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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.

Porting features (and skirmishes)

By Simon Woodhead One of our areas of focus at the moment is automation and porting has been getting some love, as our volumes continue to accelerate…

What a difference a year makes

By Simon Woodhead It is pretty much a year since I stepped back into the business. Sure, the announcement came in late November but as you’ll expect…

Sri Lanka basis change

By Simon Woodhead As a reminder, in our full rate sheets you will find what we call the ‘minimum’ and ‘increment’ for each breakout. for the UK this…

Our policy on “security questionnaires”

By Peter Farmer Simwood, like all networks and service providers with a turnover over £634k a year, have specific legal obligations with respect to s…

More call tariff options (including NPA-XX)

By Simon Woodhead Given our position of being a licensed CLEC in 21 States of the USA, and having numbering in 100% of the USA, as well as our evolut…

Domestic focus, global outlook

By Peter Farmer TL;DR: We’re now members of the International Telecommunications Union and look forward to working with fellow members, Governments,…

Microsoft Teams Update

By Charles Chance I wanted to update you on our Microsoft Teams project because Phase 1 is nearly complete and we’ll be getting in touch with custome…

Latency Based Routing

By Simon Woodhead It has been too long since I got super excited about a new development, and couldn’t wait to tell you about it. That doesn’t mean w…

Our stance on “dialler”

By Peter Farmer Everyone at Simwood is very clear on the nuances of our policy towards diallers, having suffered me droning on about compliance issue…

Ireland ‘Special Offer’

By Simon Woodhead We don’t do ‘special offers’ but I wanted to grab your attention, and the title will be karmic in certain quarters! I mentioned las…

Number Range Hosting

Hi everyone, I joined Simwood a few weeks ago as Sales Director and this is my first blog. I’m pretty sure I’ll know many of you already but for thos…

If the BBC did DDoS…

Comms Council UK just put out an e-mail to its members, saying one of its own has been suffering from a DDoS attack for several hours affecting its U…