speakops telecom bootcamp

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Technical Notes

Telecom

01. Telecom Crashcourse 01: Numbering and Identity

The founder-grade mental model for what a phone number actually is, who controls it, and why telecom identity is wider than the digits a customer sees.

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02. Telecom Crashcourse 02: Portability and Routing Control

How existing business numbers actually move between providers, how the network discovers the current serving provider, and what 'taking over a number' really means.

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03. Telecom Crashcourse 03: Voice Signaling and Call Flow

The practical voice-signaling model founders need: SIP, RTP, session boundaries, and the real end-to-end path of a business phone call.

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04. Telecom Crashcourse 04: Programmable Voice and Routing Logic

Where telephony becomes software: rules engines, IVRs, forwarding, routing decisions, and the real boundaries of arbitrary call-control logic.

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05. Telecom Crashcourse 05: Industry Structure and Commercial Reality

The telecom actor map founders need: MNOs, MVNOs, CLECs, interconnected VoIP providers, resellers, CPaaS dependence, and where control and margin really live.

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06. Telecom Crashcourse 06: Regulation, Trust, and Compliance

The non-negotiable founder model for caller-ID trust, robocall rules, consent risk, emergency calling, and why compliance in telecom is part of product architecture.

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07. Telecom Crashcourse 07: Product Architecture for SpeakOps

How to turn telecom reality into software architecture: number custody, provider abstraction, routing state, call events, and a startup-grade control plane.

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08. Telecom Crashcourse 08: Messaging Ecosystem

Why SMS looks adjacent to voice but behaves differently in practice: 10DLC, toll-free messaging, short codes, filtering, throughput, and trust.

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09. Telecom Crashcourse 09: Cellular Core Architecture

The practical mobile-network model for software founders: SIMs, IMSI, eSIM, radio access, core control, IMS, and how cellular differs from cloud telephony.

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10. Telecom Crashcourse 10: Fraud, Abuse, and Adversarial Reality

The adversarial side of telecom that founders must plan for early: spoofing, port-out fraud, SIM swaps, spam labels, toll fraud, and reputation-driven failure modes.

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