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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…
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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…
Wholesale rate update (2019-05-02)
We will be updating our Managed A-Z Termination rates and codes on May 2nd 2019. Why not send us your CDRs from other operators and compare what we’d have charged you? Rate filesOur rates can be downloaded below. Please see our new website to understand our different service levels. You…
Interoperability? Meh!
By Simon Woodhead We’re noticing a worrying trend in UK telecoms that is evidenced by a rise in what we call tickets about ‘weird shit’. The days of a tax-payer funded monopoly are behind us – no, honestly they are, you and I just misunderstand…
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 (2019-05-02)
We will be updating our Managed A-Z Termination rates and codes on May 2nd 2019. Why not send us your CDRs from other operators and…
Simwood Community Slack workspace, Status Page and “RFO” Handling
By Grahame Davies If there’s one thing a lot of…
Please Update Our US Payment Details
We’ve amended our bank details to reflect changes made to…
Intelligent Solutions
Interoperability? Meh!
By Simon Woodhead We’re noticing a worrying trend in UK telecoms that is evidenced by a rise in what we call tickets…
US Update & Global Numbering
By Simon Woodhead Numbering We’re really pleased to confirm that…
SimCon2 – Simwood Architecture Part 2
Simon Woodhead and Ross McKillop take us through Simwood Architecture.
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
GC C6 Caller ID Confusion
by Ross McKillop When Ofcom announced General Condition C6, and the promise that it would ensure valid Network Numbers that could identify…
Ofcom enforces Ofcom’s rules
By Simon Woodhead Please forgive the cynicism the title conveys…
GC6 Customer Update
Whilst the implementation of the new CLI policies around General…
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
Simwood Christmas Opening Hours
By Ateeq Rehman As we approach this wonderful festive time of the year, we would like to notify all our customers of…
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…
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…