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Simwood Partner – our plans for Sipcentric

By Simon Woodhead It has been a week since we announced the acquisition of Sipcentric and Birchills Telecom. I promised that I would update you on ou…

EU local-breakout / Origin Based Surcharges

By Simon Woodhead For some time now EU traffic has mostly been breaking out in-country, i.e. rather than being dumped on an international carrier and…

Hosted PBX comes to Simwood

By Simon Woodhead We’ve wanted to offer you multi-tenant own-branded hosted PBX for years. To be frank, we’ve tried a few solutions but they’ve never…

We’re sponsoring TADHack Global

By Kathleen King We’re super excited to be sponsoring TADHack Global next month (11-13 October). It is a global event, of hackathons in 8 cities arou…

Asterisk Training in Bristol

The legend they call Duffett is running his excellent Advanced Asterisk Training in Bristol soon. We’d heartily recommend his training, especially wh…

Re-monopolisation through the Secret Club – Part 2

By Simon Woodhead In 2017, I articulated in a blog post what I’d long said in private. In short, how there is no IP interconnect to BT subject to pri…

Announcing webhooks!

By Simon Woodhead OK, so webhooks aren’t completely new – we’ve had them for certain API functions, notably incoming fax and SMS, and we significantl…

Switch to Direct Debit and get 30 days credit

We’ve offered Direct Debit as a payment option you can configure in the portal for donkey’s years now, and the majority of our payments by value come…

Are we first in route?

By Simon Woodhead Our humungous new rate update is live today (9th August 2019) and it marks the beginning of a great experiment – to apply initial m…

Humungous, monster rate update!

By Simon Woodhead We mentioned a few weeks ago how we were tweaking our rate-setting algorithms and you’ve hopefully noticed some changes to terminat…

Ofcom: Marking their own homework

It is that time of year when Ofcom gives us their school report, prepared of course by Ofcom, in the form of a number of annual market reports. They…

Pricing Strategy – we need your help

By Simon Woodhead We wrote recently how, for customers and prospective customers, comparing wholesale prices without actual traffic or retrospective…

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