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The Simwood blog.

Telecoms, AI in the call path, network engineering and the occasional strong opinion. Several times a week since 2009.

Free Teams Comes to Hosted

By Simon Woodhead Following the launch of Operator Connect on Carrier Services, we’re excited to announce it is coming to Hosted/Sipcentric in early…

2023 Accounts

By Simon Woodhead In keeping with tradition, we wanted to share our financial performance for 2023, now the audit is complete. Our customers value tr…

Why do UK telcos dislike Haiti?

By Pete Farmer In a recent blog about ITW, I said the UK’s dirty surcharge regime represented a transfer of wealth from the poorest nations on earth…

Teams Operator Connect in Beta

We’re delighted to let you know that those in our carrier services beta programme now have access to Teams Operator Connect (OC). Meanwhile, to avoid…

Life at Simwood

By Amy Morrison Hi everyone, as I have just landed back in Dublin after a fantastic time at ITW in Washington, I felt it was the right time to reflec…

ITW and a demo of the Potato on Tour

By Simon Woodhead We’re all safely back from Washington DC where we enjoyed a great ITW 2024. It was fantastic to see so many customers and friends i…

Reflections on ITW

By Peter Farmer It’s been a couple days since the team landed back at their various abodes after coming together for 3 days of meetings (and a little…

Simwood-EE interconnect live

By Simon Woodhead I’m taking a break from the madness of the very international ITW to share some exciting news in our home UK market. Our interconne…

Comms Business Cover Story – May 2024

We’re thrilled to announce that once again, we’re featured as the cover story in the May edition of Comms Business. Access the magazine or click on t…

The outage that wasn’t!

By Simon Woodhead I made a post on LinkedIn last night which is usually an event! This time the wokerati were nowhere to be seen, sensible people did…

Does your “carrier” have any infrastructure in the UK?

By Simon Woodhead In recent weeks I’ve poked fun at the dinosaurs in our sector, got cross at the lies and hypocrisy amongst others as well as ridicu…

Greed, lies and telecoms!

By Simon Woodhead I was drawn to this industry by the opportunity to leverage technology to make the world better. For those who don’t know our backs…