Why mobile networks need a culture of innovation to combat fraud
June 21, 2017 8:00 amHackers have emptied the bank accounts of a number of O2-Telefonica customers, reported Süddeutsche Zeitung last month. A security hole... View Article
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Malicious data interception attacks via SS7 – that we Precision Block
May 23, 2017 11:47 amEarlier this month hackers emptied the bank accounts of O2-Telefonica customers. The buzz on that hasn’t yet died and there’s... View Article
Operators Face $62bn Revenue Leakage From “Grey Route” A2P Traffic
September 23, 2016 4:54 pmJuniper Research – Juniper’s latest research debates the anticipated scale of revenue leakage for operators from A2P (Application to Person)... View Article
Fair Usage Policy for Roaming introduced by European Commission
September 20, 2016 12:49 pmEuropean Commission – For a decade now the Commission has been working to reduce roaming surcharges by telecoms operators, and... View Article
LTE and SS7 – today’s statistics – do they indicate longevity for SS7 networks?
June 30, 2016 3:18 pmA snapshot of today’s telecoms stats can make for some pretty valuable insights. Let’s dig into the data, via some... View Article
What is the difference between P2P SMS and A2P SMS?
June 20, 2016 4:41 pmWhen an SMS message exchanges between two mobile subscribers (two SIM cards) we call it P2P SMS (Person-to-Person SMS) and... View Article
SS7 Vulnerabilities – Mobile Network Security in the mainstream News
May 12, 2016 5:51 pm“I bumped into you in the hallway – I don’t know if you noticed that…? In that time, I pushed a... View Article
Major security flaw in SS7 – how SMS Home Routing can plug the gap
April 25, 2016 6:49 amWith the current buzz regarding SS7 network vulnerabilities and the exploitation of standard SMS methodologies to obtain confidential subscriber information... View Article
Subscriber Identity Disclosure: How an attacker can obtain IMSI of a subscriber?
March 19, 2016 7:01 amSince the “Subscriber Identity Disclosure” uses a portion of the Short Message Service (SMS) capability a brief explanation of SMS... View Article
Operator A2P SMS – it’s all about strategy (and some technology)
March 4, 2016 10:55 amLet’s get one fact straight, A2P SMS is by far the most preferred and efficient B2C communication tool used today.... View Article
Mobile World Congress – where the Mobile Industry goes to do business, but doesn’t.
February 21, 2016 6:54 pmIt’s been 12 years since Cellusys started to go to 3GSM in Cannes. But it’s not 3GSM any more,... View Article
Flavours of Roaming Steering; a comparisons of taste and texture between OTA, Signalling and Hybrid Steering Solutions
January 12, 2016 9:53 amDuring the many discussions I have had with different operators about Steering of Roaming, one issue which always comes up,... View Article
Does Diameter solve signalling fraud?
January 5, 2016 9:34 amSS7 signaling security is the current hot topic conversation on the web. This has been brought to the forefront of... View Article
Steering of Roaming: Active Redirection vs Passive Tapping
December 10, 2015 3:32 pmSteering systems are quickly becoming a de facto tool in a roaming departments toolkit. Without one, Operators are at a... View Article
Why is SS7 Steering needed in OTA Deployments?
December 2, 2015 3:10 pmFor many years mobile operators have attempted to steer their subscribers to preferred roaming partners when they are roaming. The... View Article
9 steps how an operator will succeed with its A2P SMS strategy
November 26, 2015 12:22 pmThe majority of unconsolidated and unbilled SMS comes from your roaming partners misusing their roaming agreements. It’s a fact and... View Article
8 SS7 vulnerabilities you need to know about
October 20, 2015 1:44 pmWow, SS7 has been in the network controlling wire-line and wireless calls since the mid 1980s and now we are... View Article
Is the SS7 Network open to attacks and if so what can we do about it?
September 1, 2015 4:00 pmSecurity within the SS7 network has been discussed from the beginning of network deployment dating back to the mid 1980s.... View Article
Mobile Roaming to Represent 8% of Operator Revenues by 2018
July 21, 2015 11:40 amA new report from Juniper Research has valued operator revenues generated from mobile roaming at nearly $90 billion by 2018,... View Article
Benefits of Connecting to IPX Networks (An Operators View)
April 17, 2014 9:29 amLTE networks are growing at a fast rate, more than 200 networks in three years have been deployed. IPX (IP... View Article