
Telco in 20
Over the next 20 years, the telco industry will radically change as we move the entire IT estate to the public cloud to use AI. Are you ready? Telco in 20 helps telecom execs drive transformative change through the savvy use of public cloud and AI. Host Danielle Rios and high profile guests from across telecom share their vision for the industry’s future, the impact of artificial intelligence, and what telcos need to do to thrive.
Latest episodes

Oct 19, 2021 • 27min
Ep 28 - Talking public cloud with GSMA (Mats Granryd)
Telco in 20 sits down with Mats Granryd, Director General for GSMA, to talk about the future of the public cloud and telco.

Oct 4, 2021 • 1h 22min
Ep 27 - Talking public cloud with Telecoms.com (Scott Bicheno/Iain Morris )
Telco in 20 sits down with Scott Bicheno and Iain Morris of the Telecoms.com podcast to have an awesome conversation about the public cloud and telco.

Sep 28, 2021 • 17min
Ep 26 - Avoid vendor lock-in with TM Forum Open APIs (TMF DTW)
TM Forum’s Open APIs are giving telcos a way to build IT solutions that are easier and cheaper to deploy, integrate, and upgrade. It’s time to change your thinking about the best way to build applications.

Sep 21, 2021 • 21min
Ep 25 - Get ready to use the public cloud… in Afghanistan (Imtiaz Esmail)
Former Roshan CFO Imtiaz Esmail and his team refused to be sidelined by two devastating attacks on the Afghan telecom. Instead, they guided the company through a successful digital transformation.

Aug 24, 2021 • 8min
Ep 24 - What’s up with Totogi?
Here's the latest on Totogi, the telco software darling built specifically for the public cloud – 80% lower TCO, anyone?

Aug 10, 2021 • 24min
Ep 23 - DynamoDB: A tier 0 database (Rick Houlihan)
AWS' Rick Houlihan tells us why flexible and scalable NoSQL databases are a great fit for telco.

Jul 27, 2021 • 23min
Ep 22 - Meet mediation vendor Digital Route (Jonas Wallenius)
Jonas Wallenius, Strategic Product Manager at Digital Route, has a clear view of the public cloud's potential for telco, and ideas about how the industry can get there.

Jul 13, 2021 • 18min
Ep 21 - How we rocked MWC21 (David Haselwood)
CLOUD CITY shifted the spotlight to the public cloud for telco for the first time in MWC history.

Jun 30, 2021 • 17min
Ep 20 - The paradox of the public cloud (MWC)
There are massive upsides to the public cloud for telcos, but that’s not the whole story. TelcoDR CEO Danielle Royston tells it all in her MWC21 keynote.

Jun 1, 2021 • 16min
Ep 19 - Double your ARPU with customer ❤️❤️❤️ (MWL)
Switching from being network-centric to customer-centric is not only necessary, but also the best thing you’ll ever do for your bottom line.