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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.

Vote Simon Woodhead for LINX!

By Simon Woodhead At the next AGM on May 17th, the London Internet Exchange will elect two Directors; one possibly a re-election, the second replacin…

Mobile Update!

Further our recent posts discussing what we were going to do to simplify mobile (both commercially and technically), we’re delighted to report we’ve…

Kamailio World 2016

Kamailio World is taking place in Berlin May 18-20th and we’d love to see you there! We’ve been to every event since it started and it gets better ev…

Please set up an automated payment / backup payment method

Historically we’ve offered a choice of three payment methods for invoiced services (such as number rental); Deduction from prepay credit Credit card…

CLIs and Billing Reconciliation

by Ross McKillop Some of you may think I rant about nothing other than CLI from reading this blog however, as my colleagues would confirm, I rant abo…

Mobile update!

We recently described how we’d listened to your feedback and simplified the commercials on Simwood Mobile, making it more accessible and easier to un…

Join the Simwood Team

We are looking for two people to join our team in Southampton, both in our Operations Desk and in a new Marketing role, please see below for more det…

Team progression

By Simon Woodhead At last week’s company get together and training day, I announced a number of changes to team roles. Ross has been with the company…

SIP Signalling – TCP or UDP ?

There seems to be a popular misconception that SIP is a UDP protocol, whereas some of our new services, such as the SIP Registration Proxy and our Mo…

Rethinking Mobile

Simwood Mobile has been in the wild for some time now and remains unique in exposing unparalleled flexibility to build MVNOs with access and control…

Direct Debit in the portal

We’ve offered Direct Debit settlement of invoices for some time but until now have had to manually send customers the mandate. Effective immediately…

Burstable channels / How our channel limits work

Back in July when we introduced our new packages, we described how customers on our new Virtual Interconnect and Managed Interconnect packages (both…