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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.

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…

Our new brochure

Following our Competitive Review video, we are very proud to share with you our new (first ever!) brochure. This will provide you with a brief overvi…

Codec handling – important technical change

This is an important change which may break your inbound call routing if you have misconfigured certain things. We recommend you check ASAP, and cert…

We’re hiring – Senior DevOps Engineer

Fancy joining our Southampton team? For more information and to apply please see LinkedIn

Competitive Review – Important Changes

Ofcom CEO gives House of Commons Evidence

Sharon White, new CEO of Ofcom, today gave evidence to the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee. Whilst a satirical commentary…

Simwood Mobile SIP Registration

As you’re no doubt aware we have a new Partner Manager in the form of Craig Howell, Craig was issued with his new Simwood Mobile company phone earlie…