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WVMR Part 3 – What the hell is IPX?

By Simon Woodhead & Peter Farmer We discussed recently what we’d like to see from the Narrowband Review. Less than 24 hours later Ofcom published its…

WVMR Part 2 – CP Status – we need a new one!

By Simon Woodhead & Peter Farmer We discussed last week what we’d like to see from the Narrowband Review. Less than 24 hours later Ofcom published it…

WVMR Part 1 – Huawei bad for Internet; Huawei good for Voice over Internet

By Simon Woodhead & Peter Farmer We discussed last week what we’d like to see from the Narrowband Review. Less than 24 hours later Ofcom published it…

Turning our network around

By Simon Woodhead It is almost 4 months since SimCon, and despite the pandemic, our team have been crazy busy. We’re going to give you an update on a…

Our asks from the Narrowband Review

By Simon Woodhead By rights the 2020 Narrowband Market Review should now be under way and rumour was it’d land at the back-end of July. We’ve had a f…

How will your voice service fare with the Internet turned off?

By Simon Woodhead What would you do if all your voice providers were unreachable over the public Internet? Are you prepared and know it’ll make no di…

Collapsing Manchester

By Simon Woodhead In 2009, we opened a PoP in Manchester to provide essential and unique diversity from London. It is crazy to think that was 11 year…

Welcome Jared Smith

By Simon Woodhead We’re delighted to welcome industry heavy-hitter Jared Smith to the Simwood team. He’ll be SVP of Product, joining our Senior Manag…

Mexico Dial-code and rate changes

By Simon Woodhead Last July, we advised of changes to Mexico dialling, whereby the 1 was being dropped between the country code (52) and mobile numbe…

COVID-19 – Getting back on our collective feet

By Simon Woodhead It has been an interesting couple of months, but the signs are there that as an industry and economy we’re poised to begin the reco…

BTZero and why it matters to you

By Simon Woodhead Regular readers or SimCon attendees will have heard me talk about BTZero before. In short it is our initiative to remove BT from th…

SimCon4 and something new!

By Simon Woodhead We were lucky with the timing for SimCon3 – sneaking it in before COVID-19 really became a thing. Naturally we were worried about i…

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