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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.

Taking Simwood Meet global

By Simon Woodhead Simwood Meet caught on fast! We’ve commented before about some of the use cases you’ve told us about, from Government to remote edu…

Is wholesale right for you? Simwood Partner SIP Trunks.

By Simon Woodhead Simwood Partner SIP Trunks are now generally available and we think you’re going to like them. There’s no sneaky NDAs, no five-year…

Simwood Meet now in the App Store

We’re really excited to let you know that Simwood Meet is now available in the App Store for iPhone and iPad. It works superbly on its own or with ht…

Pandemic 119

We have been asked by Ofcom to build 119 as a short-code as part of the NHS’ handling of Coronavirus. This is now live for all accounts and trunks wi…

Let’s be honest about value!

By Simon Woodhead We have really two peers in the UK, one to the north, one to the east. We know many of our customers have accounts with more than o…

Jitsi Meet on Docker

By Simon Woodhead Our old friend Sandro Gauci (Sipvicious author and all round SIP security guru) has written up an issue with the XMPP component of…

COVID-19 impact on UK & USA voice traffic

By Simon Woodhead A number of you have asked what has been happening on the Simwood network throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. A lot of this is simple…

Porting Policy update

By Simon Woodhead Background and ‘Why’ In 2018 we modified our porting policy, attempting to redress the disproportional cost of the few exports we d…

CLI filtering update

By Simon Woodhead Last week we sent a mail and posted a blog about our GC C6 filtering on both CLI and dialled numbers globally. This is an update on…

Warning: your calls are about to be rejected

We’ve banged on about CLI filtering for years. Ofcom GC C6 even mandates it, if anyone – including Ofcom – cared to interpret it as originally writte…

COVID-19 change to 101 billing

Due to the unfolding situation with Coronavirus (COVID-19), the Home Office (HO) has requested that all Communication Providers implement a charge ch…

Openreach porting – final update

By Simon Woodhead Further to yesterday’s ‘“plan B” post relating to the issue of “BT halting porting operations?”, we are in receipt of more informat…