Dirty surcharges now on more British Isles calls
By Simon Woodhead If you’ve followed our previous blogs on origin surcharges, what comes next will probably not surprise you. If this is the first you’ve heard, allow me to recap: We know not what…
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Massive consumer telecoms price rises
By Simon Woodhead Given the ongoing cost of living crisis, I’d like to shine the spotlight on another of this industry’s dirty little secrets. It isn’t our secret, we’ve never played along, but you and…
Protecting your customers from fraud
By Simon Woodhead It has been a week or so since we updated you on our plans for blocking inbound and outbound calls according to Ofcom’s DNO list. I wanted to circle back and look…
Blocking fraudulent calls
By Simon Woodhead Ofcom publishes the ‘DNO list’, a list of inbound only phone numbers from high profile organisations that should never originate outbound calls. These numbers are highly desirable to scammers and frequently used…
The noose is already round your neck!
By Simon Woodhead In ye olde days, when punishment by hanging was a thing, life wasn’t fun but there was one positive (beyond being there to witness one of our competitors’ last maintenance windows!). Being…
UK Numbering Pricing
By Simon Woodhead TLDR: All conserved and desirable 020 ranges (i.e. 020 7 and 020 8), and Conserved area codes, will now have a small set-up charge to discourage stock-piling. For many years we’ve had…
Norway CLI Restrictions
By Simon Woodhead In the latest act of the relentless re-localisation of telecoms, as domestic operators seek to re-enforce their monopolies, major Norwegian operators have today agreed amongst themselves to block all traffic entering Norway…
Dirty surcharges come to 03 and 08 (except here)
By Simon Woodhead In the latest twist to the sordid tail of origin surcharges, it seems to me that those emboldened by having got away with surcharging calls to fixed and mobile have decided to…
Partner Handset Auto-Provisioning
Today we are announcing the arrival of our new handset Auto-provisioning feature for our Simwood Partner Platform. Auto-provisioning uses the power of cloud-based technologies to help VoIP businesses automatically provision their VoIP devices. When bringing…
“How do I bypass anti-spoofing?”
By Simon Woodhead TLDR: We’re not going to answer that question, but we are going to explain why! The best way to avoid anti-spoofing procedures is simply not to spoof numbers! OK, this is a…