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

USA update – we’re 1%ers

By Simon Woodhead We haven’t said much about the USA lately but we’ve been busy! Tom, Cathy and the whole team there are doing amazing things. We’re…

SimCron1 – Development and Roadmap Update

We’ve finally edited SimCron1 and it is below from Vimeo (also on YouTube). We really didn’t have much clue what we were doing so please be gentle wi…

Our response to the WVMR

By Simon Woodhead Following the series of recent blog posts about the Ofcom Wholesale Voice Markets Review 2021-2026, we have now submitted our forma…

Big news: we’ve joined the Secret Club

By Simon Woodhead We have some huge news! Long-time followers of this blog will no doubt have heard me rant about BT’s strategy and specifically thei…

WVMR Part 6 – Wrapping up

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

WVMR Part 5 – A prime opportunity to improve porting?

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

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…