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By Simon Woodhead It has been a little while since I’ve opined on the Telecommunications Security Act 2021 and the all-important secondary legislatio…
By Pete Farmer We’ve previously blogged about restrictions countries are putting into place on presenting a local telephone number crossing the inter…
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 wri…
By Simon Woodhead It’s that time of year when I get to wish you and your families a fantastic Festive Season and to thank you, where you have, for be…
By Simon Woodhead Getting back into the saddle and seeing this industry with fresh eyes, I realise nearly everything we’ve done over the last 26 year…
By Frazer Barnett There are some of the more esoteric aspects of the Simwood service which I feel do not get enough attention. Channels, while viewed…
By Simon Woodhead Last October I posted that I was stepping down as CEO and my long-standing colleague Grahame Davies would be replacing me. Today, I…
By Simon Woodhead TLDR: We’ve added even more directs so most of your UK fixed, mobile and non-geographic calls will route directly to their destinat…
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 yo…
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…
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…
By Simon Woodhead Ofcom publishes the ‘DNO list’, a list of inbound only phone numbers from high profile organisations that should never originate ou…