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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.

SimCon3 – Welcome & CEO Update

Spoiler – exciting new products announced!

SimCon3 joining information!

SimCon3 is next Thursday and those of you who have booked will be receiving joining instructions from us early next week. In short, if you’re coming…

Coronavirus (COVID-19)

By Simon Woodhead Given the news flow, we felt it was appropriate to update you on where we were with the preparations due to the risk of COVID-19 vi…

SimCon3 – new accommodation

SimCon3 is rapidly filling up. If you would like to stay in the main hotel (4*) then you need to book really quick – there’s two tickets left there.…

SimCon3 Agenda is published

By Simon Woodhead We’re really excited to publish the agenda for SimCon3 on March 5th and 6th. The full details are at https://simcon.io Once again w…

Invoicing changes – important

Effective March 1st the Due Date on invoices will be immediate for all customers other than: those who have enrolled for Direct Debit Managed Interco…

USA update

By Simon Woodhead We’re making amazing progress in the USA so I thought we owed you an update. TLDR: Everything is awesome. USA numbering is out of b…

Introducing our security and bug bounty!

By Simon Woodhead As regular readers will know, we take security and privacy pretty seriously. You’ve seen our talks and research on VoIP fraud, disc…

Have you made a SimCon Awards nomination yet?

By Simon Woodhead There’s so much machismo, lies and BS in this industry. Those with an API calling themselves “CPaaS”, sales operations being “carri…

SimCon3 – get in quick!

Congratulations (and thanks) to all those who took up the SimCon3 early-bird pricing in December. If you haven’t booked your ticket yet, please get i…

John Souter appointed to the Simwood Group plc board

By Grahame Davies I am super excited to announce the appointment of John Souter to the group board. John will play a key role in assisting delivery o…

Thanks for an amazing 2019!

As another Christmas nears, alarmingly quickly after the last one, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of our customers and community frie…