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Kaizen that remembers

We’ve come a scarcely believable distance with AI. There are mic-drops coming on the product side, but it’s the internal story I want to tell. We hav…

Enshitification in telecoms

En-shit-i-fi-cation is a term coined by Cory Doctrow a few years ago to describe how once good digital platforms or services become ever ‘shitter’. W…

Call Quality Reports

Effective today, you will be receiving weekly emails highlighting call quality on your account as a courtesy. These are in beta so we welcome feedbac…

Doing what’s hard

I get a lot out of Alex Smith’s newsletters about strategy, and love the book “No Bullsh*t Strategy”. Today he put one out which resonated more than…

Chapter 3: What are you going to build?

Every once in a while I get to write a business plan. Maybe I’m sad, but I love it – imagining the future and our part in it gives me the same kind o…

Simwood adds WhatsApp voice as a connectivity option – THIS IS BIG!

Over recent weeks, our miracle-worker in chief (well, CTO), Charles Chance, has been working on an important project to get the tech side and relevan…

When profit comes before safety

There are many decisions you can make in business that nobody will know about. Your shareholders may make more or less, as a result. Your agility or…

Reminder: Instant Prepayments

We work hard to ensure when customers want to pay us money, it is easy and payments are automatically applied as soon as received, where possible. Ma…

The rise and fall of the knuckle-dragger

We were having a conversation the other evening in Simwood Towers. Well, not really, Pete was sitting in his pants in Canada (not a fetish, but the r…

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’…

Service affecting STIR/SHAKEN changes (updated)

Back in 2020 when we went live with STIR/SHAKEN signing in the US, we published a matrix of the various levels of attestation we’d apply to calls. Th…

Parallel Universes

We spend a lot of time thinking where the puck is going. I was always taught business is about adding value and solving problems and I honestly belie…

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