Johnny is either lucky or prescient or perhaps a bit of both. He’s been highlighting the importance of Swifties on social issues. Spam SMS and robocalling have become critical social issues in the US due to ineffective action and messaging monopolies within the Telecom ecosystem. And Time Magazine’s woman of the year is Taylor Swift! … Continue reading Podcast 15: Truth in Telecoms. Booyah! A line in the sand.→
Podcast Directory TADSummit Innovators, Ken Herron, UIB Johnny gives a preview of what’s coming on Friday’s Truth in Telecoms. How Jim Cramer appears to be the new Twilio CEO. See my post on how Wall Street are hampering Twilio’s future (8k impressions). How Wall Street has decided we’re now called CPaaSAI – you heard it … Continue reading Podcast 14: TADSummit Innovators, Ken Herron, UIB→
Podcast Directory Lots of news this week. The big one is Silvio Kutic (CEO of Infobip) joining the SMS spam discussion with “Text spamming is out of control. Here’s how to stop it.” Johnny discovered his favorite word of the day, bippers, the collective noun of Infobip employee. Twilio has another infection of activist shareholders, … Continue reading Podcast 13: Truth in Telecoms, Dirty Cop Suckers→
Podcast Directory TADSummit Innovators, Paul Sweeney, Webio We open with a quick preview of what’s coming in Friday’s Truth in Telecoms: Twilio’s activists, Tata latest and UIB, then Johnny and I go one on one on the bookclubs, such as the Monopoly Economics Forum AKA MEF! Sorry I mean the Mobile Entertainment Forum, oops, I … Continue reading Podcast 12: TADSummit Innovators, Paul Sweeney, Webio→
Podcast Directory In this Thanksgiving Special Podcast we cover how the Swifties will stop voice and SMS SPAM in North America. BTW, Johnny, after watching the latest Taylor Swift movie, has become a Swifty. We review Breitbart’s coverage of the election interference and coverup detailed in Bill Peter’s complaint. https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/11/17/lawsuit-alleges-campaign-text-robocall-infrastructure-tied-china-biased/ The breaking news is on … Continue reading Podcast 11, Truth in Telecoms, What did Tata Buy?→
Podcast Directory TADSummit Innovators, Kalyan Kumar Pasumarthy An inspiring interview with Dr Kalyan Kumar Pasumarthy, and his journey in programmable communications. How TADSummit helped him cut through the marketing to realize he too can deliver value to his customers in an untapped niche. Also a shout out to Kalyan’s home state of Andhra Pradesh. We … Continue reading Podcast 10: TADSummit Innovators, Kalyan Kumar Pasumarthy→
Podcast Directory CPaaS and AI M&A Taking the lead from Twilio, we’re all CPaaS and AI companies these days, rather the programmable communications 😉 Johnny posted on the latest Twilio results, and I baited him on what a Twilo and tyntec tie-up could look like. Johnny reviews his experiences with tyntec, the unique position they … Continue reading TADSummit Podcast 9: Truth in Telecoms→
Podcast Directory TADSummit Innovators Bogdan sponsored TADSummit 2023 and provided an excellent keynote, The Symbiosis of Open Source and Industry or how they do self-support one each other – study case of OpenSIPS and SIPhub. This podcast covered the origin of OpenSIPS, the rise of SIPhub as a method to monetize all the knowledge within … Continue reading TADSummit Podcast Episode 8→
Podcast Directory TADSummit Innovators This is an amazing multi-decade review of Dave Horton‘s telecoms journey, through Open Development Systems, Pactolus that supported the prepaid calling card industry so he and Johnny have much in common, to where we are today with Drachtio and Jambonz, enabling CPaaS to run on free and open source software. I … Continue reading TADSummit Podcast Episode 7→
Podcast Directory TADSummit Innovators Today we have a Commio Special podcast with Tim McLain. The 10DLC market is changing rapidly. News released today,: on November 8, 2023, all unverified toll-free phone numbers being used for text messaging will require registration. If everything works that means an more unregistered SMS period. I’m really hoping we see … Continue reading TADSummit Commio Special Podcast→