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Astricon 2018 Keynote: Default Distrust by Simon Woodhead

VoxAP: One more thing…

Thanks to those of you who enrolled for early access to the VoxAP beta last week. We don’t intend revealing the entire road-map here, but we really w…

Comms Business Cover Story – November 2018

We’re really pleased to again be the cover story in November’s edition of Comms Business. Please see the magazine or click on the image for a PDF cop…

Introducing VoxAP

By Simon Woodhead It has been a while since we mentioned mobile and, for those who enquire about Simwood Mobile very regularly, please be assured we…

Capacity, capacity, and a huge thank you!

By Simon Woodhead Over the course of 2018 we’ve quadrupled our outbound capacity to keep pace with customer demand; that is within the UK and exclude…

US numbering now available (in testing)

As previously signalled, we’re really pleased to make US numbering available through the portal in testing. As it is in testing there are some known…

GC6 Customer Update

Whilst the implementation of the new CLI policies around General Conditions 6 has largely gone without incident, we’ve experienced a number of report…

08979 Oh…

by Ross McKillop General Condition 6 requires that all operators sending calls onto the PSTN set a Network Number that is on their network to allow c…

GC6 CLI Update

With effect Wednesday 10th October we will be implementing the first phase of CLI changes for compliance with the revised General Condition 6 as prev…

Intelligently Rejecting Nuisance Calls since 2014

Back in 2014, we launched Intelligent Call Rejection, a Simwood take on the traditional ACR service, which filtered out calls where Caller ID Data is…

CLI-based routing

As we near the mandatory changes to CLI handling in October, we’re seeing an increased number of tickets relating to routing issues where certain CLI…

Why buy your IP transit from a Tier 2 network?

By Simon Woodhead We’ve banged the drum a fair bit about why you should buy your IP Transit from Simwood (contention free, low latency, largely optic…