A spam-free network exists solely in marketing copy. All networks, regardless of size, experience spam. Every network operator recognizes this and relies on feedback loops…
Recently, I had the opportunity to organize the content for the Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF) leadership conference in Miami, an event that brought together some…
UCLA Anderson School of Management has a Business Creation Option (BCO) as part of its MBA program. Students can elect to take two quarters (twenty…
Today, recipient feedback is a blunt instrument. You can either entirely block a number on your device, or submit the offending message to 7726 and…
"In many deals, people get so focused on the wedding, they forget about the marriage.", says Huggy Rao when describing why 50% of M&A deals…
There are 7 billion textable cell phones deployed on 750 mobile networks. This ubiquity and diffused oversight makes SMS spam impossible to stop and unwieldy…
I did not consent to any of the political text messages I received in the last election cycle. Not one. It didn’t matter whether I…
Editor's Note: Thomas M. Johnson Jr. was the General Counsel of the FCC from 2017-2021. As general counsel through most of Ajit Pai's tenure as chairman, Johnson…
"Unprecedented," "never before," "for the first time" are some of the terms used when describing current times. But when every unforeseen event is catastrophic and…
I blog on Software, Startups, and Simplicity, where I make the case that building software and running software companies has gotten unnecessarily complex. It doesn't…
With nine weeks left in the year, many SaaS leaders are looking at their revenue dashboards rather nervously. If you foresaw how tough Q4 would…
One of the highlights of my September was the recently concluded Mobile Ecosystem Forum’s MEF Connects USA conference. I helped bring together a lot of…