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The Simwood blog.

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

WVMR Part 4 – BT’s unchecked monopoly in porting

By Peter Farmer We discussed recently what we’d like to see from the Narrowband Review. Less than 24 hours later Ofcom published its Wholesale Voice…

Porting Letters of Authorisation concluded

By Bruce Clark, Porting Supervisor After the initial deadline for LOA changes being pushed back a month, the relevant changes have been made and the…

WVMR Part 3 – What the hell is IPX?

By Simon Woodhead & Peter Farmer We discussed recently what we’d like to see from the Narrowband Review. Less than 24 hours later Ofcom published its…

Your VoIP Platform for Life

By Jared Smith One of the things that has always attracted me to Simwood has been the company’s passionate focus on improving the customer experience…

WVMR Part 2 – CP Status – we need a new one!

By Simon Woodhead & Peter Farmer We discussed last week what we’d like to see from the Narrowband Review. Less than 24 hours later Ofcom published it…

WVMR Part 1 – Huawei bad for Internet; Huawei good for Voice over Internet

By Simon Woodhead & Peter Farmer We discussed last week what we’d like to see from the Narrowband Review. Less than 24 hours later Ofcom published it…

Porting Letters of Authorisation, coming soon (Mon 7th Sept 2020)

By Bruce Clark, Porting Supervisor As you may have seen from the previous blog posts on Porting LOAs, the current “go-live” date for the new format i…

Turning our network around

By Simon Woodhead It is almost 4 months since SimCon, and despite the pandemic, our team have been crazy busy. We’re going to give you an update on a…

Our asks from the Narrowband Review

By Simon Woodhead By rights the 2020 Narrowband Market Review should now be under way and rumour was it’d land at the back-end of July. We’ve had a f…

Porting Letters of Authorisation (delayed)

By Bruce Clark, Porting Supervisor We have been informed that the Letter of Authorisation (LOA) changes are no longer taking place from Monday 3rd Au…

How will your voice service fare with the Internet turned off?

By Simon Woodhead What would you do if all your voice providers were unreachable over the public Internet? Are you prepared and know it’ll make no di…

Porting Letters of Authorisation

By Bruce Clark, Porting Supervisor Over the past few months, Offta (and the NPP&CG (Number Port Process & Commercial Group)) have been talking about…