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The Simwood blog.

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

Hosted Pricing Changes and Carrier Services MSA Updates

I’d much rather be writing a notice about our awesome new conversational AI, or Teams Operator Connect, but, alas, I have the need to update you all…

An update from Africa

You might recall our announcement that we were supporting ChallengeAid, a wonderful charity supporting amazing work in the slum settlements of Kenya.…

Top Gun VoIP: Why the Best Must Give a Damn About Standards

With any new industry, the focus of the early builders is – quite naturally – building. When they put railroads across America, not much (if any) con…

The channel bubble – new bursting rules

I recall recently on one of my flights to a recent event looking at a packet of smoked almonds handed to me by the cabin crew which contained the war…

Gigaclear’s issues expose (more) cracks in Government logic

By now, you’ve probably heard that Gigaclear have had a slap on the wrist for a data management situation which could have resulted in 948 blue-light…

Creating my AI PA

Regular readers will be more than familiar with our work on Conversational AI and our reference in SimCron6 to agents now being available on the Host…

The bigger they are the harder they fall – don’t be a casualty

I’m writing this from Greece, taking a brief holiday with two of my children. It has been amazing to be away from the daily deluge of misery coming o…

SimCron6: Conversational AI, vCons, Nuisance Call Protection and more

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Carrier Community Catch-Up with Simon

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Innovation vs Stability

I love how in life seemingly individual events inter-relate. Some might call it synchronicity but I tend to just think of them as data points, and I’…

Does anyone listen to Regulators?

Back in my financial services days, I remember the strict difference in regulatory scariness between the USA and the UK. The SFA (as was then) in the…

STIR/SHAKEN update

Following our warning a few weeks ago about disruptive changes in the USA, we have seen very little change in compliance by other operators, with man…