Telecom Carriers
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Hemeraj: High Buyer Concentration in Wireless Telecom Stifles Innovation
“Wireless industry was an industry where, you know, there are only four customers in every geo. Right, you know, be it you know, US, Canada, you look at it, there are only four to five major players. It means that most of the buyer power is with them, and they …”
Gurley: Top four telecom firms' market share jumped from 48% to 85% post-1996
“In 1996, the top four had 48% market share. Four, five years later, after this heralded legislation, they're up to 85%.”
Major telecom carriers launched API side projects during Twilio's early years
“And actually it's during the period of time Byron was talking about almost every major carrier did have an API program, believe it or not, but it were like small side project.”
Telecom carriers pay FreeConferenceCall.com directly to route cross-country traffic
“Oh, so, you know, what's interesting is, is a lot of it came from actually taking the free conference call network and exposing it to, you know, the big carriers. So a lot of our connectivity now is direct. So where the carriers pay us to actually transport th…”