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A change in our international focus

By Pete Farmer Once upon a time, everyone started offering international numbering services, mainly because they could at a technical level. A simple…

Changing our 999 routing policy

By Simon Woodhead As a wholesale / carrier services provider, we offer 999 call routing and the ability to update the Emergency Handling Agency’s dat…

Running Voice over the Public Internet

By Simon Woodhead Over many years I’ve been intolerant of lies and deceptions when it comes to “networks”. At one end of the scale you have the spivs…

Heads on the chopping board!

By Peter Farmer In the first of the promised series of articles about the upcoming Telecommunications Security Regulations, I’m going to talk about t…

Incoming! Take cover.

By Peter Farmer One of the frustrations of being a telecommunications regulatory person is that stuff affecting Simwood and other providers today is…

Have you ever wondered?

By Peter Farmer One of the banes of life as someone that works in the field of telecommunications regulation is the expectation that we will somehow…

Which equilibrium will prevail?

By Pete Farmer Simwood’s views on the recent BT Openreach FTTP pricing (called the Equinox Offer) will be known to regular readers. Our response to O…

Speaking at Westminster Forum

I had the pleasure of speaking to Parliamentarians at the Westminster Forum today, on all things Wholesale IP Voice, but specifically on IP migration…

Ofcom’s Christmas Gift to You All

By Pete Farmer Readers who are members of Comms Council UK will have a passing familiarity with what’s coming next month, as there has been a few web…

Grannies vs BT

By Peter Farmer OK, so the headline talks about Grannies… disappointingly we are actually talking about a class action of all landline only customers…

Ofcom’s new loyalty scheme

By Simon Woodhead Our Regulator has the Statutory power to fine you. Pretty scary right? Well, it is unless you’re the former state funded monopolist…

VoIP DDoS Preparations – Remember your Regulatory Obligations

By Peter Farmer There’s a bit of a fracas going on now, as we know from reports about sustained and targeted DDoS attacks against at least two voice…

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