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COVID-19 impact on UK & USA voice traffic

By Simon Woodhead A number of you have asked what has been happening on the Simwood network throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. A lot of this is simple…

Porting Policy update

By Simon Woodhead Background and ‘Why’ In 2018 we modified our porting policy, attempting to redress the disproportional cost of the few exports we d…

CLI filtering update

By Simon Woodhead Last week we sent a mail and posted a blog about our GC C6 filtering on both CLI and dialled numbers globally. This is an update on…

Warning: your calls are about to be rejected

We’ve banged on about CLI filtering for years. Ofcom GC C6 even mandates it, if anyone – including Ofcom – cared to interpret it as originally writte…

COVID-19 change to 101 billing

Due to the unfolding situation with Coronavirus (COVID-19), the Home Office (HO) has requested that all Communication Providers implement a charge ch…

Openreach porting – final update

By Simon Woodhead Further to yesterday’s ‘“plan B” post relating to the issue of “BT halting porting operations?”, we are in receipt of more informat…

Openreach porting ‘plan B’

By Simon Woodhead Further to yesterday’s update, and characteristically later than promised, we’ve had an update from BT on their plans for Number Po…

Building scalable video conferencing

By Simon Woodhead We announced last week how we’d spun up https://meet.simwood.com to help customers and the community through these times. Others ha…

Further porting update

By Simon Woodhead My colleague Bruce just concluded an industry call (with the OTA) regarding the Openreach porting debacle. This confirmed that Open…

Porting update

By Simon Woodhead Please see a further update on this situation here (March 25th) This morning we posted some alarming news and our letter to Ofcom r…

BT to halt porting operations? An open letter to Ofcom

By Simon Woodhead Please also see an operational update (March 24th) since this post. And a further update (March 25th). One thing I’ve noticed in th…

A helping hand

By Simon Woodhead We’ve talked already about the things we’re doing to try and help and we’re blown away by the response they’ve received, especially…

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