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After 1 year of ROCCO RADIO we present our latest Well Connected podcast featuring James Williams from Mr Connectivity. In his podcast James tells us about his long career in Telecoms as well as a wealth of knowledge in the Mobile Engagement sector.

As Pontus says in his own words. He's more of a revolutionary than an evolutionary. From Telia to Twilio we finally got to sit down with one of our industries more well known Telecoms gurus.

ROCCO RADIO presents Mastermind Series One featuring 5 challengers from the telecoms industry who must select 3 categories and answer 9 unknown strategic questions. The Challenger who after two weeks who gets the most likes on ROCCO's LinkedIn page post will win a prize. Todays challenger is Barna Kutvolgyi, Managing Director at JT Group. His specialist topics are 1)Blockchain, 2)OTTs 3)Mystery. L...

ROCCO RADIO presents Mastermind Series One featuring 5 challengers from the telecoms industry who must select 3 categories and answer 9 unknown strategic questions. The Challenger who after two weeks who gets the most likes on ROCCO's LinkedIn page post will win a prize. Todays challenger is Dean Bubley, Director at Disruptive Analysis. His specialist topics are 1)Blockchain, 2)5G and 3)Mystery. L...

ROCCO RADIO presents Mastermind Series One featuring 5 challengers from the telecoms industry who must select 3 categories and answer 9 unknown strategic questions. The Challenger who after two weeks who gets the most likes on ROCCO's LinkedIn page post will win a prize. Todays challenger is Roee Froman, Director, Product Management and Global Presales at Starhome Mach. His specialist topics are 1...

ROCCO RADIO presents Mastermind Series One featuring 5 challengers from the telecoms industry who must select 3 categories and answer 9 unknown strategic questions. The Challenger who after two weeks who gets the most likes on ROCCO's LinkedIn page post will win a prize. Todays challenger is Rami Avidan, CEO Tele2 IoT. His specialist topics are 1)eSIM, 2)IoT and 3)Roaming. Lets see how he copes wi...

ROCCO RADIO presents Mastermind Series One featuring 5 challengers from the telecoms industry who must select 3 categories and answer 9 unknown strategic questions. The Challenger who after two weeks who gets the most likes on ROCCO's LinkedIn page post will win a prize. Todays challenger is Öykü Mengenli, Director of Roaming from Mobileum. Her specialist topics are 1)Roaming, 2)OTTs and 3)our Mys...

It was with great pleasure that recently we had the chance to catch up with Arthur Panos Director of Roaming at the Bridge Alliance. In his interview Arthur told us about his story in Vodafone Group, retail trends in Asia, regulations in Australia and beyond and the great work of the Bridge Alliance in bringing MNOs together across Asia and Africa.

Bay is known as BetaBay because of his passion for testing new technologies and always trying to improve himself. Bay is a leader in the world of startups and has built his career by helping startup ideas come to life. Reading his career story from Apple to Brinc.io I thought the telecoms community who listen to our podcasts would like to hear his story. In his interview Bay discusses his days in...

In 2008 Stephen Ornadel led innovative changes to the International standards for fraud prevention for MNOs, engaging MNOs globally and the whole vendor community to embrace stricter measures for fraud prevention which today have become ubitquitous globally. It was a great pleasure therefore to get the whole career story from Steve, from his first days as a mobile operator in TMobile, through his...

In this weeks well connected we're in Dubai with Tom Noel, MD of the International Division of JT Global. Over the 13 years we have watched JT evolve, they have gone from being a small telecoms operator in the Channel Islands to being a truly international wholesale provider to all kinds of businesses globally. So it was great pleasure that we got to know one of the people whom is part of that dri...

One of the chief architects of Roaming in Africa and Nigeria Consolata Ugboko. Consolata talks to us about her career, how she got into telecoms and what she thinks to the telecoms market today. Listen up to this latest episode in the Well Connected series.

In this Newsdesk we try and provide 99% coverage of the some of the key themes at the recent WAS meeting with a number of interviews with thought leaders that we met at the conference. We hear from Sonia Harjani from Travelling Connect about their new trading platform solution for handling IOT negotiations. We also chatted with Sarah Barakat from Monty about their new solution known as the MReward...

