A2P
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                    Salam has penned a strategic partnership with telecom solutions provider Mada to revolutionise messaging services across the Middle East.
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                    Business Telecommunications Services (BTS) has been named the exclusive global provider of A2P SMS services for BBIX, a SoftBank subsidiary, strengthening their five-year partnership.
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                    07 August 2024: Telecom Egypt, Egypt’s market-leading telecom operator, announces that it has signed a multi-year agreement with Mada Communications (Mada®), a leading telecoms solutions provider, to be its preferred strategic international SMS service provider.
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                    Azercell Telecom, a mobile operator in Azerbaijan, has appointed Vox Solutions as its exclusive partner for the direct termination of A2P SMS international traffic to Azercell's network.
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                    In what could be a major blow to a key revenue stream for operators, SMS authentication traffic could only rise by 4% next year, according to a new report from Juniper Research.
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                    Mobilesquared has published its updated report on A2P SMS, entitled Global A2P SMS: The complete overview 2017-2027.
 
Forthcoming events
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            Natalie Bannerman speaks to Ravinder Lota about how the mobile world is evolving and where Vodafone Carrier Services sees its place in the future of messaging.
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            Telserv has announced today that it has been acquired by Amsterdam-based MessageBird.
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            Sudatel Telecom Group (STG) and Etisalat’s Emirates Data Clearing House (EDCH) have confirmed the soft launch of the A2P messaging initiative.
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            Global Message Services (GMS) confirms that it has grown its market coverage in Nepal to 56%.
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            MEF has launched its Rich Business Messaging Best Practice Guidelines.
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            SMS has been a dependable, ubiquitous communications technology over the past two decades, after rapidly rising to become a preferred messaging method around the world. However, it is no secret that consumer usage has seen a transformation in recent years.
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            A new study from Juniper Research claims rich communications suite (RCS) traffic will have an average annual growth of 290% over the next four years.
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            The messaging and SMS industry is facing a problem with fraud. Bart Vandekerckhove, head of mobile messaging at BICS, talks to James Pearce about how the industry can work together to tackle fraud
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            The Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF) and the UK’s four mobile network operators have announced a new initiative aiming to combat fraud by SMS.
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            This year’s Messaging and SMS Global Awards were handed out at a ceremony in London this week, with Infobip walking away as the big winner.
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            AdaptiveMobile Security has launched a new commercial traffic control which aims to enable operators and aggregators in the messaging space to boost revenue from A2P messaging through analytics and controls.
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            Rich Communication Services is set to receive a boost in the United States after Verizon said it is set to launch support for the messaging technology, according to several reports.