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I was delighted to talk to Jonathan Power, the CEO of St Michaels House Foundation about how he is seeking to build partnerships with people and corporates who would like to know more about, or to help out, St Michael’s House.  His approach is to develop longer term relationships and to engage with people who are interested. St Michaels House is a not-for-profit that is over 70 years old and has b...

Pieter Oonk, Serial Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Syncmint talks about his new company that measures TV Ad views (linear and streaming) at “the edge” and presents a new and exciting data opportunity to advertisers. “We were thinking about where else could you innovate in this space from a consumer centric, consumer centrism perspective, as well as from a cost perspective, if you were to change ho...

Steve van Zanen is Head of Product and Marketing and also a Co-Founder at BroadForward and a Mobile Industry stalwart.  I’ve known Steven for many years and always admired his communications and business skills and how he and the BroadForward team developed a great company supplying to the Signalling Market from scratch. BroadForward is leader in intelligent signalling software for 2G, 3G, 4G and...

We’re delighted to speak with Sinead Crowther, CEO and Co-Founder at Soothing Solutions about her journey from an idea to a growing business. Founders Sinead Crowther and Denise Lauaki’s mission is to transform Pharmacy shelves with award winning natural products to support Mams, Dads and care-givers when their children are sick.  Their main product right now is very popular Tonstix Pops to reliev...

We’re delighted to speak with Paul Walsh, one of the Tech industry’s Experts on preventing Fraud and Smishing.  Paul is the founder and CEO of MetaCert. Paul has a very interesting career, which he covers some of in the Pod. He was one of the early movers in the field of Scam Detection and prevention. Paul’s career highlights include: Leading messaging infrastructure testing for mobile operators a...

We’re delighted to speak with James Williams, one of the Tech industry’s best-known Marketeers, Growth Advisors and Brand Ambassadors. James updates us on his latest projects working with Freename and with Mackie Mobile. James talks to us about Freename and the scope of Web3, the Blockchain and Digital Identity and how all of these will be revolutionized by Web3, in a very interesting discussion....

We’re delighted to speak with Sean Blanchfield, one of Ireland’s best known technology entrepreneurs, he has a great history of founding successful startups such as Jentic AI, PageFair and DemonWare. Sean’s new company, Jentic AI, connects AI agents to the world's APIs and workflows.   He also covers topics such as Data Centres, Energy and AI in general, all with insightful comments. One of Sean’s...

I asked Roslyn Layton PhD, of Strand Consult, on the Good, Bad and Ugly Telco Podcast after I read the Strand Consult Research Note on why Hyperscalers need to come under some form of Regulation and should contribute to the Universal Service Fund (US). To quote Strand’s Research Note While profiting significantly from the $9 billion USF, Big Tech does not contribute to the program. Instead, the US...

I asked John Strand, of Strand Consult, on the Good, Bad and Ugly Telco Podcast after I read his Research Note on the misinformed (and it turned out predictable outcome) takeover of TDC seven years ago.  To give some context to this, TDC was the well capitalised incumbent operator with over a century of service, and it is now facing an uncertain future. To quote John’s Research Note In a significa...

We were delighted to talk to our good friends Luke and Deryck in this Telco Industry Review Special Luke Kehoe is a well-known Industry Analyst with Ookla, he provides very insightful and data based reporting on the state of the Telco, Mobile and Fixed, and the implications for the future of the industry. Deryck Fay is an experienced Requirements Guru, Product Owner, Agile Transformer and author ‘...

We were delighted to talk to our good friend Dr Roslyn Layton talking about how we can ensure that the Mobile and Broadband Industries become attractive for investment.  We are in the sorry state where the long-term Capital Return in the Mobile and Broadband industries are effectively zero or negative. In comparison the Big Tech Industries who are the main users of these Networks have returns up t...

We were delighted to talk to our good friend Michael Becker about Personal ID and Personal Data online. Michael is an expert and visionary in this important and constantly developing area that is becoming more and more critical to the Digital World. Michael updates us on the Mobile Ecosystem Forum Conference in London on the 21 / 22 May 2024. The conference is free and both in person and online –...

We were delighted to talk to Matthew Hewston, who is Co-Founder of PassionFruit.  Matthew has a background in Marketing and spent five years at Google developing his skills and networks. We’ve often lamented the lack of marketing innovation in the Telecoms and the PassionFruit team have come up with a great proposition to totally change the marketing of Telecoms services. The availability of eSIMs...

