Totogi was launched publicly at Mobile World Congress 2021 after TelcoDR founder Danielle Rios, then known as Danielle Royston, invested US$100 million in the company.[6] Early coverage tied the launch to Rios's wider campaign for public cloud adoption in telecom.[6][7] In the run-up to the event, after Ericsson withdrew from MWC Barcelona because of pandemic concerns, Rios took over Ericsson's vacated exhibition space and turned it into Cloud City, a public-cloud showcase for the telecom industry.[8][9] Mobile World Live and Computer Weekly described Totogi's MWC debut as part of that wider push, while Computer Weekly wrote that the company was trying to do for telco software what Salesforce had done for CRM.[1][7]
In 2022, Totogi moved from launch to commercial rollout. TelecomTV wrote that its charging software had become available in all 26 AWS regions and that the company already had paying customers.[2] Around the same time, Light Reading described Totogi as an early step in Rios's broader effort to expand from charging software into a wider public-cloud telecom software stack.[10]
Subsequent coverage focused on deployments: In 2024, Zain Sudan moved to Totogi's charging-as-a-service platform after the ongoing armed conflict in Sudan resulted in a near-total blackout of internet and telecommunications services.[11] According to Access Now, Sudan's nationwide internet shutdown began on February 2, 2024, after reports that the Rapid Support Forces had seized control of ISP data centers in Khartoum.[12] Light Reading said Totogi's Zain deal likely came at Ericsson's expense, though it also noted that the exact scope of the replacement was unclear; the publication said the migration took 18 days and covered about 20 million subscribers.[11] In 2025, Light Reading reported that New Zealand operator 2degrees was using Totogi's platform for its wholesale MVNO business.[3]
By 2025, some trade and analyst coverage was describing Totogi in terms broader than charging. Light Reading said BSS Magic could run on top of other BSS platforms to generate insights and AI workloads, while a separate Light Reading report from MWC 2025 said the company had introduced an AI system designed to generate insights from different telecom systems.[3][13] In March 2026, Telecoms.com described Totogi Ontology as an executable knowledge layer that sits above BSS, OSS, and network systems.[4] In separate MWC26 analysis, Appledore Research argued that the real momentum in AI-era telecom software was in data fabrics, ontologies, semantic models, and other foundational layers.[5]
