Traditional messaging services from operators have a long time been viewed as under threat from OTT offerings However, in terms of revenues, SMS still continues to dominate the market, with MNOs benefiting from growth in the A2P (application to person) sector.
As a result, this is a business fraudsters did not wait too long to exploit: SMS fraud is now affecting operators in all regions around the globe. They have to address the loss of revenue arising from the presence of 'grey' route messaging in the global application-to-person (A2P) SMS marketplace.
Araxxe's services can help you maximize SMS termination revenues!
Roaming and Interconnect Managers, let's talk!
SMS Wholesale Fraud : You need to counter SMS Fraud quickly?
Challenge: SMS fraud schemes impact termination revenues, so do you have SMS fraud under control given the countless routes fraudsters can use to bypass SMS termination fees?
Solution: We identify which type of fraud is occurring on your network and help you eliminate it: be it SIM Box SMS (on-net, off-net), SMSC Global Title Faking, Subscriber Spoofing, Fraudulent Circumventions (via 3rd party MNO / Aggregator / Hub) or SMSC Hacking.
SMS Wholesale Revenue Assurance: You need profitable interworking contracts?
Challenge: Do you know if the interworking contracts you have in place are “really” profitable?
Solution: When we identify fraudulent routes we guide you with our expertise and insight in asking you the right questions, for example: 1) if you have an agreement in place (AA19), does your roaming partner comply? 2) When no agreement is in place, is there any abuse of the non-contracted routes? 3) What about SMS Hubs and aggregators, do they route all incoming traffic, and is it properly billed?
►►► Our added Value: our SMS specific routes, our expertise:
We know what we are talking about: for tracking SMS fraud, we have more than 350 routes especially dedicated to find any open doors.
We generate calls to a broad range of “SMS specific” routes: OTT's, MNO's, MVNO's, SMS Hubs, transport/Purchasing/Streaming companies, Web SMS aggregators, Banking/insurance/healthcare ...
Our managed services produce factual data and actionable reports about SMS fraud cases occurring on the operator network and impacting SMS termination revenues.
Our team focuses on executing the tests and your Fraud & Revenue Assurance team focuses on requirements, results analysis, and corrective actions!
►►► Araxxe's services: much more than a firewall
We generate a sample of incoming SMS (P2P and A2P) and check whether the SMS are properly billed.
We challenge the filtering rules and find new 'open doors' to the operator network.
We give you evidence how a specific SMS origination routes SMS traffic to the operator network (end-to-end monitoring).
We provide material proofs of traffic derivation to support negotiations with partners.
We provide material proofs of contract abuse to support legal actions (e.g. traffic reselling) and detect 'SIM Box SMS' fraud (on-net).
Return on Investment- Business results:
- What have we done?
In our international call campaign, we generated thousands of SMS from underground routes to the Operators network.
Each time an unexpected Global Title or a weird Sender Id was detected, we raised a case with the routing experts of the fraud and the wholesale team.
- What are the business results?
After 12 months of monitoring the share of correctly billed SMS has increased from 48% of the received SMS to 91%. The program brought 3.5 Million Euros per year of extra SMS Termination revenues!
