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International Telecoms Week (ITW) 2023

By Simon Woodhead ITW takes place in Washington DC in mid-May and we’ll be there in force for the duration and a few days before. If any customers, p…

FTR/MTR increases

By Simon Woodhead The annual revision to carrier interconnect rates is upon us, effective April 1st 2023. As warned last year, and indeed as raised w…

Silicon Valley Bank

By Simon Woodhead As you may, or may not be aware, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a long-standing bank to the global technology sector has just suffered…

Termination rate volatility

By Simon Woodhead It won’t have escaped anybody’s attention that termination rates have been more volatile lately and I thought it would be helpful t…

Carrier Services Pricing Review

By Simon Woodhead We don’t go in for annually escalating prices like some, or even annual reviews, and in reality operate in a market where prices ar…

Name your own price!

By Simon Woodhead It has been 8 or so years since we introduced our various ‘new’ service levels for Carrier Services, so we thought an overview was…

I’ve got it all wrong

By Simon Woodhead Getting back into the saddle and seeing this industry with fresh eyes, I realise nearly everything we’ve done over the last 26 year…

I’m back!

By Simon Woodhead Last October I posted that I was stepping down as CEO and my long-standing colleague Grahame Davies would be replacing me. Today, I…

We’ve come up with a great deal!

By Frazer Barnett TL:DR – Simwood Launches a new Dealer product. It’s been a while now since Pete, our Chief Compliance Officer, started talking abou…

CPI is just real-terms uplift, right?

by Pete Farmer Yes and no; a typical response from a telecommunications regulatory wonk like myself. Unfortunately, that answer, although wishy-washy…

UK Numbering Pricing

By Simon Woodhead TLDR: All conserved and desirable 020 ranges (i.e. 020 7 and 020 8), and Conserved area codes, will now have a small set-up charge…

Dirty surcharges come to 03 and 08 (except here)

By Simon Woodhead In the latest twist to the sordid tail of origin surcharges, it seems to me that those emboldened by having got away with surchargi…

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