In this BIG Interview by ROCCO Radio. Jason Bryan dives into the world of telecom fraud and security with Piotr Szymański, Founder and Managing Director at Jtendo. Piotr is an expert in fraud prevention, with years of experience tackling issues like CLI spoofing, deepfake fraud, and the evolving threats in telecom networks. In this episode, we'll e…

Welcome to another exciting episode of the Eureka Podcast by ROCCO Radio. Today we're thrilled to be joined by Eva Heinze Gildum, Managing Director of Yaana Solutions, a leader in telecom data analytics. Eva has spent her career navigating the telecom industry, from the early days of roaming to cutting-edge AI-driven financial management solutions.…

Our CEO had the pleasure of talking again to Alan Murphy now with VOX Solutions. In this podcast you can discover the future of communication technology with Alan Murphy, VP of Engineering at Vox Solutions.Having spent over two decades at the forefront of telecom innovation, specialising in messaging, roaming, and security products, Alan delves int…

ROCCO is excited to share our latest Eureka Podcast episode, where our CEO, Jason Bryan, engages in a discussion with Mehdi Triki, VP of Sales and Marketing and Co-founder of RoamSmart. Dive into the details of SteerOp, the steering optimizer solution from RoamSmart awarded as the top 3 solution in The Innovators 2023. Delve deeper into understandi…

ROCCO is thrilled to unveil our latest Eureka podcast episode, where our CEO, Jason Bryan, sits down with two brilliant minds at Cellusys - Peter Morgan, Head of Technical Pre-Sales, and Chris Lennartz, VP of Product. Together, they delve into the heart of the SMS messaging industry, sharing their remarkable journey and unveiling their revolutionar…

In this engaging Eureka podcast, our CEO Jason Bryan caught up with Mauro Mele, the Director of Clearing Services at Comfone, to dive deep into their innovative solution ePayments, awarded as the top 1 solution in The Innovators 2023!Mauro shared the inspiring journey behind ePayments, a game-changing solution for the Financial Clearing landscape. …

In this Eureka podcast episode, our CEO Jason Bryan had the pleasure of discussing innovation with Brian Beach, Senior Product Director at Syniverse. Dive in to learn about Syniverse's groundbreaking solution, Evolved Mobility, awarded as the top 2 solution in The Innovators 2023. Evolved Mobility is bridging the gap as networks transition to 5G.If…

ROCCO is thrilled to share an inspiring conversation between our CEO Jason Bryan, Daniel McTague, CTO, and Charles Bernard, Product Manager at Cellusys, on our recent Eureka podcast episode. They shared their incredible journey at the Genesis Hackathon, where their innovation, Roambot, took the roaming industry by storm.Roambot, a groundbreaking so…

Recorded at the end of 2022. In this Well connected podcast we interview Nermeen Sobhy, Vice president Carrier Relations at Cequens. Nermeen was voted the most influential woman in the ROCCO 100 2022. So naturally we wanted to know more about her and her story. In her podcast Nermeen talks about the challenges she faced being a woman in the world o…

A great interview with Anurag Aggarwal the No #1 person in this years ROCCO 100 Research. In his interview Anurag talks about his career in Tata and Tanla, about Blockchain and the future of messaging. This is an inspiring podcast in which we learn a lot about Anurag approached each step of his journey.…

On this Well Connected show I speak with STEPHANIE FLEURY, TV Host for CNN Brasil. I first met Stephanie about 15 years ago while she was working for Mobile operators like TIM, Oi, and Digicel Group, we worked together on global telecoms standards and it was always so interesting to hear her point of view. But it was with a lot of passion and entre…

In 2020 ROCCO announced the 100 most influential people in the telecoms industry following a 6 month period of research. We asked the industry to nominate the most influential people in the sector, we asked them to tell us why they were nominating them and to describe what they felt were the characteristics of influential people. The results were i…

Welcome to The Slice, a series of podcasts dedicated to the industries biggest trends. On this show our CEO Jason Bryan speaks with Henning Lagerbielke, Director, BSS at Enghouse Networks.Following the recent developments by the GSMA in creating the Billing and Charging Evolution, we wanted to get some fresh thinking on what BCE really means for th…

Welcome to The Slice, a series of podcasts dedicated to the industries biggest trends. On this show our CEO Jason Bryan speaks with Henning Lagerbielke, Director, BSS at Enghouse Networks.Following the recent developments by the GSMA in creating the Billing and Charging Evolution, we wanted to get some fresh thinking on what BCE really means for th…

Welcome to The Slice, a series of podcasts dedicated to the industries biggest trends. On this show our CEO Jason Bryan speaks with Henning Lagerbielke, Director, BSS at Enghouse Networks. Following the recent developments by the GSMA in creating the Billing and Charging Evolution, we wanted to get some fresh thinking on what BCE really means for t…

It was a great pleasure for ROCCO Research CEO Jason Bryan to speak with Tom Sofer from TOMIA recently, based in Israel Tom is a specialist in VoLTE Roaming and gave us some unique insights into the challenges and opportunities in the market.بقلم ROCCO

ROCCO Group celebrates its 8th Anniversary, Dhiraj Wazir, Desiree Fenix and Jason Bryan share news from 2020 and announce the winner of the Great Summer Roaming Quiz.بقلم ROCCO

Off the beaten track of what ROCCO Radio normally does, host Jason Bryan interviews his father on entrepreneurship. Telling the story of his career Michael Bryan is not from the telecoms industry but has a lot of advice for budding entrepreneurs.بقلم ROCCO

These days Roaming is front of mind for mobile operators as we consider the global economic impact which Covid 19 has introduced and the effects it will have on the coming years to travel trends and roaming. It's clear Roaming relationships are more important than ever. So while the industry considers its next move many MNOs will be using this time…

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Speaking with associations, Operators, vendors and professionals outside of our immediate industry, ROCCO is trying to learn what other industries are using Blockchain for and how it might help us. Which is why on a recent trip to Australia I was lucky enough to meet Surlak Patel, a specialist consultant in Blockchain, DevOps, Cloud and Product Man…

Speaking to the GSMA, Operators, vendors and professionals outside of our immediate industry ROCCO is trying to learn what other industries are using Blockchain for and how it might help us. Which is why on a recent trip to Australia I was lucky enough to meet Moira Scerri Lecturer and researcher – Operations and Supply Chain Management at the Univ…

For our final ROCCO RADIO podcast of 2018 we’re taking you to Alaska with the wonderful Kim Jakubowski. Kim is Sr. Manager of Roaming Services at Alaska Wireless Network, LLC. Her career story, her insights into US Telecoms over the years, Tech trends, Airline Etiquette and Women in Tech means this podcast has something for everyone. Thanks to all …

Welcome to WELL CONNECTED, on this weeks show I speak with Vedrana Miholic, whom I had the pleasure of meeting recently at the WAS 8 event in Croatia. Vedrana spoke in the Women in Tech sessions at WAS, and it was a great pleasure to get to know her a little better. In her interview Vedrana tells us about her role in Stemi (learning by creating), a…

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.بقلم ROCCO

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.بقلم ROCCO

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 speci…

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 special…

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 Pres…

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)e…

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 spe…

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 …

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 …

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…

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.بقلم ROCCO

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 Mo…

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.بقلم ROCCO

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.بقلم ROCCO

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.بقلم ROCCO

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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 a…

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 Pett…

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 …

Recently we had the opportunity to interview Head of Product Management Mobile Services at iBasis Chris Lennartz.In his interview Chris discusses IPX services in the context of VoLTE, Internet of Things, 5G and how Roaming teams are getting acclimitised to the growth in roaming, following intense Roaming regulations.…