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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.…
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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…
Christmas & New Year 2020 Porting Desk
By Bruce Clark Just like last year, Simwood’s porting desk will remain open and operational throughout the festive period, with the exception of the bank holidays of course. However, as many providers are not operational through our Business As Usual times, and some are imposing…
STIR/SHAKEN – things you need to know and do
By Simon Woodhead You’re hopefully aware that STIR/SHAKEN is coming in the USA and where we stand with it. See we’re 1%ers if not. As it stands, the 99% of eligible operators who are not yet in a position to comply have until 30 June…
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 (2020-11-25)
We will be updating our Managed A-Z Termination rates and codes on November 25th 2020. As usual, these changes are colour coded…
Reviewing Minimum Spend on Startup and Developer Accounts
By Simon Woodhead Startup accounts It is twelve months since…
Intelligent Solutions
STIR/SHAKEN – things you need to know and do
By Simon Woodhead You’re hopefully aware that STIR/SHAKEN is coming in the USA and where we stand with it. See we’re 1%ers…
Early Access: Simwood FTTP
By Simon Woodhead We’ve long offered ethernet services and internet…
SimCron2 – Sandro Gauci talks security
Don’t forget to subscribe on Vimeo or YouTube if you…
SimCron1 – Development and Roadmap Update
We’ve finally edited SimCron1 and it is below from Vimeo…
IP Network
Turning our network around
By Simon Woodhead It is almost 4 months since SimCon, and despite the pandemic, our team have been crazy busy. We’re going…
How will your voice service fare with the Internet turned off?
By Simon Woodhead What would you do if all your…
Regulation
Christmas & New Year 2020 Porting Desk
By Bruce Clark Just like last year, Simwood’s porting desk will remain open and operational throughout the festive period, with the exception…
Our response to the WVMR
By Simon Woodhead Following the series of recent blog posts…
WVMR Part 6 – Wrapping up
By Simon Woodhead We discussed recently what we’d like to see…
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…
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…