eSIM is now mainstream eSIM has gone mainstream, we’ve seen lots of eSIM coverage before this year’s MWC, which Stuart is attending. This session is a chance to understand what is the reality behind the hype. I was channelling GSMA marketing in the title for this session, Camara is an example of a overly hyped … Continue reading eSIM, to Infinity and Beyond! With Stuart Mitchell
Thanks to Slava for arranging this meeting. Vance Shipley is the founder and CEO of Sigscale. Sigscale delivers signaling and distributed fault tolerant systems. They have developed their protocol stacks (SIGTRAN, TCAP, CAP, MAP, NGAP, RADIUS, EAP) in Erlang, allowing them to build microservices with very low footprint and massive scalability. The High School Drop, … Continue reading Vance Shipley Interview and Erlang in Telecom Use Cases
Time flies! Preparing for a more Complex Future. It’s been 2 years since we last talked with Karim, This session is long overdue, and shares an open and honest review on the status of programmable communications in the Middle East, with a focus on AI Back in 2023 Karim gave a session on Unifonic’s origin … Continue reading TADSummit online Conference, AI in the Middle East, Karim Zaki, Unifonic
Preface Unfortunately FC has a family issue, one we all face in our lives. He and his wife are in the UK for that. We wish them the best of strength. His email came in after midnight. Given we were all meeting that day, we decided to discuss the analysis of the SKT hack published … Continue reading SKT Hack Debrief
We had a last minute schedule change, and Bohdan was willing to jump in at the last minute. This session is based on the conversation we were having about RCS security, as the schedule problem arose. There is a mixed reaction to RCS, and has little to do with the technology, rather the unthinking hype. … Continue reading TADSummit online Conference, RCS Security, Bohdan Hopanchuk
Six months ago Igor took part in TADSummit Podcast 96: TADSummit Innovators. Clerk Chat founded by Alexander Haque, Igor Boshoer, and Will Chertoff, raised $7M in seed funding in October 2024. They enable AI agents across messaging channels that work on behalf of their customers’ businesses for support, sales and marketing. This was a chance to catch up on Clerk … Continue reading TADSummit online Conference, Clerk Chat Part 2, The RCS Demos, Igor Boshoer
Before John Stuckey joined us at TADSummit one of his Linkedin posts achieved 48k impressions, likely more than 50k impressions by now., RCS: Trojan Horse or Telco Opportunity?. Why was a post showing MMS still has life so popular? That’s what we’ll cover in this session. We began with some background about John, beginning with … Continue reading TADSummit online Conference, The Australian Election. Which messaging technology won? MMS, SMS or RCS? John Stuckey.
Bohdan Hopanchuk, a TADSummit regular, introduced his friend Jack Sessions, a Security Researcher (Mobile). Jack was a bounty hunter for the US DSS (Diplomatic Security Service). Helped 12 countries’ security services find and track cyber criminals. Contributes to many open source projects with a focus on mobile security and AppSec. This was an around the … Continue reading TADSummit Online Conference, 16 April, Threat Models and Counter Intelligence
Welcome to the second TADSummit Online 2025 Conference Session. We plan to run these once per week, and as always delivering honest insight. No BS, it’s in our policies. The presenter is Michael Lamb, President / Co-founder of nativeMsg. Michael and I got chatting over Linkedin, as we chatted I discovered someone focused on the truth … Continue reading TADSummit Online Conference, 19 March. From the Trenches, RCS / RBM (RCS Business Messaging)
Welcome to the first TADSummit Online 2025 Conference Session. We plan to run these once per week, and as always delivering honest insight. No BS, it’s in our policies. The group of people included: Kevin Graham, Bohdan Hopanchuck, Noah Rafalko, Johnny, Dennis Kersten (audience), Ahmed Serag (audience), and myself. Aaron Birnbaum was without power so missed … Continue reading TADSummit Online Conference, 12 March. Google rejects SMS OTP for QR Codes? I understand the SMS bit, but QR codes?