By Victoria Palmer You may have heard that the industry’s new “Right to Port” rule – more specifically an update to General Condition C7 – came into…
By Simon Woodhead Back in 2018 we had General Condition C6.6 (GC C6.6) introduced, requiring operators to ensure CLI was valid on the way in and out…
By Simon Woodhead Those are very well used words in our house. My 5 year old daughter is scarily bright and what any parent will relate to when I say…
By Simon Woodhead Happy New Year! We find that the new year is traditionally the time when people like to dust-off relationships, reflect on the past…
By Simon Woodhead It has been a little while since I’ve opined on the Telecommunications Security Act 2021 and the all-important secondary legislatio…
By Pete Farmer We’ve previously blogged about restrictions countries are putting into place on presenting a local telephone number crossing the inter…
By Pete Farmer Avid readers of my musings on this blog may recall I opined on the subject of CPI recently. In that piece, I mentioned Simwood had wri…
by Pete Farmer Yes and no; a typical response from a telecommunications regulatory wonk like myself. Unfortunately, that answer, although wishy-washy…
by Grahame Davies Recently, we advised the Norwegians were blocking traffic presenting their telephone numbers at the international gateway, and now…
By Simon Woodhead If you’ve followed our previous blogs on origin surcharges, what comes next will probably not surprise you. If this is the first yo…
By Simon Woodhead In ye olde days, when punishment by hanging was a thing, life wasn’t fun but there was one positive (beyond being there to witness…
TLDR: Regulations are getting ever tighter around US termination traffic. Simwood Inc customers can expect increased levels of scrutiny and Know Your…