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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.

SimCon1 reflections

By Simon Woodhead On Thursday, we were proud to host the first ever SimCon event in our new Bristol office, and were very grateful that 60 or so of o…

PSD2 compliance and some great new anti-fraud features

As we mentioned last week, the new Payment Services Directive seems to have taken the industry a little by surprise, and basic compliance (i.e. cappi…

SimCon1 Full

Following our appeal for RSVPs, we had a lot of you kindly respond. The event is now full and we’ve tripled our chair order to fit everyone in! We’re…

Please update our bank account details

You may have missed that over the Christmas break we announced new local USD and EUR bank account details. We have now added a new GBP account to the…

Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2)

By Ross McKillop You may have heard of the Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) which has recently been adopted into UK law through the Payment Servic…

We’re hiring!

To handle growth we need to add a further 2-3 fabulous people to our Operations Desk, working in our wonderfully refitted Bristol office. For further…

SimCon1 RSVP ASAP Ta

Invites for our Bristol office opening party and our first customer conference, SimCon1, should be landing on doorsteps today. We’ve also published t…

Asterisk Training, Bristol

We’re delighted to say that David Duffett of Digium Authorised Training Partner, Telespeak, Director of the Worldwide Asterisk Community, and without…

Anycast outbound SIP & Registration proxy

By Simon Woodhead With the new stack largely behind us, we’ve got a new feature for you. This is in early alpha which means we will break it, there a…

New international carriers for 2018

By Simon Woodhead There’s an odd phenomenon amongst international carriers that I’ve blogged about before but which seems relevant to mention again.…

Local US and Euro area bank accounts / References / Fraud

Our growing band of USA-based customers are now able to make domestic ACH or wire payments in USD to our USA based bank account. Similarly, we have a…

Thanks for 2017!

By Simon Woodhead As we near Christmas I wanted to say a huge thank you to all of our customers and wish you and your families the very best for the…