Category Archives: TADS

Major William Peters, Plaintiff, versus Kaleyra, Defendant. Part 1

It’s great the complaint Case 1:23-cv-01051-UNA Document 1 Filed 09/26/23 (+civil cover sheet) is now out in the open, I just received a copy from Bill, there is so much in it. Let’s break it down piece by piece. Remember this is sworn testimony from Bill, if any of it proves false, that’s perjury and […]

Response to Rich Eicher’s Comment on “The Campaign Registry and Foreign Ownership” Linkedin Post Part 1

Hi Rich, thanks so much for your comments, this is exactly what we want, open discussion. Starting with your first comment: Rich Eicher: “The Campaign Registry alone decides whether a political campaign’s text message is appropriate to send to your mobile phone.” – FALSE!” As far as I am aware there are no other options […]

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 […]

Twilio’s Q2 Revenue Jumps, losses halved. An end to the PE Vultures Circling?

Update 1. Wow, this article is generating some discussion and lots of direct messages. I’ve updated to likely make everyone equally annoyed by the analysis. Twilio reported Q2 2023 revenues of $1.04B, and earnings of 54c per share, both above analyst expectations. Earnings were 86% above analyst estimates! The big shift was losses dropping from […]

How can Nokia Leapfrog Ericsson in Programmable Telecoms?

Purpose of this article Ericsson spent $6B on Vonage, we covered it in CXTech Week 47 2021. Simply, they made a mistake through not understanding the programmable telecoms market and the history of telecom APIs in telcos. I made a point in the most recent CXTech Week 31 2023 about how organizational learning in many […]

CXTech Week 47 2022 News and Analysis

The purpose of this CXTech Week 47 2022 newsletter is to highlight, with commentary, some of the news stories in CXTech this week. What is CXTech?  The C stands for Connectivity, Communications, Collaboration, Conversation, Customer; X for Experience because that’s what matters; and Tech because the focus is enablers. You can sign up here to receive the CXTech News […]

It’s All Just Programmable Communications, or Programmable Telecoms if you Prefer

I’ve noticed some common mistakes from analysts when they review the CPaaS, UCaaS, and CCaaS market(s). Or the enterprise communications market (employee and customer) to take a customer-centric view. The mistakes stem from several sources: Grouping aggregators and CPaaS together as ‘CPaaS’ providers, it’s a bifurcated market, as explained in the simple programmable communications model, […]

vCon Workshop Summary

vCon (Github link) is an open standard for conversation data. In December 2021 Thomas Howe, CTO of STROLID, introduced vCon in a keynote. Here is the link to the vCon white paper on Github, and below is the vCon white paper on Slideshare to also view and download. Yes, the white paper is a little long, but […]