Wholesale rate update (2020-07-10)
We will be updating our Managed A-Z Termination rates and codes on July 10th 2020. As usual, these changes are colour coded in our full rate files available through the portal as below. Following our…
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Collapsing Manchester
By Simon Woodhead In 2009, we opened a PoP in Manchester to provide essential and unique diversity from London. It is crazy to think that was 11 years ago!! In that time it has become…
Welcome Jared Smith
By Simon Woodhead We’re delighted to welcome industry heavy-hitter Jared Smith to the Simwood team. He’ll be SVP of Product, joining our Senior Management Team on Monday July 6th. Jared is an open-source veteran, formerly…
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 (52) and mobile numbers. This change had a 30 day window which was…
COVID-19 – Getting back on our collective feet
By Simon Woodhead It has been an interesting couple of months, but the signs are there that as an industry and economy we’re poised to begin the recovery. How long it takes, or how fast…
BTZero and why it matters to you
By Simon Woodhead Regular readers or SimCon attendees will have heard me talk about BTZero before. In short it is our initiative to remove BT from the routing of our traffic to the largest extent…
SimCon4 and something new!
By Simon Woodhead We were lucky with the timing for SimCon3 – sneaking it in before COVID-19 really became a thing. Naturally we were worried about it, and obviously we took a lot of precautions…
Track and Trace Spoofing
By Simon Woodhead Spoofing phone numbers is a reality on international networks, and in a UK context it is something we’ve raised time and time and time again. So you can imagine our concern to…
Reviewing Minimum Spend on Startup and Developer Accounts
By Simon Woodhead Startup accounts It is twelve months since we increased our wholesale minimum spend on Startup accounts from £100 to £250 per month and time to review it again. Our rationale for the…
Making calls 97% cheaper!
By Simon Woodhead Did you know, there are now 30 countries around the world with some form of origin-based pricing? In other words, 30 destination countries where the charge for a call depends not just…