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Press Releases

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Sharon Oddy
Head of Marketing and Corporate Communications
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A Successful Pilot: iconectiv, CTIA, Metaswitch and Verizon Address the Benefits of a Centralized Industry Registry for Verifying Voice Calls

Lack of caller verification is one of the largest problems that is causing individuals to not answer their phone. If they do not see who is calling them then they are less likely to pick up at all. With calls answered rates reaching the lowest it has ever been in a long time, it is to the upmost importance that proper authentication gets back into phone calls. Executives from CTIA, iconectiv, Metaswitch and Verizon covered a recent trial run of Registered Caller™ at the 2021 STIR/SHAKEN Summit and conversed about what it will offer to fix the declining answered rates.
Sep 8, 2021
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AT&T, CTIA and iconectiv Discuss Efforts to Mitigate robocalls in the U.S.

With the rise of unwanted robocalls, ignored or blocked legitimate calls have a negative impact on U.S. companies and consumers. To solve this challenge, iconectiv in partnership with CTIA created Registered Caller™—the industry-backed centralized registry for verifying voice calls. Registered Caller ensures that business entities and the telephone numbers they use get vetted, registered and verified, helping prevent legitimate calls from getting blocked or flagged as spam. In this Network Media Group panel, experts from AT&T, CTIA and iconectiv explore how this helps maintain the integrity of one of our most vital methods of communication—voice calls—by providing voice service providers with a single source of truth for verified caller information.
Aug 25, 2021
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iconectiv Recognized for Exceptional Robocall Mitigation Technology that Restores Trust Across Voice Communications

iconectiv’s TruReach Certify have been selected as a recipient of the 2021 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award by TMC. One of TMC’s most coveted awards, it honors the forward thinking that TruReach Certify brings to the telecommunications industry as the first deployment of a STIR/SHAKEN-based robocall mitigation solution. Through the implementation of TruReach Certify, consumers have confidence that the information displayed on their devices is legitimate, empowering them to make educated decisions when answering calls.
Aug 12, 2021
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As Distributed Workstyles Grow, iconectiv TruNumber Routing Helps Ensure Calls and Text Messages are Delivered Accurately and Cost-Effectively in 84 Countries

The pandemic’s impact on business continuity and workstyles has increased enterprises’ reliance on telecommuting and other highly distributed workforces. This trend also increases the need to ensure that calls and text messages are always routed correctly to wherever employees are based. iconectiv’s TruNumber Routing helps service providers ensure that their enterprise customers’ calls and messages are routed correctly and via the least-cost routes. TruNumber Routing provides optimal routing and rating data for 84 countries, including Canada, Ghana, India, Japan, Spain, South Korea and the United States.
Aug 5, 2021
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Legitimate Businesses, Telephone Companies Now Have More Options to Present Verified Caller ID to Consumers

A recent announcement of approval for the use of Delegate Certificates from Secure Telephone Identity Governance Authority (STI-GA) revealed that there may be a clearer and more concise path to ending the headache that is robocalls. Delegate Certificates opens the door for newer technologies that can combat robocalls such as Registered Caller™. Businesses that rely on phone calls to consumers, call-answer rates, and customer satisfaction have taken a hit with the ever growing robocall rates. CTIA in partnership iconectiv will continue to work on Registered Caller™ to take down the hinderance of robocalls and get business and phone calls back on track.
Jul 26, 2021
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iconectiv to Participate at Virtual SIP Forum 2021 STIR/SHAKEN Summit

Presented by the SIP Forum, the 2021 STIR/SHAKEN Virtual Summit is a reprise of the special mid-year webinar series focused on the STIR/SHAKEN Call Authentication Framework. This conference is a unique event for service providers and carriers to gather to discuss the challenges of deploying and implementing SIP-based communications technology, and to learn the best-practices and strategies that enable the successful and profitable operation of SIP-based services and applications. During these sessions, iconectiv experts will discuss updates on Registered Caller, recent policy updates and their impact, as well as provide strategies and lessons learned regarding cross-border calls and more.
Jul 16, 2021
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T-Mobile and Partners Complete First-Ever Wireless Call with Rich Call Data

Recent reports indicate U.S. consumers are on pace to receive more than 52 billion robocalls this year. T-Mobile, along with a premier group of technology companies, messaging industry stakeholders and voice service providers including First Orion, CTIA, Everbridge, iconectiv, NetNumber, Numeracle, and Twilio, has now completed what is believed to be the first ever wireless call to combine authenticated Caller ID and Rich Call Data (RCD), powered by the STIR/SHAKEN framework and protocols. With this important step forward for the industry, the job of scammers and spammers will soon be even harder.
Jul 16, 2021

In the news

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An Interview with Mr. Jonathan Shulman, Vice President, Business Development iconectiv

Consumers have become increasingly wary of robocalls and have stopped answering their phones for unknown numbers. Communication channels are constantly being infiltrated by scammers and people are losing trust in these channels. On this episode of Enterprise Talk podcast, iconectiv’s Jonathan Shulman discusses the importance of trust in communications and networks across the global service provider and telecommunications ecosystem and how RCS can improve customer engagement for contact centers.
Feb 17, 2021
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How HR Professionals Can Connect With Candidates and Employees Through Short Code Messaging

