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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.

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…

Christmas & New Year 2019 Porting Desk

Our porting desk will be operating as usual over the festive period, with the exception of the bank holidays. When submitting a port request on the l…

Management Changes

By Simon Woodhead I’m delighted to announce some fairly significant changes to our organisational structure. One of the main appeals for us with Sipc…

SimCon3 is on!

Save the date: SimCon3 will be taking place in Bristol on March 5th and 6th 2020, with SimCon Awards on the evening of the 5th. Get your ticket here!…

TADSummit EMEA

By Simon Woodhead We had an excellent time at TADHack Global as you may read, and TADSummit Americas which immediately followed it in almost the same…

Thank you TADHack Global 2019!

By Simon Woodhead TADHack Global is now over although it’ll be a few days before we all get home. It has been a wild ride and we’ve loved it. The eve…

Simwood Partner – our plans for Sipcentric

By Simon Woodhead It has been a week since we announced the acquisition of Sipcentric and Birchills Telecom. I promised that I would update you on ou…

EU local-breakout / Origin Based Surcharges

By Simon Woodhead For some time now EU traffic has mostly been breaking out in-country, i.e. rather than being dumped on an international carrier and…