Tag Archives: TCR

Podcast 33: Truth in Telecoms, Before Bird / After Bird (BB/AB)

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 21: Truth in Telecoms, The 250B INR Tata Communications Short

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

Podcast 20: TADSummit Innovators, Gerry Christensen, Caller ID Reputation

Podcast Directory Gerry Christensen and I have known each other for about 2 decades, since his Mind Commerce days. He’s supported TADSummit over the years and provides excellent, insightful, and highly relevant presentations: The focus of our discussion was robocalling. We discussed how STIR/SHAKEN was not implemented on the PSTN gateways, only the VoIP gateways … Continue reading Podcast 20: TADSummit Innovators, Gerry Christensen, Caller ID Reputation

Podcast 17: Truth in Telecoms, Top 10 Predictions for Cloud Communications in 2024 from Commio

Johnny introduces why these predictions matter and are worth your time. He also gives a preview of the next Truth in Telecoms planned for Monday 18th Dec. Lots of activity from the FCC further stifling legal A2P SMS, Twilio’s arming up to fight the activist investors, and lots more.. I don’t normally do predictions as … Continue reading Podcast 17: Truth in Telecoms, Top 10 Predictions for Cloud Communications in 2024 from Commio

Podcast 15: Truth in Telecoms. Booyah! A line in the sand.

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 11, Truth in Telecoms, What did Tata Buy?

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?

TADSummit Podcast Episode 7

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

TADSummit Podcast Episode 6

Podcast Directory – you’ll see we have a TADSummit Podcast Special on Wednesday 11th Oct with Tim McLain from Commio. TADSummit Innovators, Mike Bromwich and Tim Dowling introduce Stacuity, the programmable IoT network. This is a great introduction to how Stacuity began, why they are creating a new category of a developer centric programmable IoT … Continue reading TADSummit Podcast Episode 6

TADSummit Podcast Episode 5

Podcast Directory TADSummit Innovators, we focus on TADSummit sponsor Unifonic and their CTO/CPO Karim Zaki. Founded in 2006, Unifonic is a programmable telecoms powerhouse in the Middle East. They’ve built a strong business in the region, with communication solutions for enterprises across many sectors, and in compliance with each countries’ regulations. It’s a well defended … Continue reading TADSummit Podcast Episode 5

TADSummit Podcast Episode 2

Podcast Directory This second podcast is divided into 2 sections TADSummit Innovators where we focus on Voxist and their CEO Karel Bourgois. Truth_In_Telecoms with Johnny Tarone We kick off with some background on TCRA (TCR Acquisition) and their kerfuffle with Kaleyra. We do ramble off a little in the last 5-10 minutes, but it does … Continue reading TADSummit Podcast Episode 2