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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.

Realtime Call Webhooks

We recently introduced a number of webhooks, and realtime Call Control functionality allowing you to end calls in progress via the API. Today, we’ve…

Hosted PBX comes to Simwood

By Simon Woodhead We’ve wanted to offer you multi-tenant own-branded hosted PBX for years. To be frank, we’ve tried a few solutions but they’ve never…

API Call Control

The Simwood API is great for provisioning and reporting as well as managing our wide range of fraud prevention controls and monitoring your current u…

We’re sponsoring TADHack Global

By Kathleen King We’re super excited to be sponsoring TADHack Global next month (11-13 October). It is a global event, of hackathons in 8 cities arou…

Asterisk Training in Bristol

The legend they call Duffett is running his excellent Advanced Asterisk Training in Bristol soon. We’d heartily recommend his training, especially wh…

020 (4)

By Ross McKillop There is a common misconception that London had two area codes, 0207 and 0208, and then 0203 was added. As a result, there’s a perce…

Re-monopolisation through the Secret Club – Part 2

By Simon Woodhead In 2017, I articulated in a blog post what I’d long said in private. In short, how there is no IP interconnect to BT subject to pri…

Announcing webhooks!

By Simon Woodhead OK, so webhooks aren’t completely new – we’ve had them for certain API functions, notably incoming fax and SMS, and we significantl…

Switch to Direct Debit and get 30 days credit

We’ve offered Direct Debit as a payment option you can configure in the portal for donkey’s years now, and the majority of our payments by value come…

Are we first in route?

By Simon Woodhead Our humungous new rate update is live today (9th August 2019) and it marks the beginning of a great experiment – to apply initial m…

Humungous, monster rate update!

By Simon Woodhead We mentioned a few weeks ago how we were tweaking our rate-setting algorithms and you’ve hopefully noticed some changes to terminat…

Ofcom: Marking their own homework

It is that time of year when Ofcom gives us their school report, prepared of course by Ofcom, in the form of a number of annual market reports. They…