<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">"The data is from 2 years ago"</span></font><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Sure, but even two years ago would it have been right?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Thus far, I've kind of viewed Bandwidth as an underdog when measured against the others.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">"</span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Sinch </span></font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">is buying Inteliquent"<br></span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br>I'm always skeptical when someone I've never heard of buys a major piece of telecom or infrastructure. I'm more skeptical when the purchaser's web site mostly talks about API and not infrastructure.</span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">"Data without clear methodology is simply obscuring numbers that cannot be </span></font><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">trusted."<br></span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br>Agreed. That's why I came here, looking for another view point.<br></span></font><br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br><br><br>Midwest Internet Exchange<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<br><br><span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;"><b>From: </b>"Peter Beckman" <beckman@angryox.com><br><b>To: </b>"Mike Hammett" <voiceops@ics-il.net><br><b>Cc: </b>"VoiceOps" <voiceops@voiceops.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, June 23, 2021 12:03:36 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [VoiceOps] Market Leaders?<br><br>The data is from 2 years ago... Inteliquent purchased Onvoy, and now Sinch<br>is buying Inteliquent.<br><br>They also do not define what they consider "VoIP Business landscape" --<br>minutes? DIDs? something else?<br><br>Data without clear methodology is simply obscuring numbers that cannot be<br>trusted.<br><br>On Tue, 22 Jun 2021, Mike Hammett wrote:<br><br>> Does anyone other than ShareTracker have data on market share? I saw this page when looking for something else.<br>><br>><br>> https://sharetracker.com/bandwidth-inteliquent-level3-and-peerless-tops-among-voip-carriers/<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> It didn't seem right that Bandwidth had more of the market than Inteliquent and Level 3 (and potentially Vonage and Twilio) combined. That lead me to doubt everything else in the report.<br>><br>><br>><br>> -----<br>> Mike Hammett<br>> Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>> http://www.ics-il.com<br>><br>><br>><br>> Midwest Internet Exchange<br>> http://www.midwest-ix.com<br>><br>><br>><br>><br><br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Peter Beckman Internet Guy<br>beckman@angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/<br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><br></div></div></body></html>