This is the first Eureka! Podcast from ROCCO RADIO. Eureka! is a series of podcasts dedicated to innovation in our industry. This first podcast features Hugh Carberry from Anam Technologies talking about his Eureka! moment building the perfect MNO focussed reporting solution for Anam.

Copper Horse’s CEO, David Rogers had a chat with Rocco’s Jason Bryan for the Rocco Radio Newsdesk about the launch of the UK government’s Secure by Design launch and the Code of Practice on IoT security. The government’s Secure by Design report is available here.

Recently we met with the Jerry Raatikainen! C.E.O. of UROS Finland, Swedish and a fan of Rock and Roll he is a real personality and shared with us his insights on UROS's work on the Internet of Things, eSIM and of course the world famous Goodspeed mifi device.

In this Newsdesk we try and provide 99% coverage of the some of the key themes at MWC 18 with a number of interviews with though leaders that we met at the conference. We hear from Henry Hayter Senior Director of product Management at Transaction Network Services (TNS) bringing a US perspective of the scale up on VoLTE Interconnect, Roaming and Iot. Ajay Joseph, CTO at iBasis talks to us about the...

It is always a great pleasure to get new insights in the market. Syniverse is a name that many Mobile Operators and Enterprises around the world will know well. They've been a pioneer in mobile for over 25 years and today connect more than 1,500 mobile operators, enterprises, ISPs and OTTs in almost 200 countries. In our Interview with Syniverse we tackled John Wick Vice President and General Mana...

Recently we were truly inspired by our Well Connected interview with Hannah Metcalfe Country Manager – Tanzania and Kenya at Viamo – changing lives via mobile. What Hannah’s role is and what her background and personal goals showed us that theres truly a strong and important role for mobile engagement in Africa even without a smartphone, especially for people who genuinely want to change lives.

Last June we uncovered the tier one vendors in our A2P SMS Messaging Vendor Performance Report. Route Mobile were one of those tier one vendors. We had the chance to interview Rajdip Gupta, Group CEO of Route Mobile Ltd. In his BIG Interview Rajdip discusses the acquisition of 365 Squared, RCS and the future plans of Route Mobile Ltd.

Here at ROCCO it is always a great pleasure to interview people with passion, ambition and intelligence and Vicky Sleight expresses all of these facets with real personality. In this podcast we talk to Vicky about her career in telecoms, working for BT Cellnet, Motorola and the GSMA and how now as an entrepreneur via her company Perfect Ltd, Vicky is taking on diversity and inclusion challenges in...

In this first podcast of 2018 we bring you a BIG Interview. I was lucky enough to Interview one of the tier one vendors in our recent report ANAM Technologies. Joining me online were CTO John Murtagh and CCO Mr Darcy himself. In their interview, Brian and John tell us about their secret sauce for making a leading SMS Firewall, we talk about the new Technology hub that Dublin has become and whats n...

This weeks Well Connected was recorded in Montego Bay Jamaica where I was lucky enough to be invited to present and hold workshops with the MNO team at the 10th Digicel International Business Forum. While I was there I had the opportunity to catch up with one of the industries most known International Business Managers, Group Head of Roaming, A2P and IoT at Digicel Group, Alex Perera.

In all aspects of Telecoms we come to the question is it better to offer a service which is economical or that is focussed on high quality. Mostly we settle in the middle somewhere, but clearly the options are cultural and differ from one country to the next. Recently I had the great pleasure to talk to one of industries quality gurus, Torbjorn Pettersson from Telia Carrier. His insights and scope...

One company known for leadership in the Mobile Engagement space is Infobip. Reaching tier 1 in ROCCO’s A2P SMS and SMS Firewall Vendor Performance reports. They are a company that from the feedback we have received, MNOs clearly admire and want to work with in this space. It was therefore a great pleasure to recently meet ELVINO KRIZMANIC Director of Channel Partnerships and RENATA STEFIC Director...