New US Availability Zone
By Alex Lane Greetings, We are introducing a new availability zone, and this is going live next week at 21:00 2022-07-06 UTC in North Virginia, US. As previously, these proxies will be served by out.simwood.com…
Author Archives: Grahame Davies
Christmas & New Year 2021 Porting Desk
By Vicky Palmer 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…
External Porting Mayhem
By Bruce Clark Dear number porting enthusiasts, I’m sure it hasn’t escaped your attention that a lot of porting requests may have been taking a long time to get a response on, if a response…
How Compliant Are You?
By Grahame Davies We’ve always paid close attention to regulation and compliance in an industry which has had a reputation for playing fast and loose and paying scant regard for such matters. But there’s more…
A New Day at Simwood
By Grahame Davies The idea that Simwood might ever have a CEO other than Simon had rarely crossed my mind until discussions about how the future might look, and what my role in that might…
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…
How can we make porting easier?
by Bruce Clark As many of you are likely aware, the whole UK porting process is somewhat flawed in many areas. Whilst a large volume of the issues are out of our control, there are…
Porting Letters of Authorisation concluded
By Bruce Clark, Porting Supervisor After the initial deadline for LOA changes being pushed back a month, the relevant changes have been made and the new version will be in circulation from TODAY (Monday 7th…
Porting Letters of Authorisation, coming soon (Mon 7th Sept 2020)
By Bruce Clark, Porting Supervisor As you may have seen from the previous blog posts on Porting LOAs, the current “go-live” date for the new format is Monday 7th September 2020. It was pushed back…
Porting Letters of Authorisation (delayed)
By Bruce Clark, Porting Supervisor We have been informed that the Letter of Authorisation (LOA) changes are no longer taking place from Monday 3rd August and instead this has been pushed back to Monday 7th…