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VoIP DDoS Preparations – update

By Simon Woodhead It has been a week or so since we last updated on the emerging threat, so we wanted to update you. Whilst nobody (except George W B…

Ofcom’s new loyalty scheme

By Simon Woodhead Our Regulator has the Statutory power to fine you. Pretty scary right? Well, it is unless you’re the former state funded monopolist…

VoIP DDoS Preparations – Mandatory Testing

By Simon Woodhead Alongside recent posts here (this, this and this), shared with our mailing list, Status Page notifications drawing attention to the…

VoIP DDoS Preparations – Remember your Regulatory Obligations

By Peter Farmer There’s a bit of a fracas going on now, as we know from reports about sustained and targeted DDoS attacks against at least two voice…

VoIP DDoS Preparations – IMPORTANT customer update

By Simon Woodhead Following our update on Friday, we have been monitoring the evolving DDoS situation and leveraging our industry reach to get the in…

VoIP DDoS – Fail to Prepare…

By Simon Woodhead There’s a scenario that has kept me awake at night for getting on a decade. Regular readers will know this because I’ve banged on a…

Simwood Code Powers

By Simon Woodhead As you may have seen in today’s news, Simwood Networks, a subsidiary we formed last year, has been proposed by Ofcom for Code Power…

Our response to Equinox

By Simon Woodhead Ofcom are consulting on a proposed price reduction and loyalty scheme by Openreach for FTTP. We passionately believe in a fair and…

A bit of a confession…

By Simon Woodhead Sometimes, I get the chance prototype things outside of our CTO Charles and his loyal band of DevOps Ninjas. They’re always non-cri…

Affordability of broadband in the UK

By Peter Farmer In late July, the UK’s regulator, the Office of Communications (Ofcom) published a series of documents with some inter-related themes…

Reminder: No dirty surcharges

By Simon Woodhead With origination surcharges coming to UK fixed destinations from August 1st (following mobile on July 1st), we felt the need to rem…

Joining the surcharge party

By Simon Woodhead Before starting, let me be absolutely clear that the title does not mean we are about to start passing on surcharges to our custome…

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