Telecoms, AI in the call path, network engineering and the occasional strong opinion. Several times a week since 2009.
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…
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…
I had the pleasure of speaking to Parliamentarians at the Westminster Forum today, on all things Wholesale IP Voice, but specifically on IP migration…
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…
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…
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…
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…