most of our team are here in hawaiʻi, but we have amazing folks in canada, méxico, and brasil that are integral to mobi. building better wireless (maybe surprisingly?) isn’t rocket science. nor are we experts in international diplomacy the complexities of global trade, by any stretch of the imagination… but it is hard to not worry that imposing new tariffs on our two closest allies trading partners will inevitably, and quickly, lead to significant inflation. and have a profoundly negative impact on the north american economy as a whole that will touch all of our lives in ways we can’t even begin to fully calculate (although economists undoubtedly will try). together, the u.s., canada, and méxico are ahead of the e.u. by just a $4 trillion hair, ($32t vs $28t) in the purchasing power parity of our combined gross domestic product. the usmca, and nafta before it, certainly are not perfect. but bettering the partnership we have spent generations building makes so much more sense than tearing it all down, surely? we hope our leaders are able to figure out a way forward from this that strengthens, rather than weakens, each of our three countries and what we have built together: peace, prosperity, and the largest trading bloc economic partnership in the world.

eSIM is literally transformative. 🤓

Today, we honor President Carter’s lifetime of service and his commitment to leaving the world better than he found it. May he rest in peace.

Every time Jimmy Carter flew Delta, he shook hands with each person on the plane. Because that's who he was. Someone who treated people as people.

There is an adage: Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. I know many people feel like we are entering a dark time. For the benefit of us all, I hope that is not the case. But, America, if it is: Let us fill the sky with the light of a billion brilliant stars.

My father passed away when I was very young. But seeing how much genuine love Gus Walz has for his parents and his sister, and the pride he felt being able to be there for his dad as he accepted the Democratic nomination for Vice President of the United States? Let’s just say, he wasn’t the only one with tears in his eyes. And no matter your political stripes, you truly *are* weird if you can’t see and appreciate the joy and sincerity in that moment. @Tim_Walz and his family are clearly just good, honest, down to earth folks — whether you agree or disagree with every one of his policy positions. How could you not be grateful that they are willing to make the real, and sometimes painful sacrifices necessary to seek to serve our country in public office (as evidenced, no less, by some of the truly abhorrent nonsense folks have already spewed towards Gus — who, despite still being a kid, clearly has far more compassion and maturity than far too many of our “leaders” today). And, yes, for the Governor and his family, this is *further* sacrifice, as if the first 24 years serving our country in uniform, then as an educator, and then as a Congressman and Governor weren’t enough. I know what it was like to be proud of my mom and everything she overcame and fought for, and I still feel that now years after she’s been gone. I would trust Gus, Hope, Gwen, and Tim in a heartbeat over anyone that either can’t understand or that chooses to mock love and pride.

The people of Maui will always remain in my heart and prayers. Together, we've made real progress. The voices of those who have called the island home for generations will continue to guide the work ahead as we remain focused on supporting their ongoing recovery.

We get a surprising amount of folks (for our size, imo) reaching out about private wireless. I doubt that we are ever the first carrier folks have called, or even talked with, and some have even gone shockingly far down the rabbit hole elsewhere before, inevitably, running into roadblocks. So much of the cellular stack just wasn’t designed for anything other than massive scale, and the commercials are designed around that from start to finish. When we first set out to rebuild our core from the ground up, there weren’t really any options that made sense, even at the scale of a regional operator. (Pretty much all the regional MNOs that exist today have been around for a long time, and the trajectory of those numbers in the U.S. has been trending progressively downward since the wireless Big Bang, despite the number of customers and connected devices going in the upward direction just as linearly for the first few decades.) We eventually found WG2, now part of @Cisco, and I’m grateful (and we’re lucky) we did. They’re a scrappy group of folks that are now building just as amazing innovations from inside a company that understands both startups and scale — just now with a lot more resources to do that building. 🤓 But before WG2, we began paying attention to some of the open source cores out there like Open5GS, Magma, Free5GC, and OMEC. We eventually became a sponsor of Open5GS (and we’ve continued supporting their project since — I believe we became their largest continuing sponsor last year). Open5GS and each of the other projects have their own particular focus, and they’re all doing really fascinating things, but I think private 5G and IoT, in particular, are areas where there are a lot of possibilities thanks to these projects. We’re working to use Open5GS, for example, to test complex roaming, coverage, and network configuration edge cases that aren’t practical or possible to quickly test in production. But there are production networks running on open source cores already, today (especially in the WISP world). Dish has driven a lot of innovation and fueled a lot of the depth that we now see with OpenRAN. Companies like RiPSIM, 10T Tech, NetLync, 1Global, and others are removing a lot of the barriers that used to exist for standing up a wireless carrier. And although “nobody gets fired for choosing IBM/Xerox” has just-as-strong, if not stronger, parallels in wireless — and that same mindset certainly exists for a lot of folks interested in private wireless, I do think there’s a spark there. That spark is enough for me to hold out hope that there could be a renaissance for the regional carrier ecosystem. The overlap there is huge, and all it would take is a little momentum…

Seeing people’s reactions to trying Apple Vision Pro for the first time today was wonderful. Some people had tears in their eyes! Our mission is to enrich people’s lives, and I could feel that happening in real time. What a day!

“There is so much technology in this thing that feels like magic when it works and frustrates you completely when it doesn't.” —@reckless I think that pushing the envelope in that way has been a part of their DNA from their beginning: “Real artists ship.” I remember reading, and sometimes feeling, the same with the original Watch, iPad, iPhone, iPod. Hell, with macOS (especially early OS X and Classic before it was called that). But you knew every one of them was going to be successful (and they obviously have been, wildly so). Apple has long shipped products that “feel like magic” and that need to and do get better over time — not least epitomized by macOS eventually shifting to free software updates (and iOS barely even had the construct of paid software upgrades)…

Are you listening to the @TelcoIn20 podcast? YOU SHOULD! Catch up on the latest episodes, with guests like: ⭐️ @McKinsey Partner Ferry Grijpink @ferrycgrijpink ⭐️ @BTGroup Chief Architect for Digital Josie Smith ⭐️ @Justen Burdette, CEO of Hawaiian MVNO Mobi