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

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…

Balance related channel limits

Presently we do not charge for channels allocated to customers but like any operator with the overhead of a network, they are a valuable resource and…

Nuisance calls appearing to come from Simwood numbers

Please refer to the most up-to-date guidance on unwanted calls here. This is a bit of a departure for our blog as I’m writing this to be read by cons…

Advanced Inbound Routing and Mobile

As the new guy on the Simwood team (it was officially my first day today) I wanted to make a short blog post to show you something that I’m very exci…

Default inbound routing

Further to yesterday’s announcement regarding Advanced Inbound Routing, you can now configure the same set of features as a default configuration for…

Advanced Inbound Routing

You can now configure numbers to route to multiple destinations, of multiple types, simultaneously as well as configure time of day routing, all at n…

Dan Lane to join Simwood as COO

We’re delighted to announce that serial telecommunications entrepreneur Dan Lane is joining Simwood. Dan was previously Head of Special Projects at M…