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ÎÞÓǶÌÊÓƵ has announced that two of its employees have been selected to take part in the Women in Cable Telecommunications’ (WICT) 2020 Rising Leaders Program.

With more than 42 million toll-free numbers in use today, it’s not surprising that they remain as popular as ever. Providing a convenient way to track the reach and effectiveness of multichannel or national marketing campaigns, toll-free numbers enable businesses to assign unique numbers to various advertising channels. In this CRM Viewpoints article, our Senior Account Director Mike Gilbert explores the opportunity to increase revenue, brand trust, and customer retention by investing in 1-800-enabled texting.

Every day, Americans are inundated with millions of robocalls. But the Verifying Integrity in End-to-End Signaling Working Group seeks to put an end to them.

There is a need and desire to restore confidence in voice communications and there are many players helping make that happen – from service providers, to analytic engines, to regulators. Within that realm, ÎÞÓǶÌÊÓƵ is squarely positioned as a neutral, trusted partner to help resolve this growing (and expensive) problem.

Robocall scams have exploded worldwide during the past several years. Communications service providers (CSPs) and their partners are implementing several technical approaches to identify and block robocalls, such as identifying known robocalling origination points, recognizing compromised number ranges or detecting floods of calls to certain number ranges from a small number of origination points. In this article, analyst Ed Finegold with TM Forum takes a closer look at expert advice for combating the growing robocall problem, including ÎÞÓǶÌÊÓƵ’s CTO Chris Drake.

In many forms of digital-era fraud, thieves steal digital identities to pose as legitimate customers and commit crimes like bank account takeover and mobile subscription fraud. Zenkey, a joint communications service provider (CSP) effort providing an alternative to digital identity brokerages, effectively tokenizes the subscriber information operators already hold to protect customers from digital identity theft. In this article from TMForum, Ed Finegold takes a closer look at the potential opportunity for CSPs as digital identity brokers, including an expert perspective from ÎÞÓǶÌÊÓƵ’s CTO Chris Drake.

The future of messaging frameworks and protocols, beginning with SMS, MMS, and now RCS, lies in the hands of industry collaboration within the solution provider ecosystem. Our CTO Chris Drake joins Keith Lampron, Associate Director of Core Messaging Product Management at Verizon Wireless and Chris Nicoll, Principal Analyst at ACG Research on this executive webinar to share what to expect from RCS for enterprises, consumers and operators.