Category Archives: Programmable Communications

When Power goes Unchecked: The Telecom Triopoly

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 […]

Messaging Monopolies

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 […]

Understanding TCR and Kaleyra Part 2

Thank you to everyone who has let me interview them and view extensive documentation. I’m attempting to take a mountain of information into a few bite-sized chunks. This is part 2 of a 2 part weblog focused on understanding TCR and Kaleyra. What kicked this off was the post The Campaign Registry and Foreign Ownership: […]

Understanding TCR and Kaleyra Part 1

Thank you to everyone who let me interview them and view extensive documentation. I’m attempting to take a mountain of information into a few bite-sized chunks. This is part 1 of a 2 part weblog. What kicked this off was the post The Campaign Registry and Foreign Ownership: A Matter of National Security, which acted […]

IoT SIM Testing with Stacuity

On 21-22 October 2023 we have TADHack Global. Stacuity is a global sponsor. One of the many sponsor benefits of TADHack is being able to test your SIMs globally. I received a couple of Stacuity SIMs for testing on the US networks, as well as some stickers! I found my SIM tray pin thingy, as […]

Programmable Communications and CPaaS are Different

CPaaS Should Not be Used Interchangeable with Programmable Communications I’ve pointed out CPaaS (Communications Platform as a Service) is a dumb term since its creation. Analysts are paid by vendors, products are defined so analysts can write reports about them to help vendors sell those products. I’ve begrudgingly used CPaaS, as when I use the […]