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Fox 26 Houston: Record $23 billion expected to be bet on Super Bowl

Chris Drake, SVP at iconectiv, joins Heather Sullivan at Fox 26 Houston to discuss Super Bowl scams. Chris discusses the various types of fraud leading up to the Super Bowl, the red flags to look out for and how to avoid them.  Watch the full segment here.
Feb 8, 2024
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CBS News Los Angeles, The Rundown: Avoiding Super Bowl Fraud and Scams

Chris Drake, SVP at iconectiv, joins Juan Fernandez for CBS News Los Angeles’, The Rundown to discuss Super Bowl scams. Chris discusses the various types of fraud leading up to the Super Bowl and how to avoid them.  Watch the full segment here.
Jan 23, 2024
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Telecom Reseller: What the FCC is doing to protect your phone number from scammers who want to hijack it

In part two, iconectiv’s Senior Vice President, Corporate and Business Development, Chris Drake, joins Doug Green at Telecom Reseller Podcast to continue discussing the critical role of your phone number as a personal identifier. Chris goes over the FCC's measures against phone number hijacking. Learn more here.
Jan 5, 2024
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TechRound: Meet Peter Ford, Executive Vice President, Information Solutions Business

Peter Ford, iconectiv’s Executive Vice President of Information Solutions Business, explored cross border communication in an interview with TechRound. He dives further into key differences between the public and private connectivity sectors, along with iconectiv’s plans for the future.Learn more here.
Dec 27, 2023
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Telecom Reseller: What the FCC is doing to protect your phone number from scammers

iconectiv’s Senior Vice President, Corporate and Business Development, Chris Drake, joins Doug Green on the Telecom Reseller Podcast to discuss the FCC's measures against phone number hijacking. Chris emphasizes the critical role your phone number plays in identifying you digitally.Learn more here.
Dec 20, 2023
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How to protect yourself from fraud this holiday season

Alberto Apablaza, Director of Account Manager at iconectiv, joined Azalea Iniguez at Telemundo Los Angeles to discuss holiday delivery scams. Alberto highlights the importance of recognizing these scams and offers advice on how to avoid them.Watch the full segment here.
Dec 4, 2023
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Telecom Reseller: Consent Farms are Tricking Consumers into Unknowingly Agreeing to Receive Robocalls

Telecom Reseller Podcast’s Doug Green welcomes iconectiv’s Senior Vice President, Chris Drake, to discuss the threat of consent farms. Chris emphasizes the importance of addressing the issue and how iconectiv is helping regulators enact policies so consumers receive trusted calls and texts. Learn more here.
Nov 1, 2023

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Ensuring Accurate Routing of Calls for Hard of Hearing, those Requiring Speech Communication Assistance

iconectiv Begins Serving as TRS Numbering Administrator for Internet-based Telecommunications Relay Services in the United States What’s the News: As the new provider of the Telecommunications Relay Services Number Directory for iTRS in the U.S., iconectiv is ensuring that people requiring hearing and speech communication assistance can continue to rely on landline and mobile phones to communicate. Why it Matters:  Hard of hearing and those requiring speech communication…
Dec 9, 2019
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Consumers pick up the phone when they have trusted information about the businesses calling them

With TruReach Intel, iconectiv answers the call for a way to compliment SHAKEN’s illegal robocall mitigation with proper identification of calls from legitimate businesses What’s the News: New solution helps service providers authenticate legitimate calls from businesses impacted by SHAKEN specification and the industry-wide crackdown on illegal robocalls. Why it Matters: Outbound calls from law-abiding enterprises and other organizations may be at risk of being treated as an unverified…
Dec 4, 2019
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Answering the Call: Industry to Share Expertise at SIPNOC 2019

BRIDGWATER, NJ – November 19, 2019 ­– With the industry firmly focused on radically reducing illegal robocalls, experts will gather at SIPNOC 2019 on December 3 to further address this critical issue. With 76% of all unidentified phone calls left unanswered, consumers and enterprises are looking to service providers to ensure that legitimate businesses are getting their calls answered by consumers. SIPNOC 2019 will be 100% focused on the new ATIS-SIP Forum SHAKEN framework which will help…
Nov 19, 2019
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Illegal robocalls, NFV implementation and telecom fraud take center stage for iconectiv at MWC Los Angeles

BRIDGEWATER, NJ – October 17, 2019 – 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. In particular, iconectiv will concentrate on solutions that can help speed the introduction of…
Oct 17, 2019
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The promise and peril of network virtualization

BRIDGEWATER, NJ – October 15, 2019 – 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. A new market brief from iconectiv®, NFV information as a service making virtualization practical, simple and telco-grade, explores the top four reasons why those…
Oct 16, 2019
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Experts Gather to Discuss Cybersecurity and Fraud during National Cyber Security Awareness Month

New York City – In 2018, $14.7 billion was stolen from 14.4 million U.S. consumers due to identity theft. As October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), 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. What: Mobile phone numbers now rival social security and driver license numbers as the personal identifier that…
Oct 11, 2019
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Putting Trust Back into Communications takes Center Stage at Communications Fraud Conference

TUSCON, ARIZONA –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)…
Oct 10, 2019