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

Special Offer: Cable & Wireless Geographic Number Portability

We now have nationwide coverage for Geographic Number Portability with Vodafone, or rather what used to be Cable & Wireless and all acquired companie…

Frustration = Opportunity

An opinion post by Simon Woodhead I sometimes think my world is upside down. Some nights I lie awake pondering the changes this industry has coming a…

Simwood Virtual Interconnect – Inbound

We’ve had a fantastic year so far at Simwood, growing our customer base substantially. Whereas in past years this was from new entrants to the VoIP s…

Special Offer: Geographic Number Portability

For the month of May we are reducing our charges on the porting in of geographic numbers from the following network operators: BT Vodafone (Thus) Vod…

The Mobile Industry Will Shift… Again

A guest post by Mark Selby. Mark is the former VP of Industry Collaborations and Multimedia at Nokia. These days he is a highly sought after independ…

BT claim they own SIP

By Simon Woodhead Shortly after midnight last night my inbox pinged with a concerned email from a diligent customer. They’d seen news on The Register…

New USD / EUR bank accounts

Please note we have changed banks for our currency accounts following the acquisition of Travelex by Western Union. We would ask that customers switc…

Is Mandatory IPv6 the new Snoopers Charter?

If you’re reading this you should know IPv4 is exhausted, and IPv6 has been in service amongst forward thinking ISPs for some time. Where properly im…

Communications Data Bill (a.k.a. Snoopers Charter)

Last year details emerged of the draft Communications Data bill, described early on by a Minister as: The proposals being considered would simply upd…

The week the game changed

An opinion post by Simon Woodhead, Managing Director. It should come as little surprise to anyone to hear that this week saw a rather large DDoS agai…

OFCOM review of the fixed narrowband services markets

In February OFCOM published a consultation on its proposals for change in the fixed-line marketplace. Whilst neither Simwood nor our customers operat…

Nuisance Call Guidelines

In common with all UK CPs/Network Operators we recently received a joint letter from OFCOM and the ICO on the behaviour they expect in respect of: Un…