Podcast Directory I’ve known Robert since he founded Wadaro. Here’s a piece I wrote about Wadaro in 2012. It was Tim Pickup that introduced us. Wadaro have been focused on SIM apps since Robert’s previous company Magic4 was bought by Openwave. What prompted Robert to start Wadaro is not having mobile signal at the back … Continue reading Podcast 47: TADSummit Innovators. Robert Wakeling, Wadaro
Podcast Directory Today, Robert Gerstmann, Chairman of the MEF released a letter to its members. I received the letter from a number of people in Europe. They were angered and surprised that Robert Gerstmann from Sinch was conflating what Eric J. Troutman wrote in reaction to Puja J. Amin being kicked off a MEF panel … Continue reading Podcast 46: Truth in Telecoms, Revenge of the Messaging Monopolies
Podcast Directory Uku, Messente This week we had an excellent podcast with Uku from Messente communications. He is the leader most members of the SMS industry point to as THE most trustworthy leader, he’s the real-deal. He and Ira Cohen from MMDSmart at an event both said they would prefer published pricing for SMS, so … Continue reading Podcast 45: Truth in Telecoms, Coverups
Podcast Directory I wanted to share from the Deserve to Win Podcast Ep 23 something I found very powerful and wanted to highlight. It’s the shock and frustration Puja Amin expressed from being kicked off the MEF panel. AND also the frustration at the lack of support from the industry. Puja stood up to the abuse she … Continue reading Podcast 44: Truth in Telecoms, Please Express your Public Support to Puja Amin
Podcast Directory Uku Tomikas is the CEO of Messente. He began as a sales person, and has risen to become the CEO. Messente was spun out of an Estonian ICT (Information and Communications Technology) group in 2013 that focuses on mobile software; and has been profitable since 2013. Well done! Messente focuses on business messaging. … Continue reading Podcast 43: TADSummit Innovators, Uku Tomikas, Messente
Podcast Directory WOW! Check out this clip from the Czar, Eric Troutman, where he makes the case that TCR (The Campaign Registry) is against free speech. Which we also made the case in the Messaging Monopolies. Subscribe to the Czar’s channel as the interview with Johnny will be coming out soon. SMS is an IP … Continue reading Podcast 42: TADSummit Innovators, The Czar knocks it out of the park!
Podcast Directory As mentioned last week, we’re not using the usual title, because that keeps being disapproved for shocking content or political advertising. Let’s see what happens today. Youtube continues working on this problem to determine what is going on. I have a feeling there’s an insider messing with the TADSummit channel. This week things … Continue reading Podcast 41: [REDACTED], What the MEF?
Podcast Directory Sekura provides real-time mobile authentication, verification and fraud prevention from mobile operators to global banks, fintechs, crypto and consumer brands. Their focus is mobile identity and achieving the broadest coverage across 75 carriers and 2.5 billion mobile phone customers. They focus on the connection to carriers using Mobile Connect and all the variations … Continue reading Podcast 40: TADSummit Innovators, Mark Harvey, SEKURA.id
Why a Do Over? We’ve been struggling with disapprovals on YouTube. It seems to be part of a dirty tricks campaign. We’ve discovered videos with ‘TADSummit Innovators’ in the title now not impacted. One of the interviews that I think was adversely impacted by the campaign was Trusted Number Identity Management (TNID) from Noah Rafalko. … Continue reading Do Over on Podcast 29: TADSummit Innovators, Noah Rafalko, TNID
Podcast Directory Back in September Ameed introduced us to himself and TelecomsXChange on Podcast 4. This episode is diving into his AI projects, OpenTextShield and the TelecomsXChange ChatGPT interface. OpenTextShield is an open source project that detects spam and phishing. Its free under an MIT license. Every carrier and aggregator should be implementing this now … Continue reading Podcast 39: TADSummit Innovators, Ameed Jamous, OpenTextShield