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Telecoms, AI in the call path, network engineering and the occasional strong opinion. Several times a week since 2009.

SIP Extensions

In addition to our powerful API we offer a number of features that work alongside it which are implemented in the SIP protocol itself, as custom head…

Freephone calls from payphones

Effective October 2nd our Freephone rates will change as below. The change is an increase in the cost of calls from Payphones following a further sub…

A sneak preview of our new portal

We’d like to invite you to try our new Customer Portal! v2 has served us well but was long overdue a refresh and bringing into line with the many new…

Meet Simwood at Convergence Summit South

If you’re attending Convergence Summit South at Sandown Park next month be sure to swing by Stand 11 to talk to us about our industry leading VoIP ne…

Guidance on OFCOM’s “Service Charges” Changes

All of our Virtual Interconnect customers have received contact from OFCOM relating to the ongoing unbundling of non-geographic call charges. This is…

Simwood test line

Every number range we build on the network, whether ours or for Virtual Interconnect customers (including Virtual Interconnect Mobile) has a “test” n…

API Changes Mean No More Waiting

Our API is constantly being improved and expanded. Recently we announced our Advanced Inbound Routing and New Trunk Controls which provide flexible c…

An update on Simwood Mobile

First of all, let us apologise for the lack of updates recently; we’ve been very busy behind the scenes bringing all the necessary components togethe…

Simwood at ClueCon

We’ll be at ClueCon in Chicago August 4-7th. Simon Woodhead will be presenting there, building on our previous fraud presentations. We spoke at both…

Our VoIP Fraud Presentation at Kamailio World 2014

We had the pleasure of speaking at the Kamailio World conference in Berlin regarding our VoIP Fraud research. Below is the video of our talk. We cont…

HotLINX features Simwood

As you know we sponsored and presented at February’s meeting of LINX (the London Internet Exchange). The exchange’s quarterly magazine is now out and…

Intelligent Caller Rejection – Protect your customers from nuisance calls

Unlike some competitors, Simwood has no tolerance for nuisance calls being made from our network, but unfortunately our customers continue to receive…