Straight-talking, in writing

The Simwood blog.

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

Which equilibrium will prevail?

By Pete Farmer Simwood’s views on the recent BT Openreach FTTP pricing (called the Equinox Offer) will be known to regular readers. Our response to O…

Speaking at Westminster Forum

I had the pleasure of speaking to Parliamentarians at the Westminster Forum today, on all things Wholesale IP Voice, but specifically on IP migration…

Ofcom’s Christmas Gift to You All

By Pete Farmer Readers who are members of Comms Council UK will have a passing familiarity with what’s coming next month, as there has been a few web…

External Porting Mayhem

By Bruce Clark Dear number porting enthusiasts, I’m sure it hasn’t escaped your attention that a lot of porting requests may have been taking a long…

How Compliant Are You?

By Grahame Davies We’ve always paid close attention to regulation and compliance in an industry which has had a reputation for playing fast and loose…

Good news for AWS customers

By Simon Woodhead There’s a lot that goes on in Simwood and we move fast. Quite often, what’d be earth shattering global PR justifying an entire prop…

Have you been shafted yet?

By Simon Woodhead We’ve made our views on UK origin surcharges pretty clear: they’re a filthy money grab that we believe is going to harm competition…

A New Day at Simwood

By Grahame Davies The idea that Simwood might ever have a CEO other than Simon had rarely crossed my mind until discussions about how the future migh…

Management reshuffle

By Simon Woodhead Whenever I post a blog about management changes, the click through rate is astonishing which I could take the wrong way! Today’s po…

Important: Bank Details Change Part 2

By Jake Taylor It’s nice to be unchained from my calculator for a while to write a blog post, and one about such a fun and exhilarating topic. Simon…

Grannies vs BT

By Peter Farmer OK, so the headline talks about Grannies… disappointingly we are actually talking about a class action of all landline only customers…

VoIP DDoS Preparations – update

By Simon Woodhead It has been a week or so since we last updated on the emerging threat, so we wanted to update you. Whilst nobody (except George W B…