Telecoms, AI in the call path, network engineering and the occasional strong opinion. Several times a week since 2009.
By Simon Woodhead As a wholesale / carrier services provider, we offer 999 call routing and the ability to update the Emergency Handling Agency’s dat…
By Simon Woodhead Over many years I’ve been intolerant of lies and deceptions when it comes to “networks”. At one end of the scale you have the spivs…
By Peter Farmer In the first of the promised series of articles about the upcoming Telecommunications Security Regulations, I’m going to talk about t…
By Alex Lane Greetings, We are introducing a new availability zone, and this is going live next week at 21:00 2022-07-06 UTC in North Virginia, US. A…
By Simon Woodhead Please note our next rate update will unavoidably feature a 16% increase in the costs to call 999. Please note we don’t levy any mo…
By Peter Farmer One of the frustrations of being a telecommunications regulatory person is that stuff affecting Simwood and other providers today is…
By Simon Woodhead TLDR: If your calls to the USA are rejected by us, you need to clean up your traffic because we’ve tightened the screws on our cont…
By Peter Farmer One of the banes of life as someone that works in the field of telecommunications regulation is the expectation that we will somehow…
By Simon Woodhead It has been a while since I wrote about dirty origin surcharges and the harm they’re reaping. The last time in fact was after I spo…
By Simon Woodhead TLDR: We’ve changed bank details. Please update your records immediately as payments sent to old accounts may not reach us. You can…
By Simon Woodhead Wow, it felt odd writing ‘interesting year’ for the first time a few weeks ago, or at least as it seems. Actually a year on, a year…
By Vicky Palmer Just like last year, Simwood’s porting desk will remain open and operational throughout the festive period, with the exception of the…