Introduction Businesses in LATAM are being subjected to 250%, 267%, and 6600% price increases for international A2P SMS as global aggregators squeeze out the local aggregators. And we’re seeing even local A2P SMS price increases of 1125%. I’ve been hearing quite a few complaints about SMS pricing in Latin America from brands and local aggregators. […]
The interview with Robert Vis, founder and CEO of Bird, motivated me to write this post on the net negative contribution of some industry fora. I’ve run TADS for 11 years, delivered only events, TADSummit and TADHack, they are a chance for the industry to meet with no BS, and for developers to learn the latest in […]
On May 3, 2024, the Voice on the Net Coalition (VON), met via video conference with the FCC. This document summarizes what VON proposed at that meeting. The companies behind VON are much more than those listed on their website. It includes the likes of Microsoft (hence the focus on UCaaS, Microsoft Teams), Google, Amazon, […]
Unibeam, a SIM applet approach to mobile authentication, verification and fraud prevention. It collects and binds user authentication directly from within the SIM. Because it is based on the SIM as an applet, it can also trigger pop-up messages and questions to the users, which enables new use cases that require user-validated information and acknowledgment. […]
Yet another irate CSP (Campaign Service Provider) contacted me after they received this email from a Tata Communications / Kaleyra employee: In the US, we’re directly connected to T-Mobile, Verizon & AT&T SMS gateways so its lot cheaper working with us. We also own the 10DLC Campaign Registry and support many Campaign Service Providers (CSPs) […]
I was reviewing the replies to FCC’s Targeting and Eliminating Unlawful Text Messages, CG Docket No. 21-402 published in 2022. You can see all of the replies here. Some that drew my attention are listed below. The Campaign Registry (TCR) Reply. Before we begin: The FCC document is about “Targeting and Eliminating Unlawful Text Messages.” […]
Background The next chapter of our messaging monopolies series is about as typical as any story of unchecked greed and power can be. Unlike the tragedy of the small business victim in the Messaging Monopolies post, Jenny’s Construction & Design Services (Jenny’s), who’d successfully led a business category for one decade. But couldn’t compete with […]
I don’t normally do predictions as they’re: generally statements of the obvious, or woefully optimistic predictions, or framed with weasel-words so no matter what happens it can be claimed to be at least partially correct. However, Tim from Commio is a nice guy, he asked if I would put some predictions together, so I had […]
Responding to several reader requests, this post is a simplified version of the original Messaging Monopolies, with more background explanations, a few analogies, and less assumptions made on the readers’ detailed knowledge of the US SMS industry. It is longer, but I hope makes things a little clearer. In the Appendix we walk through a […]
Subtitle: US #SMSspam club’s EBITDA is $2.4B The motivation to create this post came in part from a post by James Crawshaw of Omdia on the movie, “The Network”. James referred to the monopolies in America, and how AT&T was broken up and then put together again by bankers with the exception of Verizon (Bell […]