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Reminder: No dirty surcharges
By Simon Woodhead With origination surcharges coming to UK fixed destinations from August 1st (following mobile on July 1st), we felt the need to remind you that Simwood has taken the decision NOT to pass these surcharges on to our wholesale customers. We will maintain…
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3 big wins for Simwood customers
By Simon Woodhead I get so tied up in the ‘today’ and the ‘tomorrow’ that I sometimes forget to look in the rear-view mirror. To be honest, when I do it usually makes me cross to see lies and vanity putting fake polish on turds…
The future of Simwood
By Simon Woodhead When I founded this business nearly 25 years ago, it was the world’s first global gateway between the Internet and mobile phones – both of which looked like they might catch on. At the time, whilst closed-source, it was so uncharacteristically open…
Hello California
By Simon Woodhead As you know we’ve been quietly building Simwood Inc in the USA for the last few years. We’re a CLEC in 20-odd States now which is in itself unprecedented for a foreign-owned company as far as I can tell. But we’ve now…
USA update – we’re 1%ers
By Simon Woodhead We haven’t said much about the USA lately but we’ve been busy! Tom, Cathy and the whole team there are doing amazing things. We’re now at 23 Licensed CLECs, i.e. we’re fully Licensed in 23 of 50 States with others progressing well.…
WVMR Part 6 – Wrapping up
By Simon Woodhead We discussed recently what we’d like to see from the Narrowband Review. Less than 24 hours later Ofcom published its Wholesale Voice Markets Review 2021-2026. This is important and going to govern our industry for the next 5 years, and arguably reshape it forever.…
WVMR Part 5 – A prime opportunity to improve porting?
By Simon Woodhead We discussed recently what we’d like to see from the Narrowband Review. Less than 24 hours later Ofcom published its Wholesale Voice Markets Review 2021-2026. This is important and going to govern our industry for the next 5 years, and arguably reshape it forever.…
WVMR Part 4 – BT’s unchecked monopoly in porting
By Peter Farmer We discussed recently what we’d like to see from the Narrowband Review. Less than 24 hours later Ofcom published its Wholesale Voice Markets Review 2021-2026. This is important and going to govern our industry for the next 5 years, and arguably reshape it forever.…
WVMR Part 3 – What the hell is IPX?
By Simon Woodhead & Peter Farmer We discussed recently what we’d like to see from the Narrowband Review. Less than 24 hours later Ofcom published its Wholesale Voice Markets Review 2021-2026. This is important and going to govern our industry for the next 5 years, and arguably…
WVMR Part 2 – CP Status – we need a new one!
By Simon Woodhead & Peter Farmer We discussed last week what we’d like to see from the Narrowband Review. Less than 24 hours later Ofcom published its Wholesale Voice Markets Review 2021-2026. This is important and going to govern our industry for the next 5…
WVMR Part 1 – Huawei bad for Internet; Huawei good for Voice over Internet
By Simon Woodhead & Peter Farmer We discussed last week what we’d like to see from the Narrowband Review. Less than 24 hours later Ofcom published its Wholesale Voice Markets Review 2021-2026. This is important and going to govern our industry for the next 5…
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…
Wholesale rate update (2021-09-22) – with NO dirty surcharges
We will be updating our Managed A-Z Termination rates and codes on September 22nd 2021. As usual, these changes are colour coded in our full rate files available through the portal as below. This update includes the new UK geographic breakouts described here. Please note…
VoIP DDoS Preparations – update
By Simon Woodhead It has been a week or so since we last updated on the emerging threat, so we wanted to update you. Whilst nobody (except George W Bush) wants to be the one to call the end of hostilities, things appear to be…
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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 (2021-09-22) – with NO dirty surcharges
We will be updating our Managed A-Z Termination rates and codes on September 22nd 2021. As usual, these changes are colour coded…
Joining the surcharge party
By Simon Woodhead Before starting, let me be absolutely clear…
Origin based charging – what a mess!
By Simon Woodhead We wanted to update you on the…
Three & EE join the surcharging party
By Simon Woodhead Effective July 1st, in-line with Vodafone’s delayed…
Intelligent Solutions
A bit of a confession…
By Simon Woodhead Sometimes, I get the chance prototype things outside of our CTO Charles and his loyal band of DevOps Ninjas.…
Call forwarding behaviour change
Following the introduction of origin surcharging, we’re having to make…
IP Network
VoIP DDoS Preparations – update
By Simon Woodhead It has been a week or so since we last updated on the emerging threat, so we wanted to…
VoIP DDoS Preparations – Mandatory Testing
By Simon Woodhead Alongside recent posts here (this, this and…
VoIP DDoS Preparations – IMPORTANT customer update
By Simon Woodhead Following our update on Friday, we have…
Regulation
Ofcom’s new loyalty scheme
By Simon Woodhead Our Regulator has the Statutory power to fine you. Pretty scary right? Well, it is unless you’re the former…
VoIP DDoS Preparations – Remember your Regulatory Obligations
By Peter Farmer There’s a bit of a fracas going…
Affordability of broadband in the UK
By Peter Farmer In late July, the UK’s regulator, the…
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
Mexico Dial-code and rate changes
By Simon Woodhead Last July, we advised of changes to Mexico dialling, whereby the 1 was being dropped between the country code…
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…
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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…