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

SMS rate reduction

Effective immediately we have dramatically reduced our rates for SMS transmission to: Destination network GBP USD EUR UK 0.045 0.0693 0.0558 Rest of…

Fraud Management in the Simwood API

We have today made live some new experimental functionality in the Simwood API that we hope will greatly help you manage the pervasive risk from your…

Get your DNS in order!

With the Olympics ever closer and our warnings over commodity Internet access remaining, we wanted to share a tiny change you can make to dramaticall…

Congratulations to Telefonica O2 & Voxygen

We’d like to extend congratulations to Telefonica O2 and Voxygen who have together been short-listed as a finalist in the ITSPA Awards in the “Most I…

Net neutrality: VoIP is commonly blocked

Earlier in the week we aired our concerns about the performance of VoIP over commodity Internet access during the London 2012 games. BEREC (Body of E…

Keep your customers in business through the Olympics!

Without wishing to contribute to the moaning about London 2012, we think it will pose a problem for many of our customers and their onward customers.…

Congratulations to SureVoIP

We’d like to extend congratulations to Simwood customer SureVoIP who following extensive testing have been short-listed as a finalist in the ITSPA Aw…

TiNet Global IP Transit

You will hopefully be aware of Simwood’s quality IP Transit capability already but we’re excited to tell you that we’ve added a further option to the…

Now peering on AMS-IX

We’re delighted to announce we’ve joined AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange), connecting into it redundantly from our Manchester data centre. As we’…

Customer API v3

We have today released the latest version of our customer API and hope you’ll agree it is the best one yet. In fact, our portal is 100% based on this…

VoIP User Conference discussing IP Reputation

We had the pleasure of joining in a discussion this week on VoIP User Conference (VUC) regarding our IP Reputation service with ThreatSTOP, our Darkn…

Case Study: SureVoIP

We’re delighted to present a second customer Case Study. SureVoIP are an Aberdeen based ITSP making use of Simwood A-Z termination. SureVoIP case stu…