Telecoms, AI in the call path, network engineering and the occasional strong opinion. Several times a week since 2009.
We now have nationwide coverage for Geographic Number Portability with Vodafone, or rather what used to be Cable & Wireless and all acquired companie…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Please note we have changed banks for our currency accounts following the acquisition of Travelex by Western Union. We would ask that customers switc…
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…
Last year details emerged of the draft Communications Data bill, described early on by a Minister as: The proposals being considered would simply upd…
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…
In February OFCOM published a consultation on its proposals for change in the fixed-line marketplace. Whilst neither Simwood nor our customers operat…
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…