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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…

3 big wins for Simwood customers

By Simon Woodhead I get so tied up in the ‘today’ and the ‘tomorrow’ that I sometimes forget to look in the rear-view mirror. To be honest, when I do…

Call forwarding behaviour change

Following the introduction of origin surcharging, we’re having to make an emergency behaviour change to our wholesale platform where numbers are set…

The Clustercuss Begins!

By Simon Woodhead I’ve made no secret that I find origin surcharging a disgusting hijack of good intent. It is an embarrassing spectacle of economic…

CLI manipulation – Just Say No!

By Peter Farmer Those of us of a certain age will remember the “Just Say No!” campaign in relation to the war on drugs. Fast forward from Nancy Reaga…

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