Tag Archives: Direct Connect Aggregator

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 […]

Messaging Monopolies Simplified

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 […]

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 […]