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Simon Woodhead

Thanks for 2017!

By Simon Woodhead As we near Christmas I wanted to say a huge thank you to all of our customers and wish you and your families the very best for the…

New stack reflections (and a new feature)

By Simon Woodhead We put our new stack live this weekend and now nearly all traffic is flowing through it. Operationally things went well considering…

We ported in 20x as many numbers as we ported out in November

By Simon Woodhead I haven’t blogged about number portability in a while, largely because it makes me intensely cross! However, I took a look at some…

New voice stack going live

It is six months since we put our new voice stack out in open beta, our interop documents were updated for the new IP addresses and codecs ten months…

“Gazillions” of events per second

By Simon Woodhead Some years ago ‘me too’ liked to claim that the 200-odd checks we make per call for fraud prevention wouldn’t scale. I made the poi…

Save the date – SimCon1

When we announced our move to Bristol, we hinted at a ‘secret feature’. Well, the builders are in and making great progress fitting the building out…

Festive period operations desk (inc. porting)

Many other operators are closing their porting desks over this Festive Season, so we will be following suit. Our last day for porting will be Thursda…

Direct Debit changes

Those of you with Direct Debit mandates in place on your account (the majority now!) will have noticed a slight change to the way we operate today. W…

Reorganisation

By Simon Woodhead Today, Simwood eSMS Limited and its USA-based operation Simwood Inc. became wholly owned subsidiaries of Simwood Group PLC. This ha…

Trunk pricing (effective 2018-01-01)

Please note we are changing our pricing for SIP trunks effective January 1st 2018. Details can be found in our non-call rate sheet. You will know tha…

101, 111 & 105 now available

For accounts and trunks that have ‘access codes’ enabled, the non-emergency Police (101), non-emergency NHS (111) and power cut (105) numbers will no…

Comms Business Cover Story – November 2017

We’re really pleased to again be the cover story in November’s Comms Business. Please see the magazine or click on the image to the right to read it.

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