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Argentina’s leading database administrator for number portability – Administradora de la Base de Datos (ABD) – is a strategic association made up of ���Ƕ���Ƶ and Telmark, a partnership agreement that is expected to last until 2026. Telephone numbers are considered a part of a person's identity, acting almost like a bar code that works as a multi-operator identifier worldwide. So, having a good quality numbering system, updated with the progress of technological demand, and compatible…

With illegal robocalls now representing nearly half of all unwanted calls in the U.S., consumers are opting to simply not pick up their phones. In fact, studies show that in the U.S. alone, 76% of calls from an unidentified or unfamiliar number are left unanswered, and 58% of consumers only answer calls from numbers they recognize. A previous article exploring how businesses can protect their brands against the damages from illegal robocalls touched on industry initiatives that are helping…

The Covid pandemic has accelerated not only digital adoption but also the scale and spread of scams. Every month, over 4 billion scam calls are made globally, with 23% of Americans reporting that they've lost money due to such calls in 2021 alone. During a panel session during Mobile World Congress Barcelona, George Cray, Senior Vice President at ���Ƕ���Ƶ, highlighted the growth in spoof calling and cited statistics revealing that 85 billion robocalls happen globally. He revealed that many…

In a recent VanillaPlus article, Peter Ford, Executive Vice President of ���Ƕ���Ƶ, explained how digital transformation will have a significant impact on connectivity and communications, along with identity verification. “Both are driving forces behind the acceleration of conversational commerce – completing customer e-commerce transactions through communications platforms likes Instagram and WhatsApp, for instance – and how businesses communicate with customers and how countries make…

Business strategies that involve 5G, edge computing and virtualized networking demand a universal structure for the deployment, interconnection and management of the physical and virtual assets these capabilities require. Essentially, the same terminology must be used to enable different domains within a communications service provider (CSP) to have visibility into each other and for external organizations, such as partners and vendors. For this interview, Eyad Alqadi, Regional Sales…

STIR/SHAKEN is a now widely-adopted protocol enabling telecoms to feed calling party attestation info to consumers when they receive a call from businesses. But phone calls from legitimate enterprises—such as a consumer’s bank, pharmacist, and doctor—are routinely NOT answered by consumers. So what “common language” or industry-adopted methodology will enable STIR/SHAKEN to evolve to its next level of usefulness? The Q&A with ���Ƕ���Ƶ and CTIA about their joint initiative,…

The science of selling is constantly evolving. Over the last several decades, selling has become more capital intensive, data driven, and teamwork oriented. Several secular forces have been changing the nature of selling incrementally over time. Peter Ford, Head of Information Solutions Business at ���Ƕ���Ƶ, shares his insights on allocating the most effort toward the biggest customer opportunities.  Read more here.