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Peter Farmer

Change to Portability Charges

Over the years, Simwood has resisted making blanket CPI+x% price rises, instead focussing on ensuring that, where appropriate, our pricing reflects t…

CLI Groundhog Day

Here we go again… although unlike the seminal film starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell, it’s ceased to be funny. Way back when, Ofcom updated th…

Is your bi-lat partner actually your enemy?

By Pete Farmer I’ve had the privilege this year of speaking to senior people in many large international telcos, to build relationships and reveal Th…

Why do UK telcos dislike Haiti?

By Pete Farmer In a recent blog about ITW, I said the UK’s dirty surcharge regime represented a transfer of wealth from the poorest nations on earth…

Reflections on ITW

By Peter Farmer It’s been a couple days since the team landed back at their various abodes after coming together for 3 days of meetings (and a little…

The big 999 myth

By Peter Farmer Operate a voice service in the UK? Does it use telephone numbers? Then you have to provide access to 999/112. Oh, it’s over the top y…

The USA is losing the plot

By Peter Farmer Many of you know of my dual-nationality. Being both British and Canadian, means I give twice as much grief to Americans (and get twic…

On STIR/SHAKEN, Ofcom nailed it. On spoofing….?

By Peter Farmer By now, you’ll be aware of a Statement issued by our regulator, the Office of Communications, that kicked any form of STIR/SHAKEN or…

Our policy on “security questionnaires”

By Peter Farmer Simwood, like all networks and service providers with a turnover over £634k a year, have specific legal obligations with respect to s…

Domestic focus, global outlook

By Peter Farmer TL;DR: We’re now members of the International Telecommunications Union and look forward to working with fellow members, Governments,…

Are you inadvertently enabling scammers?

By Pete Farmer We’ve mentioned it before, but it may have gotten lost in the excitement of the TSRs and the recent CLI changes and the myriad of othe…

A change in our international focus

By Pete Farmer Once upon a time, everyone started offering international numbering services, mainly because they could at a technical level. A simple…

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