“Sorry Mummy, it was an accident!”
By Simon Woodhead Those are very well used words in our house. My 5 year old daughter is scarily bright and what any parent will relate to when I say “into everything”. An entire toilet…
Category Archives: Regulation
Are you risking your business with your carrier choice?
By Simon Woodhead Happy New Year! We find that the new year is traditionally the time when people like to dust-off relationships, reflect on the past year and put in place provision for the new.…
Head in the sand is no longer an option
By Simon Woodhead It has been a little while since I’ve opined on the Telecommunications Security Act 2021 and the all-important secondary legislation it enabled, the Electronic Communications (Security Measures) Regulations 2022. My most recent…
We’re losing track
By Pete Farmer We’ve previously blogged about restrictions countries are putting into place on presenting a local telephone number crossing the international gateway… For example: Germany, Norway, of course the French are mentioned often and…
An update on our inflation concerns
By Pete Farmer Avid readers of my musings on this blog may recall I opined on the subject of CPI recently. In that piece, I mentioned Simwood had written to the Minister regarding our concerns. …
CPI is just real-terms uplift, right?
by Pete Farmer Yes and no; a typical response from a telecommunications regulatory wonk like myself. Unfortunately, that answer, although wishy-washy, is true. Back when the Bank of England was killing it by hitting their…
And now the Germans…
by Grahame Davies Recently, we advised the Norwegians were blocking traffic presenting their telephone numbers at the international gateway, and now the Germans are up to something similar. That said, we should point out Section…
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…
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…
STIR/SHAKEN update
By Simon Woodhead & Thomas Hadden TLDR: Regulations are getting ever tighter around US termination traffic. Simwood Inc customers can expect increased levels of scrutiny and Know Your Customer (“KYC”) checks on contract renewals in…