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