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
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
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
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
Podcast Directory Bait and switched into another Truth in Telecoms. Robert (The Vis) thought he was entering an industry beauty contest (really?) only to discover Johnny had an inquisition’s worth of questions. This really is a great review of the state of the industry and so many of the issues covered up by industry bodies. … Continue reading Podcast 87: Truth in Telecoms, The Vis Part 1
In August 2023 I wrote, Understanding TCR and Kaleyra Part 2. I mentioned the case Pulzone v. Kaleyra, Inc. It’s just settled. What’s interesting is the settlement of a 3 year old case was reached within 24 hours of Bill Peters meeting with the plaintiff’s lawyers as a witness against Kaleyra. Draw what inference you … Continue reading Podcast 86: Truth in Telecoms, Kaleyra and Sarbanes Oxley
Podcast Directory I met Steve through Thomas Howe. Steve is the Director Ecosystem for DataTrails, DataTrails provides next-generation transparency technology for any data supply chain. Put simply, AI without transparent audit trails can’t be trusted. Now that’s something we’ve heard from Thomas a few times 😉 Steve is a contributor to SCITT (Supply Chain Integrity, … Continue reading Podcast 85: TADSummit Innovators, Steve Lasker, DataTrails
Podcast Directory I’ve known Paul Golding for many years, well over one decade. All the way back to the early days of helping telcos try to understand what are these things called “developers”. Paul has been in AI since the beginning, I recommend following Paul as his posts are insightful and an excellent tracker on … Continue reading Podcast 84: Truth in AI, Paul Golding
Podcast Directory I’ve known Lyle Pratt since BetterVoice, over one decade ago. Lyle will be presenting at TADSummit in October. Better Voice was acquired by Inteliquent (now Sinch) in May 2016. Its core retail and white label products continue to operate. They enabled small businesses to easily create a customized phone or voicemail system, BeterVoice … Continue reading Podcast 83: TADSummit Innovators, Lyle Pratt, Vida
Podcast Directory Surbhi Rathore is the founder / CEO of Symbl.ai, a 6 year old start-up focused on conversation AI. Surbhi and her team are TADSummit and TADHack regulars, with past presentations: We’re excited that Surbhi will be joining us in 2024 to present on “Unified compliance for human and AI agents with Call Score.” … Continue reading Podcast 81: TADSummit Innovators, Surbhi Rathore, Symbl.ai, Unified Compliance