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
Responding to your requests, here is the all-in-one post, both links and a long block of text, enjoy! Thank you for all your compliments on this work. Truth in A2P SMS, Part 1 of 5, In the Beginning & Foreign SMSCs. https://blog.tadsummit.com/2024/07/29/truth-in-a2p-sms-part-1/ Truth in A2P SMS, Part 2 of 5, Premium SMS. https://blog.tadsummit.com/2024/08/01/truth-in-a2p-sms-part-2-of-5/ Truth in … Continue reading The Definitive Truth in A2P SMS
In this series we will expose the reality of what’s happening in A2P SMS. We’ll review how the current situation can and will be solved through mitigations the industry must adopt. This series is based on extensive research through 2024, it is not a complete exposé. However, the main mechanisms and mitigations are covered. SIM … Continue reading Truth in A2P SMS, Part 4 of 5
TADSummit is the thought-leadership event in programmable communications / telecoms for over ten years. The audience includes CxOs from many of the programmable communication companies, open source leaders, and telcos. It’s a strategy, technology, and reality focused event with no BS. Check out the preview for TADSummit 2024 here https://alanquayle.com/2024/05/tadsummit-tadhack-global-2024/ (10 minute read). You’ll hear … Continue reading TADSummit 2024 Agenda
Podcast Directory Fabrizio Salanitri is the CEO of Horisen (pronounced horizon). Horisen is a pure product house, they develop state-of-the-art messaging solutions, delivered hosted or on-premise. This is a fun discussion that shines a light on a shift happening in the messaging ecosystem, led by Horisen. An example situation, a carrier agrees a gateway or … Continue reading Podcast 72: TADSummit Innovators, Fabrizio Salanitri, Horisen
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 We were planning on bringing guests on soon, and when Robert Vis joined our conversation on Linkedin about renaming MessageBird to Bird, potentially taking over Twilio, and dropping SMS margins by 90%. Well, the opportunity presented itself. You can see below the impact Robert had on the market yesterday. Thanks to Mark Hay … Continue reading Podcast 30: Truth in Telecoms: Flipping the Bird with Robert Vis
Podcast Directory Important Links Please add to this FCC Express Comments on how you and your family and business have suffered from robocalling and robotexting. We all have a duty to help the FCC and Congress understand this remains a significant problem in the US. Here is Mike Rudolph, CTO of YouMail’s request to do … Continue reading Podcast 25: Truth in Telecoms, Moez Kassam Saved Twilio
Podcast Directory The focus of our discussion with Dan is AIT (Artificially Inflated Traffic). Everyone mentions Elon Musk ranting about the 390 telcos stealing $60M from Twitter through traffic pumping. But that is so last year. AIT is being used to destroy the routing tables enterprises (e.g. Google, Meta, Amazon) use for SMS; and because … Continue reading Podcast 24: TADSummit Innovators, Dan Gill, Augnet