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MEF CEO Dario Betti speaks to Chris Drake, CTO of communications infrastructure specialist iconectiv about the USA communications market and how it is responding to the growing threat of telecoms fraud.

WASHINGTON, DC — The Secure Telephone Identity Governance Authority (STI-GA) today announced the execution of the contract with iconectiv as the Secure Telephone Identity Policy Administrator (STI-PA), a critical role in industry efforts to mitigate illegal robocalling. As the STI-PA, iconectiv enforces the rules defined by the STI-GA to operationalize the SHAKEN (Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs) framework. SHAKEN provides a mechanism for service providers …

The latest release of international specifications to help build future software-based mobile networks has been published by the Linux Foundation in the latest version of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP), and includes information services company iconectiv’s open source APIs for a new network functions virtualization (VNF) information service.  By combining industry-specific and service provider-specific verification…

iconectiv, a subsidiary of Ericsson's Telcordia Technologies, launched PortData Validate, a platform that allows financial institutions, healthcare providers and other authorized businesses to leverage telephone number porting data as part of their assessment when verifying a customer’s identity, approving a transaction or disclosing information. The data, exclusively available from iconectiv or an authorized reseller of iconectiv’s PortData Validate service, is the nation’s only authorized…

There is increasing crossover in the marketing techniques used for business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) communications.

Chris Drake, CTO, explains what SHAKEN is and how service providers can support it.

Release includes new demo and support services made available by iconectiv.