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

Are you risking your business with your carrier choice?

By Simon Woodhead Happy New Year! We find that the new year is traditionally the time when people like to dust-off relationships, reflect on the past…

Head in the sand is no longer an option

By Simon Woodhead It has been a little while since I’ve opined on the Telecommunications Security Act 2021 and the all-important secondary legislatio…

We’re losing track

By Pete Farmer We’ve previously blogged about restrictions countries are putting into place on presenting a local telephone number crossing the inter…

An update on our inflation concerns

By Pete Farmer Avid readers of my musings on this blog may recall I opined on the subject of CPI recently. In that piece, I mentioned Simwood had wri…

Thanks for a great 2022!

By Simon Woodhead It’s that time of year when I get to wish you and your families a fantastic Festive Season and to thank you, where you have, for be…

I’ve got it all wrong

By Simon Woodhead Getting back into the saddle and seeing this industry with fresh eyes, I realise nearly everything we’ve done over the last 26 year…

Not all channels are equal

By Frazer Barnett There are some of the more esoteric aspects of the Simwood service which I feel do not get enough attention. Channels, while viewed…

I’m back!

By Simon Woodhead Last October I posted that I was stepping down as CEO and my long-standing colleague Grahame Davies would be replacing me. Today, I…

We’ve come up with a great deal!

By Frazer Barnett TL:DR – Simwood Launches a new Dealer product. It’s been a while now since Pete, our Chief Compliance Officer, started talking abou…

How many links in your chain?

By Simon Woodhead TLDR: We’ve added even more directs so most of your UK fixed, mobile and non-geographic calls will route directly to their destinat…

CPI is just real-terms uplift, right?

by Pete Farmer Yes and no; a typical response from a telecommunications regulatory wonk like myself. Unfortunately, that answer, although wishy-washy…

And now the Germans…

by Grahame Davies Recently, we advised the Norwegians were blocking traffic presenting their telephone numbers at the international gateway, and now…