May 5 · 8 min read · There are approximately 6.4 million cell towers worldwide. Each one has power. Cooling. Backhaul connectivity. Permits that took years to obtain. Physical security. And right now, roughly 70% of their compute capacity sits idle. This week at Mobile W...
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Apr 3 · 3 min read · For years, the idea of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) has been everywhere. Build fast.Launch early.Fix things later. That playbook worked for apps.It worked for SaaS.It worked for e-commerce experim
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Apr 2 · 5 min read · We recently observed a service that was fully designed in under a week: product definition completed, pricing approved, and network feasibility validated. Deployment, however, took six weeks — not bec
Join discussionFeb 9 · 2 min read · If you work close to telecom systems, you’ve probably noticed this already:billing and charging failures now surface faster than network failures. Not because networks got worse — but because everything around them got more software-heavy. As we move...
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Jan 27 · 4 min read · Every MVNO founder eventually runs into the same realization: telecom looks straightforward from the outside, but underneath, it’s deeply complex. Before a single customer signs up, you’re already dealing with provisioning workflows, billing logic, S...
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Jan 16 · 4 min read · The network still matters. But software now decides speed, scale, and relevance. Telecom hasn’t lost its importance.What it has lost is a shared understanding of where value is now created. For most of its history, the industry could draw a straight ...
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Jan 15 · 4 min read · When telecom APIs struggle to behave in real time, the problem is rarely at the API layer. Teams often blame gateways, authentication, or poor endpoint design. Fixes follow predictably: more caching, more abstraction, more middleware. Yet the experie...
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Jan 9 · 14 min read · Originally published at Gothar Tech Part of our 2025 software architecture series. Design for Settlement in 2025: A Playbook for Telecom, Banking, and Utilities Money systems fail when they optimize for screens before they optimize for settlement. ...
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Jan 7 · 3 min read · For decades, telecom competition was shaped by spectrum, infrastructure scale, and pricing power. That era is fading fast. Today, the real battleground is developers—and the tools telcos give them to build, test, and monetize new services. APIs, SDKs...
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