Fraud
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In a major collaborative effort, GSMA and UK Finance have united leading UK mobile operators and banks to launch Scam Signal, a new tool designed to tackle Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud.
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The GLF, a leadership body representing the international connectivity industry and i3Forum, a membership-funded organisation of the international communications ecosystem, have announced the publication of a new industry framework designed to combat fraudulent activities.
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Numbering intelligence solution provider XConnect has hired Stephen Ornadel as VP of strategic relationships and product development.
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The ITW Global Leaders’ Forum (GLF), in partnership with the i3Forum, has released a Code of Conduct to fight fraud in the international voice market
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One Consortium, the not-for-profit organisation will work with telecommunications regulators (NRAs) globally to tackle illegal and unwanted voice calls and messages originating from abroad.
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The inaugural Global Fraud Summit took place in London earlier this week revealed £3 billion is lost annually in the UK
Forthcoming events
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Freshwave, a UK network service provider, has appointed Tom Bennett as its new chief technology officer (CTO).
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To keep up with exploding demand for bandwidth, broadband operators are spending significant amounts of money on their networks. Of course, they want to see a healthy return on that investment, but with traffic growing many times faster than revenues, that can be a challenge. How do you close the gap? Where do you invest to increase revenues or reduce cost
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Savills has launched its EMEA data centre advisory team, headed by former Digital Realty exec Scott Newcombe.
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Hyperscale specialist AirTrunk is planning to build a new Sydney facility it describes as " the largest single campus in the Asia-Pacific region", excluding China.
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Zain Group has announced that Zain Esports has partnered with the Kuwait Olympic committee to manage a four-weekend esports event from 12 November to 4 December.
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Project Kuiper launch dates; telco negotiation tactics; and GSMA's Stephanie Lynch-Habib
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved Boeing Co’s application to launch and operate 147 satellites to provide high-speed broadband internet access.
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XConnect, a London-based numbering specialist, has launched a service that can save carriers dollars per minute in wrongly identified calls.
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NTT Ltd has set out how it will achieve net zero emissions by 2040, with global CEO Abhijit Dubey saying the company has an "obligation to make the world a more sustainable place".
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IBM has completed the spin-off of Kyndryl with the business trading on the New York Stock Exchange, from today.
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Global spending on cloud services reached a new record in Q3 2021, to hit US$49.4 billion, however the impact of the global chip shortage on the data centre industry is "imminent".
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Canadian-owned data centre provider eStruxture is adding a second facility in Calgary, planned for the second half of 2022.