messaging topics by TJ Thinakaran
Two-factor authentication (2FA) is really just two-password authentication. You’re required to remember one long-term password and one short-term password. If you rarely use the system…
Attentive hit 620 million texts on Black Friday; Klaviyo sent 420 million messages (email + text) in just one hour that day. Building on last…
Shopify merchants smashed records with $5 billion in Black Friday sales, peaking at $4.6 million per minute. If Shopify had a banner season, you can…
Some unsolicited career advice: When the platform owner invites you to partner with them, say yes. In telecom, if an operator asks for your help,…
The WSJ's Joanna Stern recently highlighted the frustrations many of us share around text messaging spam, and the tools and tactics she covered were spot-on—some…
The first woman to win the Marconi Prize; a spectrum auction innovator and trailblazing regulator; and two entrepreneurs who brought wireless connectivity to underserved areas.…
The morning of my fireside chat with Vonage CEO Niklas Heuveldop at the ConnectMobile stage, the GSMA released a report stating that wireless operators were…
Like last year, this year’s Somos Summit exceeded expectations. There were new voices and topics but the recurring theme was the same: to trust more,…
I started my plea to invest aggressively in RCS with thirteen rapid-fire questions to assess your RCS readiness. Some of you shared that you had…
Did the “Hello World” version of your RCS demo embarrass you? Does your company have a public RCS demo? How does your customer get started?…
Describing iConectiv merely as a number information provider would be an oversimplification. In North America alone, it operates three core registries: LERG (how phone calls…
An "FU Meter" measures aggregate negative responses to a text messaging campaign. While standard opt-out monitoring captures responses to explicit commands like STOP, END, or…