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
A big thank you to Strolid and TSG Global for sponsoring TADSummit. They understand the importance of focusing on the reality of today’s diverse markets. I’m grateful to all the presenters, they know programmable communications can step up to the current challenges using their innovations. Some of the recent content worth your time includes: TADSummit is the … Continue reading TADSummit 2024: Leading Innovation in Programmable Communications
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
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 This is a new channel on the TADSummit Podcast, Truth in AI. After the impressive hacks created on SWAIG, SignalWire AI Gateway, thanks to the excellent tooling and resources created by Brian West. He was the perfect first guest. I strongly recommend you review the SWAIG Best Practices. Here are some of the … Continue reading Podcast 66: Truth in AI, Brian West, SignalWire
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 This week provided direct objective evidence that CPaaS is no longer the acronym to use with Wall Street. Twilio’s results exceeded most analysts’ expectations, but the outlook and Segment review sent the stock in decline, see below. Sinch who produced good results maintaining gross margin at 33.5% and revenue growth. Initially went up, … Continue reading Podcast 35: Truth in Telecoms, Good Grief Charlie Brown
Podcast Directory Before Bird was a time when the A2P SMS industry was comfortable in scamming / overchargin enterprises, innovators and consumers. Then came a time AB (After Bird) when Bird shone the light of truth on the dirty tricks being played. Check out Podcast 30: Truth in Telecoms: Flipping the Bird with Robert Vis … Continue reading Podcast 33: Truth in Telecoms, Before Bird / After Bird (BB/AB)
Podcast Directory Best wishes for the New Year to the TADS community and everyone that follows the TADSummit Podcast. Over the holidays’ period so much happened! Johnny’s been studying Tata Communications, they’ve had a massive run up, from 330 INR to 1750 INR. We covered in the TADSummit Innovators interview with UIB who is no … Continue reading Podcast 21: Truth in Telecoms, The 250B INR Tata Communications Short