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Podcast 96: TADSummit Innovators. Igor Boshoer, Clerk Chat

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Clerk Chat founded by Alexander Haque, Igor Boshoer, and Will Chertoff, raised $7M in seed funding last month (October). Led by Race Capital with participation from HF0, Mento VC, and Altair VC. They enable AI agents across messaging channels that work on behalf of their customers’ businesses for support, sales and marketing. As you’ll understand, they’re creating an interesting category, … Continue reading Podcast 96: TADSummit Innovators. Igor Boshoer, Clerk Chat →

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Podcast 95: Truth in Telecoms, It takes a village to raise AIT, Muhammad Wahab Sultan

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Podcast Directory I’ve been kept busy with TADHack and TADSummit through October, so we’ve had a break from the podcasts. But we’re getting back into them and today we are talking with Muhammad Wahab Sultan (Wahab). He’s a great supporter for the work we’re doing in helping the industry understand the reality of CPaaS. Wahab … Continue reading Podcast 95: Truth in Telecoms, It takes a village to raise AIT, Muhammad Wahab Sultan →

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Clerk Chat, AI Messaging, just raised $7M

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Clerk Chat founded by Alexander Haque, Igor Boshoer, and Will Chertoff, has just raised $7M in seed funding. Led by Race Capital with participation from HF0, Mento VC, and Altair VC. They enable AI agents across messaging channels that work on behalf of their customers’ businesses for support, sales and marketing. We were unable to add … Continue reading Clerk Chat, AI Messaging, just raised $7M →

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Podcast 94: Truth in Telecoms, What to do about AIT, Kevin Graham and Daniel Gill

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Podcast Directory In Podcast 93 we reviewed AIT (Artificially Inflated Traffic) from an independent perspective. Feedback was complementary on the openness, depth, breadth, and forward looking discussion on the threat that is AIT to the whole ecosystem. We reviewed the ecosystem, the responsibilities, what can and can not be done to enable compliance. A common … Continue reading Podcast 94: Truth in Telecoms, What to do about AIT, Kevin Graham and Daniel Gill →

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Podcast 93: Truth in Telecoms, AIT, Kevin Graham and Daniel Gill

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Podcast Directory Johnny opened on the TCR sale, how the minimum bid to get into the data room is $300M. The other news item is Infobip becoming a D2C (Direct to Carrier) aggregator in the US, as T-Mobile replaced Syniverse with Infobip. I covered how in August I had 13 days with no SMS spam … Continue reading Podcast 93: Truth in Telecoms, AIT, Kevin Graham and Daniel Gill →

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Podcast 92: Truth in Telecoms, Bill’s Federal Complaint is Moving

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Podcast Directory This is a useful review of where we are across: The video contains so much more than I can write. Johnny does a good job reviewing the story so far. I provide below a sample of some of the points covered, but you know Johnny! Fun with The Vis: Check out the 45 … Continue reading Podcast 92: Truth in Telecoms, Bill’s Federal Complaint is Moving →

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Podcast 91: Truth in Telecoms, Robert Vis and vCon Vinnie

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Podcast Directory In this podcast we review some of Robert Vis’ insights from the podcast we did last week, and introduce ‘vCon Vinne’. We kick off with how Johnny was beaten up with patents after The Vis stated, Patents are for the weak. He looks in a bad way. Johnny has a new nickname for … Continue reading Podcast 91: Truth in Telecoms, Robert Vis and vCon Vinnie →

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Podcast 90: TADSummit Innovators, Dinesh Saparamadu, hSenid Mobile

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Podcast Directory hSenid Mobile, founded in 1997, has been in the VAS (Value Add Service) / programmable telecoms space throughout its history. In 2013 they launched with Dialog Axiata an innovation ecosystem called Ideamart. I consider Ideamart to be the most successful telecom innovation ecosystems in the world. Accounting for 10-15 % of Dialog Axiata’s … Continue reading Podcast 90: TADSummit Innovators, Dinesh Saparamadu, hSenid Mobile →

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Podcast 89: Truth in Telecoms, The Vis Part 3

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Podcast Directory This has been an intense Truth in Telecom 3 part series with The Vis. We jump onto the ‘pay to play’ awards, pointless, yet it occupies time to make industry bodies appear to do something. I’ve never done them for TADSummit. It’s a bit like the industry landscapes from analysts that always seem … Continue reading Podcast 89: Truth in Telecoms, The Vis Part 3 →

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Podcast 88: Truth in Telecoms, The Vis Part 2

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Podcast Directory Part 2 starts with a review of the US market, how Twilio was paid to send and receive SMS, and was only charged a small fee by the carriers. However, the carriers saw the charges Twilio was making to its customers, and used TCR (The Campaign Registry) to raise pricing to 0.5/1c per … Continue reading Podcast 88: Truth in Telecoms, The Vis Part 2 →