We will be updating our Managed A-Z Termination rates and codes on September 25th 2023. As usual, these changes are colour coded in our full rate files available through the portal as below. Unlike other…

By Simon Woodhead As a reminder, in our full rate sheets you will find what we call the ‘minimum’ and ‘increment’ for each breakout. for the UK this tends to be 1 and 1, more…

By Peter Farmer Simwood, like all networks and service providers with a turnover over £634k a year, have specific legal obligations with respect to security. One of those (regulation 7 of the Electronic Communications (Security…

By Simon Woodhead We don’t do ‘special offers’ but I wanted to grab your attention, and the title will be karmic in certain quarters! I mentioned last month how we were pushing for Zero Defect…

By Simon Woodhead We’ve just filed 2022’s accounts for Simwood Group plc and I wanted to discuss them here in the interests of transparency and clarity.  Firstly, while we’re a 27 year old company, Simwood…

By Simon Woodhead ITW takes place in Washington DC in mid-May and we’ll be there in force for the duration and a few days before. If any customers, peers or prospects want to meet with…

By Simon Woodhead The annual revision to carrier interconnect rates is upon us, effective April 1st 2023. As warned last year, and indeed as raised with the Minister, in addition to the grotesque CPI+3.9% shenanigans,…

By Simon Woodhead As you may, or may not be aware, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a long-standing bank to the global technology sector has just suffered a bank run, much like those seen in the…

By Simon Woodhead It won’t have escaped anybody’s attention that termination rates have been more volatile lately and I thought it would be helpful to explain why. Before doing so though, I need to stress…

By Simon Woodhead We don’t go in for annually escalating prices like some, or even annual reviews, and in reality operate in a market where prices are generally decreasing over time. I learned from an…