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Telecommunication Industry Working Group Aims to End Robocalls Through Cryptographic Credentials

Every day, Americans are inundated with millions of robocalls. But the Verifying Integrity in End-to-End Signaling Working Group seeks to put an end to them.
Jul 7, 2020
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Enabling the world of tomorrow, today

There is a need and desire to restore confidence in voice communications and there are many players helping make that happen – from service providers, to analytic engines, to regulators. Within that realm, iconectiv is squarely positioned as a neutral, trusted partner to help resolve this growing (and expensive) problem.
Jun 18, 2020
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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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Telecom and Media Leaders to Converge at Interactive Executive Gathering

iconectiv, to join industry leaders including Disney/ABC, Fox Networks, Microsoft, and Viacom at interactive network technology conference
Jun 6, 2017
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Spain to Ensure International Calls and Messages Reach Intended Customers through iconectiv’s MobileID Solution

iconectiv and the AOPM and AOP, the Spanish mobile and landline Operator Associations, today announced that the iconectiv MobileID offer, has been selected to exclusively provide port corrected numbering data. This service is critical to help foreign operators route calls and SMS sent to Spanish residents from businesses outside the country, mainly when the Spanish number is ported.
May 22, 2017
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España ayuda a asegurar la entrega de llamadas y mensajes SMS internacionales mediante la solución MobileID de iconectiv

iconectiv y la AOPM y la AOP, asociaciones formadas y gestionadas exclusivamente por operadores de telefonía fija (AOP) y móvil (AOPM), anunciaron hoy que la oferta MobileID de iconectiv ha sido seleccionada en exclusiva para proveer los datos de encaminamiento de numeración portada de España . Este servicio proporcionado por iconectiv resulta relevante para asegurar a operadores extranjeros el correcto encaminamiento del tráfico de llamadas y mensajes de texto con destino a la numeración perteneciente a las distintas redes públicas telefónicas existentes en España, particularmente cuando se trata de numeración que ha sido objeto de operaciones de portabilidad entre operadores.
May 22, 2017
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Industry Testing for New iconectiv NPAC Begins May 15

iconectiv, the next Local Number Portability Administrator (LNPA) for all seven U.S. regions, began industry testing today, May 15, 2017, a major milestone in the transition to the new Number Portability Administration Center (NPAC).
May 15, 2017
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Webinar May 18: Cultivating Customer Engagement, Increasing Brand Integrity

iconectiv, will provide valuable insights on boosting customer engagement between consumers and brands, amid stringent Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) messaging regulations, during an upcoming webinar on May 18, 2017. Presented along with the Professional Association for Customer Engagement (PACE), the webinar: The Power of Identity: Avoiding the Pitfalls and Costs of Consumer Disengagement, will focus on the role of text messaging as part of an omnichannel strategy to drive revenue and brand intimacy within their business operations.
May 11, 2017
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Efforts to Stop Caller ID ‘Spoofing’ and Robocalls Detailed in New Industry White Paper

Telemarketers and robocalls using spurious Caller ID to trick consumers into answering their phones – also known as ‘spoofing’– are the primary source of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) complaints and reports of telecom fraud, and the problem is increasing at an alarming rate. A new industry white paper titled, Caller ID: The Impact of Robocalling and Spoofing, has been released that provides a brief overview of the issue as well the techniques being developed to help alleviate the problem.
May 11, 2017
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Consumer Threats in Technology and Connected Device Risks to be discussed at Communications Summit

iconectiv will present a pair of security focused presentations at IEEE ComSoc International Communications Quality and Reliability Workshop (CQR) in Naples, Fl.
May 10, 2017