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.

Collapsing Manchester

By Simon Woodhead In 2009, we opened a PoP in Manchester to provide essential and unique diversity from London. It is crazy to think that was 11 year…

Welcome Jared Smith

By Simon Woodhead We’re delighted to welcome industry heavy-hitter Jared Smith to the Simwood team. He’ll be SVP of Product, joining our Senior Manag…

Mexico Dial-code and rate changes

By Simon Woodhead Last July, we advised of changes to Mexico dialling, whereby the 1 was being dropped between the country code (52) and mobile numbe…

COVID-19 – Getting back on our collective feet

By Simon Woodhead It has been an interesting couple of months, but the signs are there that as an industry and economy we’re poised to begin the reco…

BTZero and why it matters to you

By Simon Woodhead Regular readers or SimCon attendees will have heard me talk about BTZero before. In short it is our initiative to remove BT from th…

SimCon4 and something new!

By Simon Woodhead We were lucky with the timing for SimCon3 – sneaking it in before COVID-19 really became a thing. Naturally we were worried about i…

Test and Trace Spoofing

By Simon Woodhead Spoofing phone numbers is a reality on international networks, and in a UK context it is something we’ve raised time and time and t…

Reviewing Minimum Spend on Startup and Developer Accounts

By Simon Woodhead Startup accounts It is twelve months since we increased our wholesale minimum spend on Startup accounts from £100 to £250 per month…

Making calls 97% cheaper!

By Simon Woodhead Did you know, there are now 30 countries around the world with some form of origin-based pricing? In other words, 30 destination co…

Automated GBP top-ups

By Simon Woodhead Effective immediately, any GBP prepayments sent to the right bank account, with the right reference, will be applied to your accoun…

What a right CPaaS!

By Simon Woodhead Some people use the c-word conversationally. I use it quite sparingly because it is a strong word in most places, and not a very ni…

Introducing our ‘Carrier’ rate deck

By Simon Woodhead TLDR; if you have termination volume, but value quality, talk to Frazer or his team. Simwood has always been at the quality value-a…