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  1. Protect Your Customers from One-Ring Scams: Trusted Tools to Fight Fraud

    During the panel session, “Protect Your Customers from One-Ring Scams: Trusted Tools to Fight Fraud,” iconectiv telecom fraud expert David Estes discussed how CSPs are upgrading their existing call-blocking analytics to identify calls from high-risk and unallocated number ranges and suspicious premium-rate numbers.

  2. What does the future hold for RCS?

    RCS has for a number of years been branded as a gamechanger and evolution of the existing SMS messaging product. This still has the opportunity to be the case, but current market dynamics, limited adoption and use cases has seen RCS struggle to gain the momentum it felt it could achieve. We ask panellists about RCS’ value proposition and where does this leave SMS?

  3. U.S. Phone Scam Prevention Efforts and their Global Impact

    U.S. Phone Scam Prevention Efforts and their Global Impact: On 30 June 2021 U.S. service providers are required to deploy the STIR/SHAKEN framework to protect U.S. consumers from telephone number spoofing and unwanted calls. Additional regulations have also been put into place intended to curb unwanted international calls. These new regulations will impact global service providers that…

  4. Trust is Everyone’s Business: Protecting brands, consumers and our networks in a time of digital distrust

    In 2019, Americans alone received more than 77 billion robocalls. Many other countries are also feeling similar increase in illegal “spam” robocalls which results in significant…

  5. iconectiv Kicks-off NPAC Transition with Onboarding Webcast

    iconectiv, the newly named next Local Number Portability Administrator (LNPA) for all U.S. regions, will hold its initial Number Portability Administration Center (NPAC) transition webcast on September 21, 2016 from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET. The first in a series of transition-related events, the webcast will focus on the registration component of Onboarding for Service Providers, Service Bureaus…

  6. The long and short of mobile marketing for your dealership

    By Ron Cariker of Power Sports Business

    Choosing a mobile vendor to work with and help communicate to your most loyal customers is a critical endeavor. In mobile marketing, like any marketing, there are many options. You can select a partner based on price or services or reputation. At the end of the day you want to find a solution that not only fits your needs but will best serve your…

  7. effective equipment product change management

    Cincinnati Bell Telephone (CBT), like many service providers, has continuously improved operations efficiency resulting in reduced operations expenses. With this benefit, however, has come the challenge of how to give the necessary attention to operational processes while utilizing fewer resources.

  8. winning against the telecom fraudsters

    The telecom industry loses about $6 billion annually due to interconnect bypass fraud, or SIM box fraud, according to the Communications Fraud Control Association (CFCA)¹. Despite having deployed sophisticated fraud management systems, SIM box fraud continues to cost an average service provider more than $2 million per year based on a survey by ROCCO².

    Fraudsters avoid call charges by…

  9. ATIS and iconectiv Named to Key Management Roles in the New M2M Registry

    WASHINGTON, DC and PISCATAWAY, NJ — ATIS and iconectiv today announced their leadership roles in the development of the new Application Identifier (App-ID) Registry for oneM2M, the global standards initiative for M2M communications and IoT...

  10. mobile shortcodes key to presidential communications

    Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton encourage supporters at their events and visitors to their campaign sites to sign up to receive text messages...