Field notes on AI-era growth, deliverability, voice, and messaging for developers and teams building on Orbit by Devotel.
This week in Orbit by Devotel: the time-bound announcement series runs again — OpenAI's 2026 deprecation cycle decoded, the VoLTE/VoNR and IMS-retirement wave explained, eIDAS 2.0 mapped to SMS verification, and the AI-voice compliance audit consolidated to one deep link.
A2P messaging week in brief by Devotel Orbit: the OTT twist loop reshaping SMS-only programs, the WhatsApp quality-rating wave one month in, carrier interconnect and metering shifts since Q3, what Orbit shipped in September, and a QA checklist to close the week.
This week in Orbit by Devotel: the blog and changelog now serve coded RSS feeds, Meta's per-user WhatsApp marketing frequency cap decoded, one-click vertical compliance bundles announced, new head-to-head compares against Bird (MessageBird) and Klaviyo, and setup tips in the ToS channel picker.
This week in Orbit by Devotel: a plain-English explainer for the EU/UK PSTN switch-off, agent squads for multi-agent orchestration, a Click-to-WhatsApp ads entry point, head-to-head compares against Amazon SNS, Zapier, and n8n, and the September release-notes recap.
This week in Orbit by Devotel: email domains show the provider's live verification status with one-click Cloudflare DNS setup, video room templates spin up consistent rooms, SMPP bind submits stop flooding the Inbox by default, the STT Playground links failures to the credential settings, and a full guide to the Opt-outs console.
This week in Orbit by Devotel: a dashboard console for the contact PII vault, a numbers lookup fraud-score card, the knowledge-gap miner now suggests the fix for each miss, live-call card capture over a masked keypad, and per-message channel fallback on smart-send from the API.
How Devotel Orbit's announcement editorial works. Weekly `This week in Orbit` entries, monthly release notes, and a quarterly review, grouped into six topical lanes — AI agents, compliance reminders, integration updates, pricing and fee changes, channel expansion, and industry shifts — with cross-links back to onboarding and the canonical changelog.
Devotel Orbit now runs a weekly roundup series — 'This week in Orbit — <date>' — a dated, backwards-looking index of what shipped each week, with per-post freshness metadata so answer engines see current entries.
This week in Orbit by Devotel: usage alert rules moved into the dashboard with a one-click spend-throttle preset, a new insight surface for usage and delivery anomalies, and voice agents gained backchannel cues plus a sensitive-words redaction list.
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