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Alliances like CAMARA usually fail for a few reasons:
1. Telcos want all new features to be purely additive. They're not willing to expose API calls that are even slightly uncomfortable or might cannibalize existing business, for the same reasons as above. As a result you get features no one really asked for.
2. Alliances often fail due to competitive dynamics. The moment a telco group that competes with another telco group or a geopolitically inconvenient telco joins the alliance, work often stops.
3. Inability to find long-term alignment on vision and continuity.
Producing an API would also not solve for all the other operational & regulatory reasons telcos are tough to work with.
The same way the music, movie, and banking industries haven't produces their own digital layer, true innovation in the space will only come from OTT players that create globally scalable infrastructure, exposing network features to engineers, enabling them to spin up in a matter of hours.
That work indeed takes years and millions of USD. At Gigs.com, we're doing just that. Building Stripe for telecom. We believe that by giving the best technology companies in the world access to connectivity, we will finally start seeing a lot of innovation in the space, after 3 decades of stagnation.
If you think you're the right fit for the role, live in Europe and have a GH account instead, feel free to shoot me an email [email protected]
Gigs is building Stripe for SIM cards. Providing phone and data plans though an API, globally. A+ team. inc. ex SoundCloud, Apple.
Our Stack: RoR, JS, Next, React. Open to: Golang, Elixir, RoR
Feel free to reach out to [email protected]