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Simon Woodhead

Heads on the chopping board!

By Peter Farmer In the first of the promised series of articles about the upcoming Telecommunications Security Regulations, I’m going to talk about t…

Emergency Call Charges

By Simon Woodhead Please note our next rate update will unavoidably feature a 16% increase in the costs to call 999. Please note we don’t levy any mo…

Blocking spam calls

By Simon Woodhead TLDR: If your calls to the USA are rejected by us, you need to clean up your traffic because we’ve tightened the screws on our cont…

Origin Surcharges Claim Another Victim – Price Rises Coming

By Simon Woodhead It has been a while since I wrote about dirty origin surcharges and the harm they’re reaping. The last time in fact was after I spo…

Important Banking Update

By Simon Woodhead TLDR: We’ve changed bank details. Please update your records immediately as payments sent to old accounts may not reach us. You can…

Thanks for another interesting year!

By Simon Woodhead Wow, it felt odd writing ‘interesting year’ for the first time a few weeks ago, or at least as it seems. Actually a year on, a year…

Which equilibrium will prevail?

By Pete Farmer Simwood’s views on the recent BT Openreach FTTP pricing (called the Equinox Offer) will be known to regular readers. Our response to O…

Speaking at Westminster Forum

I had the pleasure of speaking to Parliamentarians at the Westminster Forum today, on all things Wholesale IP Voice, but specifically on IP migration…

Ofcom’s Christmas Gift to You All

By Pete Farmer Readers who are members of Comms Council UK will have a passing familiarity with what’s coming next month, as there has been a few web…

Good news for AWS customers

By Simon Woodhead There’s a lot that goes on in Simwood and we move fast. Quite often, what’d be earth shattering global PR justifying an entire prop…

Have you been shafted yet?

By Simon Woodhead We’ve made our views on UK origin surcharges pretty clear: they’re a filthy money grab that we believe is going to harm competition…

Management reshuffle

By Simon Woodhead Whenever I post a blog about management changes, the click through rate is astonishing which I could take the wrong way! Today’s po…

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