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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.

Surviving somebody else’s DDoS

Many customers route traffic to us over the public Internet. Given the way our network is architected and our policies, most of this comes to us over…

We’re hiring!

We have two vacancies in our Southampton office, please see below for more details and contact Adele Dowling (adele.dowling@simwood.com) if you are i…

SS7 architecture

Followers of our status page will know that there were some issues with our interconnects to/from BT recently. Those who don’t follow it hopefully di…

Lower pricing for Simwood Mobile

Simwood Mobile has been out for a while now and we’re seeing all kinds of services being built on-top of it, from call recording and business PBX int…

Terms of Service Changes

It has been many years since our terms were written and both our business and the market have changed a lot. We have therefore updated our Master Ser…

Comms Business Cover Story

We’re really pleased to be November’s cover story in Comms Business magazine. If you haven’t received your copy of the magazine yet, you can read our…

Convergence Summit South

Convergence Summit South is upon us again and we’d love to see you there. Last year, given the first hints of Simwood Mobile, we were somewhat overwh…

Ofcom’s Digital Communications Review

Further to our initial response, we have now responded to Ofcom’s actual Strategic Review of Digital Communications. Should customers wish to make th…

Simwood Mobile FAQ

As you know, Simwood Mobile is now live and you can finally become your very own MVNO! We’ve had a lot of questions over the past week so I thought I…

Mobile Update – The Launch

It’s been a while since I updated you on our mobile products and I’m delighted to say that today we finished putting the finishing touches to Mobile…

Ofcom’s definition of Significant Market Power (and porting)

We’ve just responded to Ofcom’s legal direction to provide commercial information on the call charges we’ve levied on BT and others for the last 3 ye…

An alternative perspective on Ofcom’s “Communications Market Review 2015”

It should be pretty obvious to readers of this blog that we struggle with some floors of Ofcom towers (Huw and team, not yours!). ‘We no speak bureau…