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By Simon Woodhead We have really two peers in the UK, one to the north, one to the east. We know many of our customers have accounts with more than o…
By Simon Woodhead Our old friend Sandro Gauci (Sipvicious author and all round SIP security guru) has written up an issue with the XMPP component of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Due to the unfolding situation with Coronavirus (COVID-19), the Home Office (HO) has requested that all Communication Providers implement a charge ch…
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…
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…
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…
By Simon Woodhead My colleague Bruce just concluded an industry call (with the OTA) regarding the Openreach porting debacle. This confirmed that Open…
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…