 even mandates it, if anyone – including Ofcom – cared to interpret it as originally written. Invalid CLI is bad, often the result of mis-configuration and ultimately harms end users. More…
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 (2020-04-09)
We will be updating our Managed A-Z Termination rates and codes on April 9th 2020. Comparing rates? Rate filesOur rates can be…
COVID-19 change to 101 billing
Due to the unfolding situation with Coronavirus (COVID-19), the Home…
United Arab Emirates Mobile
We’re been notified that Emirati mobile operators have implemented an…
Intelligent Solutions
Warning: your calls are about to be rejected
By Simon Woodhead We’ve banged on about CLI filtering for years. Ofcom GC C6 even mandates it, if anyone – including Ofcom…
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
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…