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The most directly connected network in the UK?

Ever since I started playing with networks, I’ve particularly geeked out on the value added by routing. I guess it is the same pleasure some get from…

Our stance on “dialler”

By Peter Farmer Everyone at Simwood is very clear on the nuances of our policy towards diallers, having suffered me droning on about compliance issue…

Cause code changes

By Simon Woodhead We’ve made some changes to the way our fraud controls reject calls. But don’t worry, nothing changes unless you want it to! I was l…

Norway CLI Restrictions

By Simon Woodhead In the latest act of the relentless re-localisation of telecoms, as domestic operators seek to re-enforce their monopolies, major N…

Blocking spam calls

By Simon Woodhead TLDR: If your calls to the USA are rejected by us, you need to clean up your traffic because we’ve tightened the screws on our cont…

Mexico Dial-code and rate changes

By Simon Woodhead Last July, we advised of changes to Mexico dialling, whereby the 1 was being dropped between the country code (52) and mobile numbe…

Pandemic 119

We have been asked by Ofcom to build 119 as a short-code as part of the NHS’ handling of Coronavirus. This is now live for all accounts and trunks wi…

Christmas & New Year 2019 Porting Desk

Our porting desk will be operating as usual over the festive period, with the exception of the bank holidays. When submitting a port request on the l…

Mexico Dialplan Changes

The Federal Telecommunications Institute of Mexico are introducing a new national numbering plan, changing a number of Mexican dial codes. Mexico has…

USA Caller ID changes – SHAKEN and STIR

by Thomas Hadden, COO Simwood Inc. Many of you may have heard of the changes being implemented in 2019-2020 by USA – ILEC/CLECs/IPES Carriers. The mo…

Simwood Christmas Opening Hours

By Ateeq Rehman As we approach this wonderful festive time of the year, we would like to notify all our customers of our office opening hours and las…

Capacity, capacity, and a huge thank you!

By Simon Woodhead Over the course of 2018 we’ve quadrupled our outbound capacity to keep pace with customer demand; that is within the UK and exclude…

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