With 96% of Americans owning mobile phones, HR recruiters are now leaning toward tools such as online chatbots and short code messaging. However, with so many cases of fraudsters and a surge in robocalling, people aren’t answer calls from numbers they don’t know. Communications channels like text messaging are considered safer, with 93% of consumers viewing text messaging as a trusted communication environment. In this article, iconectiv’s Cliff Holsenbeck explores how short codes offer the perfect opportunity for starting a trusted conversation between recruiters and candidates.
Feb 16, 2021
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CTIA Wireless Foundation Launches Catalyst 2021, Competitive Grants Program for Health and Well-Being

iconectiv is a proud sponsor of CTIA Wireless Foundation’s Catalyst 2021, a competitive grants program accelerating social entrepreneurs using wireless to address pressing health and well-being issues. As the foundation’s signature initiative, Catalyst identifies and funds early stage organizations that take advantage of the speed, efficiency and versatility of wireless to improve the health and well-being of Americans.
Feb 9, 2021
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5 Ecommerce Trends to Watch for in 2021

In this recent Shogun article, iconectiv’s Cliff Holsenbeck discusses how SMS marketing can be valuable to ecommerce businesses. Text messaging via shortcodes can offer the perfect opportunity for ecommerce businesses to engage in two-way text conversations with their consumers. With over 275 million smartphone users in the U.S. alone, there is a wide pool of potential customers. Data also shows that at the beginning of 2020, SMS was already averaging 2,755% ROI for ecommerce marketers — not too far behind email’s ROI of 3,800%.
Jan 14, 2021
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How CSPs can restore consumer trust in communications in 2021 – and beyond

In this Vanilla Plus article, iconectiv’s chief product officer Michael O’Brien discusses how understanding the real perception of consumer trust in communications these days is hard to know exactly because so many factors play into it. Over 76% of consumers no longer answer calls from unfamiliar and unidentified numbers, letting them drop into voice mail instead. Some contact center operators say that outbound call answer rates are down 30%.
Jan 7, 2021
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Trusted Communications: Predictions for 2021 — and Beyond

In 2020, COVID-19 accelerated digital transformations that were expected to take several years. This article explores three ways that consumer trust in communications will evolve in 2021: mobile numbers will become your ID, the notion of privacy will get even more fluid and businesses can expect to face an identity crisis.
Dec 22, 2020
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Put It in Writing: How Recruiters Can Create a Connection with Candidates through Short Code Messaging

With 96 percent of Americans owning a mobile phone, human resources professionals are starting to see the benefits of tools like mobile messaging via short codes, chatbots and other forms of automation when it comes to adding an extra layer of personal connection to their recruiting efforts. In this article, iconectiv’s Cliff Holsenbeck explores short code messaging, the less explored channel of communication between recruiters and candidates that can be used to smoothly conduct recruitment conversations.
Dec 22, 2020

Events

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MEF Webinar- STIR SHAKEN in North America: Lessons learnt, RoboCalls stopped?

Globally telecom users have been suffering RoboCalls, or nuisance calls. The USA and Canada have introduced call tracing capability that should help stop unwanted and fraudulent calls to reach the final consumers – what was then called STIR SHAKEN. Different levels of protection have been rolled out, but the problem seems to persist. MEF is holding a webinar to examine the lessons that have been learned from STIR SHAKEN and what the future holds for RoboCalls.
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Common Interest Group on Routing and Rating Working Group (CIGRR)

iconectiv will host the third quarter Common Interest Group on Routing and Rating (CIGRR) work group session in-person on July 12th – 14th, 2022. This three-day meeting provides an interactive forum for CIGRR to recommend advanced direction to the TruOps Telecom Routing Administration (TRA). TRA is the primary source of numbering, routing, and rating data in support of an intercompany information exchange process for the telecommunications industry. TRA provides data and services for the…
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Messaging & SMS World

Messaging and SMS World 2022 will bring together the biggest players in the global messaging and SMS community to explore the latest developments in areas including RCS, OTT Messaging, Omnichannel, CPaaS, A2P/P2A messaging and fraud/security solutions.
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ITEXPO 22

Studies show that in the U.S., 76 percent of calls from an unidentified or unfamiliar number are left unanswered. While the deployment of the STIR/SHAKEN framework is helping mitigate spoofing and robocalling, some legitimate business calls may consequently be mislabeled as spam, even if they are not. To combat this, businesses and their numbers must be vetted, registered and verified by service providers to help outbound calls be delivered to consumers and displayed appropriately.
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Common Language IAB &TAG Meeting

The Common Language International Advisory Board (IAB) and Technical Advisory Group’s (TAG) will be held in San Antonio TX, on June 21st, 22nd and 23rd. The advisory board discusses topics impacting the telecommunications industry, while the TAG session addresses day–to-day operational concerns in regard to specific code sets identified to satisfy subscriber business requirements.
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Back to the Future

The Global Mobile Money Market is booming. Originally valued at USD $3.4 billion in 2019, it is expected to grow to USD $25.76 billion by 2027, as more consumers than ever before are turning to their mobile devices to conduct banking transactions via SMS and RCS. And while the opportunity for the burgeoning mobile money market is great, it does not come without challenges – specifically how to safeguard the mobile wallet against bad actors.   iconectiv will join operators, risk…
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Fixed Asset Management for the Telecom Industry

You are cordially invited to an exclusive summit of telecom industry leaders for an interactive discussion on the business impacts that new financial regulations and asset management challenges have on telecommunication companies in the region.