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…
Category Archives: Voice
Pandemic 119
We have been asked by Ofcom to build 119 as a short-code as part of the NHS’ handling of Coronavirus. This is now live for all accounts and trunks with operator services enabled. As we…
Christmas & New Year 2019 Porting Desk
Our porting desk will be operating as usual over the festive period, with the exception of the bank holidays. When submitting a port request on the lead up to and over the festive period please…
Mexico Dialplan Changes
The Federal Telecommunications Institute of Mexico are introducing a new national numbering plan, changing a number of Mexican dial codes. Mexico has the country code +52 and, historically, Mexican mobile numbers all required a leading…
USA Caller ID changes – SHAKEN and STIR
by Thomas Hadden, COO Simwood Inc. Many of you may have heard of the changes being implemented in 2019-2020 by USA – ILEC/CLECs/IPES Carriers. The most common topic is SHAKEN/STIR. For our James Bond fans,…
Simwood Christmas Opening Hours
By Ateeq Rehman As we approach this wonderful festive time of the year, we would like to notify all our customers of our office opening hours and last port dates of 2018! The last porting…
Capacity, capacity, and a huge thank you!
By Simon Woodhead Over the course of 2018 we’ve quadrupled our outbound capacity to keep pace with customer demand; that is within the UK and excludes the USA which now represents a large proportion of…
US numbering now available (in testing)
As previously signalled, we’re really pleased to make US numbering available through the portal in testing. As it is in testing there are some known interface fixes to be deployed shortly and the provisioning experience…
GC6 CLI Update
With effect Wednesday 10th October we will be implementing the first phase of CLI changes for compliance with the revised General Condition 6 as previously discussed here Outbound calls that do not have any valid Caller…
Intelligently Rejecting Nuisance Calls since 2014
Back in 2014, we launched Intelligent Call Rejection, a Simwood take on the traditional ACR service, which filtered out calls where Caller ID Data is invalid or missing, whether or not it is merely “Withheld”…