Telecoms, AI in the call path, network engineering and the occasional strong opinion. Several times a week since 2009.
By Simon Woodhead TLDR: All conserved and desirable 020 ranges (i.e. 020 7 and 020 8), and Conserved area codes, will now have a small set-up charge…
By Simon Woodhead In the latest act of the relentless re-localisation of telecoms, as domestic operators seek to re-enforce their monopolies, major N…
By Simon Woodhead In the latest twist to the sordid tail of origin surcharges, it seems to me that those emboldened by having got away with surchargi…
Today we are announcing the arrival of our new handset Auto-provisioning feature for our Simwood Partner Platform. Auto-provisioning uses the power o…
By Pete Farmer Once upon a time, everyone started offering international numbering services, mainly because they could at a technical level. A simple…
TLDR: We’re not going to answer that question, but we are going to explain why! The best way to avoid anti-spoofing procedures is simply not to spoof…
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…