Telecoms, AI in the call path, network engineering and the occasional strong opinion. Several times a week since 2009.
As some of you might know, our work on nuisance call prevention is a project I’m leading personally. We have such an awesome technology team nowadays…
Some of the privacy-minded readers of this blog might sense some irony in my use of Google’s codification of the corporate ethics it espoused until a…
Back in the day, when we began researching VoIP Fraud, we found the data told its own story. We began collecting data but it left breadcrumbs which,…
TL;DR some of your calls will be blocked in 7 days On this blog last week we explained the additional actions we were taking to combat nuisance calls…
TL;DR we’re blocking more calls, both inbound and outbound, to combat nuisance calls. Increasingly often, I find this industry like a parallel univer…
Over the years, Simwood has resisted making blanket CPI+x% price rises, instead focussing on ensuring that, where appropriate, our pricing reflects t…
In just three months at Simwood, I’ve learned that innovation isn’t just a buzzword here—it’s the very heartbeat of everything we do. I am Tekla, and…
Here we go again… although unlike the seminal film starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell, it’s ceased to be funny. Way back when, Ofcom updated th…
Hello! The latest Simwood Podcast is here! In this episode, Simon Woodhead (Founder & CEO), Charles Chance (CTO), and David Duffett (Corporate Ambass…
Happy New Year everyone! It’s no secret that we’re API-first. We’ve been this way since before some marketing-grad coined the term ‘API’. Back in 199…
As you all know, BYOC Inbound enables you to take an endpoint on the Simwood network to which you can route numbers from other networks. That endpoin…
It’s that time of year when I reflect on the year that’s coming to an end. Something I’ve done for well over a decade. 2024 overall has been a good o…