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Why nobody loves telcos?
7+ hour, 28+ min ago (277+ words) Look at the machine the telecom industry built. It is, without exaggeration, the most complex and astonishing technological achievement in human history. Right now, it seamlessly connects 6 billion human beings and 21 billion machines. It works everywhere, anytime, and almost for…...
The NVIDIA Telco AI Token Cook
20+ hour, 20+ min ago (215+ words) Telcos, you are sitting on the greatest distribution network in existence. You control the sovereign power grids, the advanced cooling, and the global fiber backbones. With the latest NVIDIA Cloud Partner reference architecture, you now possess the exact formula to…...
Telco layoffs will accelerate. .. and don't blame AI
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (244+ words) Sebastian Barros Newsletter Why the structural contraction of the telecommunications industry is a financial exorcism, not a technological shift. As a follow-up to our ongoing tracking of the telecommunication market, the structural contraction we've been mapping is visibly accelerating. The…...
Can AST Space Mobile Actually Save Telcos from Elon?
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (176+ words) Sebastian Barros Newsletter Can AST Space Mobile Actually Save Telcos from Elon? As Space X's $1. 6 trillion direct-to-device ambition threatens to bypass legacy carriers entirely, the telecommunications industry is organizing around AST Space Mobile as its definitive shield. The Space X…...
Yes, Starlink is coming for the whole $1. 6 Trillion Telecom market.
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (261+ words) The financial press is currently tying itself in knots trying to reverse-engineer the math behind Space X's proposed $1. 75 trillion IPO valuation. The short answer? The math does not work. Not on today's fundamentals, anyway. At a blistering 94x price-to-sales multiple, you…...
Wow. Telco AI tokens are out.
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (196+ words) Sebastian Barros Newsletter Wow. Telco AI tokens are out. China's operators move beyond bandwidth to monetize intelligence, ushering in the 'Token Economy' on consumer phone bills. From Gigabytes to AI tokens? Artificial Intelligence, once a concept confined to science fiction,…...
10 Things Telco can sell to humanoids
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (179+ words) Sebastian Barros Newsletter 10 Things Telco can sell to humanoids Selling Gigabytes per month to humans didn't work out well for Telcos. So, what are we going to sell to humanoids to change the game? Humanoids are here to stay! On…...
Twilio Shares Surged 60% on Voice AI. Thanks, Telcos.
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (157+ words) Twilio's latest quarterly financials just delivered a tour de force in margin asymmetry, posting its highest growth rates in over three years. The primary catalyst? A massive 20% year-over-year acceleration in Voice revenue. Yes! The exact same voice utility that telecom…...
Defense Is the Next Big Telco Customer
1+ week, 10+ hour ago (131+ words) Sebastian Barros Newsletter Defense Is the Next Big Telco Customer Not because armies need SIM cards. Because modern defense now runs on sovereign networks, private 5 G bubbles, cyber resilience, drone sensing, tactical edge, and comms that survive under attack Why…...
Telcos: Picking up a fight with Space X solves nothing
1+ week, 1+ day ago (500+ words) Sebastian Barros Newsletter Telcos: Picking up a fight with Space X solves nothing Telcos' real problems are stagnant revenue growth, an unsustainable Cap Ex model, and the urgent need to transition their networks to be AI-ready, not what happens 500km above....