We were delighted to talk to James Williams, well known Telecoms Industry Enabler and Communicator.  James is now VP Business Development for XConnect (a Somos company). We talk about James’s career and how he moved into Telecoms.  We discuss the power of Mobile Operator Brands and how the potential market share for Messaging Services in the SME sector is still not being tapped into fully. James p...

We have a very interesting guest on the Podcast this week.  Deryck Fay has written a fascinating book about the history of Telecoms in Ireland called “Connecting a Nation” and it’s a very surprising history.  Its starts in the 1850s, yes, when the first sub-sea cables were being laid and Ireland was the natural hub for the first Transatlantic cables.  Later its proximity to Nova Scotia made it the...

We were delighted to talk to Luke Kehoe, Telecoms Analyst and World Traveler.  Luke has moved to Beijing to study, and he gives us his impression of the city, the food, and the consumer digital ecosystem.  Luke updates us on a range of important Telecoms Industry topics. He comments on the state of the Global RAN market, contrasting growth across the various regions. Luke gives us his views on whe...

We were delighted to talk to Niall Norton, ex-CEO of Openet (an Amdocs company)  about the success that Openet is now. Niall talks about his early career and how he gained experience across a number of industries before deciding to move into the Telecoms Software Infrastructure space. Over the years Niall and the Openet team built the company into an incredible success and secured some of the larg...

We were delighted to talk to Neil Wisdom, CEO of Siprotect about Fraud and Hacking in Voice and VOIP. Neil's company provides a comprehensive suite of solutions to detect and prevent this hacking, using a range of techniques such as their software solution which implements Firewalling, Session Border Controllers and the latest intelligence on what’s actually happening in the wild.  Neil also talks...

  We have a great Podcast with Sheila Kavanagh, who is Chief Network Officer of Vodafone Ireland. We start by learning about Sheila’s career, she started with Eircell and that was ultimately taken over by the Vodafone Group.  Being a Network Engineer at the time, she was delighted to get the assignment to develop the Roaming Business as this gave her great International Experience and travel oppor...

There was very big news in the Messaging Industry last week, after a decade since Apple launched iMessage and Google had standardised on RCS, Apple announced that it plans to support RCS in 2024.  This will mean messaging interoperability between iOS and Android phones.  But what does it mean for the A2P or Rich Messaging Business (RBM)? We reached out to Bill Dudley of Sinch to get his informed o...

We have a great guest with Patrick Lopez, Telecoms Analyst, who provides us with insights into how Mobile Operators can fully exploit the opportunities provided by 5G Network-as-a-Service Patrick has vast amount of experience in Telco and Cloud implementation and he advises on strategy -  his experience includes working as a vendor, an operator and an analyst Among the topics discussed we cover Ho...

We’re delighted to talk to John Strand of Strand Consult, based in Copenhagen Denmark.  John has extensive experience of providing Consulting services to the Mobile Industry, John relates the intriguing story of Huawei and TDC in Denmark and how pressure was applied to the Danish Government to lobby TDC to choose Huawei Infrastructure. To the question “Is Huawei Dangerous?” John has a very simple...

We have a great guest with Luke Kehoe, Telecoms Analyst, who provides us with an insightful analysis of the Irish Telecoms Market.  The issues faced by the Operators in the Irish Market are common to Operators in all Mature markets which makes the analysis interesting Among the topics discussed we cover The 5G Investment Cycle The opportunities of O-RAN Industry Consolidation Who will win between...

It was great to catch up with our friend Bill Dudley of Sinch today.  Bill always has great insights into the Messaging and CPaaS Industries. Bill and his colleagues have developing the 10 Digit Long Code (10DLC) service for Non-Consumer to Consumer messaging in the North American market under the auspices of the CTIA, and he explains this development and the technical and legal issues behind it....

We are delighted to present Michael Becker (Advisor, Author and Speaker) as a Special Guest on the Good, Bad and Ugly Innovation Podcast Michael is a World Class Expert in Online ID and Authentication and is a deep thinker about the possibilities, the pitfalls and the potential of Online ID.  He talks through the possibilities and the pitfalls in this tour-de-force Podcast. We cover a wide range o...