I would like to confess today that I have been a little prejudiced about the small service provider segment. I thought the only thing they did was call termination (in case of VoIP). Having spoken to a few small service providers over the last couple of months, I think I have been wasting my time with the ‘Tier 1s’. The Tier 1s might have genuine concerns about scalability and robustness in new applications they test. However even an analyst needs some excitement once in a while.

Sometimes you want to taste and know about half baked stuff too. While the services offered and applications built by smaller providers/vendors may not offer 35 nines, many among us would still want to know the story. It is with this intention that we start coverage of small service providers and vendors from now on. In short that means greater coverage during 2008 for Voice 2.0 and small service provider segment.

If telecommunications is going to change for better, the change agents are likely to be smaller service providers and vendors going forward. Coverage of small service provider/vendor segment on iLocus will mostly come in form of company profiles. If you are a small telecom company and have a story to tell, just email us at info@ilocus.com and we will cover you. That simple!