December 17, 2018

Leading SMS Firewall Vendor 3rd Year Running

ROCCO announces the Tier One Providers in SMS Firewall for 2018.

92 operators were surveyed in 104 countries rating 17 vendors to recieve the results

Tier One means that across all categories these providers reached 4-5 points out of 5 in over 40 KPI’s

SMS Firewall is growing in appeal for MNOs. An SMS Firewall is crucial to the monetisation of SMS and in this report hear it directly from the MNOs who take part in the research.

An SMS Firewall can be used for protecting both incoming as well as outgoing messages making sure that a the operator is not being abused by third parties. Primarily SMS Firewall has been used for keeping out spam SMS and/or A2P SMS. More recently the focus on A2P SMS filtering for e.g. grey routes in order to maximise the monetisation of A2P SMS is the primary driver of SMS Firewall implementations.

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December 17, 2018