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Head of Marketing and Corporate Communications
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Zain Group Drives Operational Efficiencies, Financial Compliance with Comprehensive Fixed Asset Management Solution

Zain Group, a leading mobile telecommunications provider serving more than 47.8 million customers in the Middle East and North Africa, today announced it will incorporate the iconectiv Common Language® solution to enhance capital and operational efficiencies within the company. The solution from iconectiv, an authoritative partner of the global communications industry, will help Zain gain new business insights through the comprehensive and ongoing identification and management of hundreds of thousands of network assets.
Feb 19, 2019
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Industry Leaders Discuss New Strategies to Protect Consumers against Telephone Fraud

Chris Drake, CTO, iconectiv will provide details on a new twist on an old fraud technique that is quickly escalating losses for service providers, call centers and enterprises during a specialist summit in San Francisco on February 21.
Feb 12, 2019
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Intelligently managing fraud and asset management focus at MWC19 Barcelona

Service providers will lose €1.9B to telecom fraud on the first day of MWC19 Barcelona. iconectiv, an authoritative partner of the global communications industry connecting more than two billion people every day, will be discussing critical strategies to mitigate fraud during the show.
Feb 4, 2019
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Are home location register (HLR) lookups putting your business at risk?

Market brief outlines how service providers can efficiently route calls and messages securely
Jan 23, 2019
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Best practice fraud protection strategies in the spotlight as service providers face increasing losses

Industry leading iconectiv® TruNumber Protect takes center stage at inaugural Middle East conference
Jan 17, 2019
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iconectiv’s Kathy Timko Appointed to Rutgers University’s Customer Experience Certificate Program Advisory Board

Kathy Timko will help mentor tomorrow’s customer experience professionals as a new advisor for the Rutgers University’s Customer Experience Certificate Program
Dec 11, 2018
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Vietnam Brings Choice, Convenience of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) to Residents

FPT Information System Corporation worked closely with iconectiv to deliver a mobile number portability solution that has been deployed across the entire country.
Dec 10, 2018

In the news

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The PKI Guy examines how to end robocalls with Chris Drake of iconectiv

Currently over 75% of calls are left unanswered when it comes from an unidentified or unfamiliar number. This is due to the spike in illegal robocalls. In October 2019, Americans were inundated with more than 2,000 robocalls every second, which is enough to put the annual total over 49 billion. Given this, the situation has progressively gotten worse and people are not trusting that what they see on the caller ID is correct. The SHAKEN/STIR framework aims to verify calling number information between networks.
Mar 31, 2020
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Robocalling faces a new Robocop with US TRACED Act

Robocalling has been an intrusive annoyance to millions of people on a day-to-day basis to the extent that they no longer pick up their phones to calls from outside their contact lists. Fortunately in the US, which saw more than 48 billion robocalls in 2018, regulation has been enacted to stamp out the practice. New legislation, called The Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act (TRACED) could see robocallers fined up to US$10,000 per call by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Mar 30, 2020
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Companies face fresh security risks from people working from home

Millions of people are working from home around the world as the coronavirus pandemic spreads and authorities plead for people to stay at home to slow the rate of contagion. Though people staying and working from home helps stop the spread of the virus, it increases the likelihood of companies getting hacked through weaknesses in employees’ home networks and misuse of VPN.
Mar 23, 2020
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Black Swan Solution Guide: Getting Porting History and Carrier Data to Verify Identity and Mitigate Account Takeovers

Not all risk intelligence sources are of equal value.  Some are so important that ignoring them might prove disastrous. One intelligence source of increasing importance is getting real-time notice of changes to telephone number ports and the carrier-of-record.  There are good reasons why this intelligence is so vital. Indeed, checking on the security and stability of the smartphone account is now considered critical by enterprises and identity aggregators in banking, e-commerce,…
Mar 6, 2020
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iconectiv Enables Consumers to Trust Calls, Text Messages and RCS Interactions

iconectiv developed the TruReach platform to give service providers a convenient, streamlined way to identify legitimate voice, SMS and RCS communications attuned to how those enter their network in a variety of ways. This verification is particularly valuable for businesses that have multiple service providers because they have operations around the U.S.
Feb 18, 2020
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iconectiv withdraws from MWC Barcelona 2020 over coronavirus-related concerns

BRIDGEWATER, NJ – February 10, 2020 -  After closely monitoring the spread of the novel coronavirus and in reviewing travel recommendations from world health organizations, iconectiv has decided to withdraw its attendance at MWC Barcelona and all related events as we believe it is in the best interest of our employees to do so. As the largest telecom event in the world, MWC draws more than 100,000 attendees from nearly 200 countries. The sheer size and global nature of the event…
Feb 10, 2020
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iconectiv awarded Chile MNP administration contract

Chile’s Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunication has awarded a 5-year contract to manage the country’s mobile number portability (MNP) database to Telcordia Technologies Chile, S.A. Under the terms of the contract, Telcordia Technologies Chile, S.A. will now continue as the MNP database manager until 2025.
Feb 4, 2020