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Practical advice for combating robocalling

Robocall scams have exploded worldwide during the past several years. Communications service providers (CSPs) and their partners are implementing several technical approaches to identify and block robocalls, such as identifying known robocalling origination points, recognizing compromised number ranges or detecting floods of calls to certain number ranges from a small number of origination points. In this article, analyst Ed Finegold with TM Forum takes a closer look at expert advice for combating the growing robocall problem, including iconectiv’s CTO Chris Drake.
May 19, 2020
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Is digital ID brokerage a business opportunity for CSPs?

In many forms of digital-era fraud, thieves steal digital identities to pose as legitimate customers and commit crimes like bank account takeover and mobile subscription fraud. Zenkey, a joint communications service provider (CSP) effort providing an alternative to digital identity brokerages, effectively tokenizes the subscriber information operators already hold to protect customers from digital identity theft. In this article from TMForum, Ed Finegold takes a closer look at the potential opportunity for CSPs as digital identity brokers, including an expert perspective from iconectiv’s CTO Chris Drake.
May 19, 2020
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Executive Webinar: Trusted Communications

The future of messaging frameworks and protocols, beginning with SMS, MMS, and now RCS, lies in the hands of industry collaboration within the solution provider ecosystem. Our CTO Chris Drake joins Keith Lampron, Associate Director of Core Messaging Product Management at Verizon Wireless and Chris Nicoll, Principal Analyst at ACG Research on this executive webinar to share what to expect from RCS for enterprises, consumers and operators.
May 12, 2020
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Black Swan Solution Guide: SHAKEN / STIR Calling Number Verification & Fraud Alerting

With increases in illegal robocalls, mobile operators have been challenged with maintaining consumer trust as they stop answering calls from unknown numbers. SHAKEN/STIR is the telecom industry’s first step toward reviving trust in telephony and sets the vital framework for how telecoms can deliver identity verification information for enterprises from originating to terminating provider. This briefing on SHAKEN/STIR is available featuring the analysis of two technology leaders at iconectiv, Chris Drake and Gary Richenaker.
May 12, 2020
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State AGs’ Plea to Help Fight Robocalls During Pandemic

Fraudsters and scammers have been preying on the coronavirus pandemic since March, often asking for money, personal information and claiming to provide health information related to the pandemic. iconectiv, the policy administrator for the FCC-backed initiative SHAKEN aimed at mitigating illegal robocalls, has warned that fraudulent calls may increase in the coming weeks as more government stimulus checks hit the bank accounts of tens of millions of Americans.
May 8, 2020
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What can Telcos do to restore consumer trust in phone calls and texts?

In this video interview, Chief Technology Officer, Chris Drake and Jeremy Cowan of VanillaPlus tackle the tricky subject of trust. With people fatigued by spam calls and text messages and businesses trying unsuccessfully to legitimately communicate with the consumer, how can Telcos restore confidence in communications?
Apr 30, 2020
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The Genius is Within: Real Innovation Begins by Listening to the Right Voices

Throughout the nearly four decades Richard Jacowleff has spent in the telecom industry, he’s witnessed and been a part of extraordinary changes, from the breakup of AT&T in 1983 to the ubiquitous use of smartphones. Rising through the ranks from technician to director, executive director, vice president and now president and CEO of iconectiv, he’s always considered himself a builder rather than a manager. Whether putting together brilliant teams or technology solutions, it is a matter of wanting to improve things by doing better and inspiring others to do the same.
Apr 22, 2020

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Illegal robocalls, NFV implementation and telecom fraud take center stage for iconectiv at MWC Los Angeles

While future 5G service plans and deployment updates can be expected to capture headlines at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Los Angeles (October 22-24), iconectiv, a trusted, neutral provider of trusted communications platforms and solutions, – will be drawing attention back to some of the key challenges facing service providers and their customers today.
Oct 17, 2019
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The promise and peril of network virtualization

Service providers want the technological flexibility, business agility and savings that Network Function Virtualization (NFV) promises, but they’re frustrated by its implementation complexity and cost and the fact that it requires additional work on top of all their other projects and initiatives.
Oct 16, 2019
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Experts Gather to Discuss Cybersecurity and Fraud during National Cyber Security Awareness Month

Top minds in the field will gather on October 16 and 17 at an event in New York City to discuss how to ensure that all Americans and businesses have the resources they need to be safer and more secure.
Oct 11, 2019
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Putting Trust Back into Communications takes Center Stage at Communications Fraud Conference

Robocalls make up nearly half of all phone calls so frustrated consumers simply don’t answer incoming calls and businesses can’t get through to customers when they need to reach them. At the same time, phone numbers have become the defacto personal identifier for consumers and—if verified— can provide valuable information for companies looking to mitigate risk. As communications security professionals gather at this year’s Communications Fraud Control Association’s (CFCA) annual convention, iconectiv will highlight the role of trusted communications and how the industry is working together to maintain the integrity of the phone number to protect businesses and businesses.
Oct 10, 2019
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CCA Convention discusses how illegal robocalls compromise communications; iconectiv stresses need to protect the legitimate as well as block the fake

Glenn Reynolds, Head of Government and Industry Affairs at iconectiv, will be among several industry stakeholders to highlight policy-related issues, including the progress being made in scam and spam robocall mitigation, one of the top issues impacting carriers today and a key focus of the 116th Congress during its first nine months.
Sep 17, 2019
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iconectiv to Serve as US Policy Administrator to Mitigate Illegal Robocalls

iconectiv, the authoritative partner of the communications industry, has signed the agreement to serve as U.S. Secure Telephone Identity Policy Administrator (STI-PA) for the FCC-endorsed ATIS-SIP Forum SHAKEN (Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs) — the industry-wide solution to mitigate illegal robocalls and help consumers once again trust their calling number displayed on their caller ID.
Aug 28, 2019
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iconectiv Makes Key Contribution to ONAP Open Source to Help Accelerate Mobile Network Virtualization

Published ahead of the industry’s Open Networking Summit next month in Antwerp, Belgium, the latest release of international specifications to help build future software-led mobile networks includes a key contribution from iconectiv®, a company which provides information services that help service providers operate and manage their communications networks globally. The specifications have been published by the LF Networking’s Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) to help combine and drive industry progress toward delivering new services quickly and cost-efficiently using network functions virtualization (NFV) over software-defined mobile networks within an open source framework.
Aug 27, 2019
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