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Simon Woodhead

“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.

Vulnerability in WiFi WPA2 (and VoIP encryption)

When people say that ‘encryption is pointless‘ with regards to VoIP calls, isn’t it a good job that they’re only ever using VoIP in a closed, secure…

End-user connectivity from Simwood

Regular readers will know the lengths we’ve gone to maximise the performance and uptime of our network. We operate nationally, and deploy the lowest…

CommCon 2018

By Simon Woodhead We’re delighted to confirm we’re the first Platinum Sponsor of a whole new telephony event in 2018 – CommCon. Almost a year ago, Da…

See you at Astricon 2017

We’ll be at Astricon again next week, speaking as usual, but for the first time exhibiting too following our US expansion. Do stop by to say hello an…

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