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

OFCOM’s Consultation on Number Portability Charging

OFCOM’s Narrowband Review, effective earlier this year, led to incoming calls on ported numbers coming into Simwood being loss-making per minute, as…

WebRTC video conferencing / screen sharing

WebRTC is going to change the game completely for all of us. Whilst it is potentially devastating for our industry commercially, it also presents hug…

Important changes to 084 / 087 numbers

Effective June 2014 you will need to have replaced many of your 084 and 087 (and where applicable 09) numbers alternatives in order to remain complia…

Simwood Mobile (MVNO/MVNE)

We don’t normally go in for vapourware but on this occasion need to tell you about a development we have here that we think you’ll love and which is…

Do you still need Asterisk?

Ok, let’s get something straight to start with: We love Asterisk, it was the Swiss Army Knife of telecommunications and the product on which many peo…

Registration Proxy – Beta

We have for some time enabled you to create username/password combos for your end-users and pass outbound calls to us using them instead of the more…

New Trunk Controls

For some time now we’ve enabled named trunks to be configured via the API, allowing service providers to create dedicated trunks for individual custo…

Improvements to Inbound Fax

We have offered advanced inbound and outbound internet-based fax services since 2010 and believe we’re the only carrier to offer delivery of inbound…

Our VoIP Fraud presentation at LINX84

We had the pleasure of speaking at the London Internet Exchange’s LINX84 meeting on February 17th regarding our VoIP Fraud research. Below is the vid…

Simwood VoIP Fraud Analysis – get your copy now

As regular readers will know, Simwood has operated a VoIP Honeypot since 2011. The findings from it shape many of the market-leading features we offe…

2 quick scripts to help you sleep easier!

If you’re someone who didn’t implement our 4 quick ways to help stay safe from VoIP fraud at Christmas and you were not one of the unfortunate ones w…

France leading the way in nuisance call control

Over the Christmas break French fixed and mobile telephone operators quietly introduced surcharges on calls originating outside the EU. They are basi…