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Let’s meet at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2017 (Feb 27-Mar 2)!

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From Feb 27 to March 2 I’ll be attending MWC in Barcelona. You can meet me at  ALISYS ’ booth (Spanish Pavilion - Congress Square CS60 - Booth #36): In order to setup a meeting, you can send me an email to  jepuente@gmail.com See you in MWC! **** About : Jose E. Puente is a Telecommunications Engineer with an expertise in business development for MVNO's, international wholesale VoIP carriers and disruptive telecom projects. Having worked in the full technical deployment of one of the first new entrants ( VODAFONE ESPAÑA , formerly Comunitel Global) once telecom market was liberalized in Spain in 1998, as Key Account Manager at the telecom subsidiary of  IBERDROLA , and as Wholesale Business Director at  OCEAN'S NETWORK  (leading the strategy and transition from being a branded reseller of MOVISTAR to becoming a real MVNO over ORANGE network), Jose E. Puente is currently involved in International Business Development with  ALISYS ,  TAITIC ,  MOBILETALK-Q  and a fe

23 USA telecom carriers fined over $2M by the FCC since 2015

It's really interesting to check how our telecom business is "protected" in the US by the FCC ( Federal Communications Commission ). In the last two years, 23 telecom carriers were fined by the FCC over $2M... This is the full list: AT&T Services, Inc. : $25M fine for security breach involving customers’ CPNI ( https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-15-399A1.pdf ) Birch Communications, Inc. : $4.2M fine for ‘cramming’ and ‘slamming’ on long distance service ( https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-16-1458A1.pdf ) Central Telecom Long Distance, Inc. : $3.46M fine for ‘cramming’ and ‘slamming’ on long distance service ( https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-16-122A1.pdf ) CenturyLink, Inc. : $16M fine for outage in 911 service ( https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-15-406A1.pdf ) Consumer Telcom, Inc. : $3.06M fine for ‘cramming’ and ‘slamming’ on long distance service ( https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch

Emprendedores Telco versus Emprendedores IT

Tras casi 20 años colaborando en el lanzamiento de startups Telco, sigo sin encontrar la convergencia entre estos proyectos que tan bien conozco y las startups IT actuales. O, dicho de otro modo, sigo sin conseguir enlazar los emprendedores Telco con los emprendedores IT actuales. No veo cómo unir dos mundos que veo bastante alejados en cuanto a visión y enfoque de negocio, aunque formalmente somos parte de un único ecosistema IT. ¿Los emprendedores Telco somos muy diferentes de los emprendedores IT del mismo modo que  Telefónica, Vodafone, Orange, DTAG  son muy distintos de  Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft ? No lo creo. Creo que a todos los emprendedores del sector tecnológico nos gusta lo disruptivo y disfrutamos cuando nuestras startups llegan al área de marketing de los grandes actores del sector y se nos "objetiva" como un competidor más. Sin embargo, las  startups Telco  las solemos lanzar siguiendo un guión determinado: Un público objetivo que suele ser