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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.

Two men, two hacks, two very different outcomes…

We offer more fraud mitigation tools than any other carrier. We give data away freely which is used by others in their own products and networks. Fin…

Registration proxy update

It is some months since we first put our registration proxy out in beta. Whilst still in beta for now, we’ve released a new version of it. This has s…

Further guidance on OFCOM’s “Service Charge” changes

We previously discussed what changes were afoot and suggested customers hold-fire from responding to OFCOM’s demands until the situation was more cle…

Our new video: Authentic Wholesale VoIP

If you didn’t make it to Convergence Summit, let us present our new video. We’re pretty pleased with it but would love your feedback. There are a few…

ITSPA Fraud Session at Convergence Summit South

If you haven’t yet registered to come to Convergence Summit South, time is running short so please do so soon. If you are able to make it Simwood is…

Realtime API Reports

We’re constantly improving our API it based on your feedback. Recently we’ve added more fraud controls, changes to trunks are now processed in real t…

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…