Tag Archives: Campaign Service Provider

What’s the plan?

Quite a few people are asking me, what’s the plan? TADSummit has caused a stir on a number of fronts by holding a few organizations / individuals accountable for what they say and do, using publicly available documents and information. There are no fictions in the work, only facts and solid analysis. If someone claims […]

CXTech Week 16 2024 News and Analysis

The purpose of this CXTech Week 16 2024 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 […]

Tata Communications / Kaleyra are at it again, using the TCR mailing list

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) […]

Global Telco Consult’s TCR Report

Global Telco Consult’s TCR (The Campaign Registry) report exists, and can be downloaded here. Remember this is an analyst report, its written for the client: TCR and Kaleyra (now Tata Communications). The ‘Rock Stars’ comment is an example of how the team must be spun in a good light despite all the challenges, this was […]

CXTech Week 9 2024 News and Analysis

The purpose of this CXTech Week 9 2024 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 […]

TCR: Responsibility without Control

TCR (The Campaign Registry, US) Filing to the FCC, Feb 7th 2024 In reviewing FCC filings, TCR made one on February 7, 2024;  after it met with the FCC on February 5, 2024. https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/10207829015272/1. The quote below from the document is the most relevant and critically confirms what we’ve been saying since last year about […]

Was the FCC Lied to? What the FCC was told on SMS spam.

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.” […]

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 […]

Commio Industry Briefing. Top 10 Predictions for Cloud Communications in 2024

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 […]

CXTech Week 47 2023 News and Analysis

The purpose of this CXTech Week 47 2023 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 […]