Australian privacy principles (APP) due to come in to effect on 12th March 2014… Read More
American Samoa and Northern Mariana Islands now supported… Read More
Now available for inbound SMS and two-way SMS… Read More
Winners of our Christmas 2013 campaign. Two charities will get free messaging throughout 2014.… Read More
Are you sure that your inbound / outbound SMS will work while roaming?… Read More
SMS Text Messages: A Goldmine to Exploit Another day, another piece of the Snowden papers. This is probably the least surprising revelation from the Snowden papers. Texts are sent in the clear, and always have been. i.e. there is no encryption in the SMS standard. Vodafone are reported to be “shocked and surprised”, although I’m… Read More
Immediate cost reduction now in effect!… Read More
In the Interests of National Security? A very interesting article came to light over the weekend. Aftenposten.no (Norway’s Evening News – their largest newspaper) runs a story on GSM and A5/1, the encryption standard within GSM, reporting how the British requested weaker encryption. We have the Washington Post reporting that the NSA can break one… Read More
Forward inbound SMS text messages and keep the sender and the receiver anonymous from each other… Read More
A Very Brief History of Telecoms We’ve been writing a description of how our VSIM hosting service works. To help understand it’s helpful to take a lightning speed, but somewhat technical, tour of the history of telecoms. I’ve conflated a few steps to smooth our journey a little! We’ve come a long, long way since… Read More