Infobip secures finalist spot in the Global Mobile Awards GSMA Open Gateway Challenge

Vodnjan, Croatia, 21 February 2024 – Global communications platform Infobip has been named as a finalist in the inaugural Global Mobile Awards GSMA Open Gateway Challenge for its anti-fraud intelligence collaboration.

In celebration of the 29th Global Mobile (GLOMO) Awards, widely regarded in the telco industry, the GSMA unveiled the inaugural Open Gateway Challenge. The challenge and award aims to encourage innovation and creativity by rewarding developers who utilize public Camara APIs to create commercial cloud-based services. The challenge seeks solutions that leverage multiple APIs from one or many mobile operators, cater to local and/or international markets, and demonstrate significant business value in specific vertical industries such as fintech and automotive.

Since the launch of the Open Gateway initiative Infobip has signed several collaboration agreements with network operators and ecosystem partners to use the platform, including Vivo, Claro, TIM Brazil, Vodafone and Orange Spain. New partnerships with Telefonica Spain, Personal Argentina and many more will happen in the near future.

Infobip has collaborated with VEON, a global digital operator that provides converged connectivity and online services, and technology business Nokia on the launch of the Geolocation Gateway, where the first implementation is in place in Uzbekistan. The Geolocation Gateway allows applications to determine the location of devices. For instance, for financial institutions, the Gateway will enable them to determine if an individual is present during a transaction such as an ATM withdrawal or a credit card payment.

Infobip’s nomination follows the firm’s partnership with three mobile network operators (MNOs) to launch Number Verify – the first Camara-compliant APIs in Brazil – under the Open Gateway initiative. This collaboration is part of Infobip’s CPaaS enablement solution for telcos that allows them to easily launch and monetize their emerging and future services, such as their core network capabilities being exposed through Camara APIs.

Infobip collaborated with Brazilian MNOs Vivo, Claro and TIM Brasil to offer the first Camara-compliant number verify API, which verifies the possession of end-user’s mobile phone number with the mobile network operator’s data connection. The partnership is made possible by Infobip’s Open Gateway channel partner status, which enables brands and developers to integrate Camara-compliant APIs through one single point of access, Infobip’s cloud communications platform.

Open Gateway is a GSMA-led telco industry initiative that transforms telecommunications networks into standardised platforms exposed to developers, based on a framework of APIs designed to provide digital services like device status, device location, number verification, and quality on demand. The initiative enables developers to break into new markets while customers benefit from new services and functionality.

Mijo Soldin, VP of Telecom Strategy at Infobip, said: “The recognition by GLOMO of our launch of Camara-compliant APIs in Brazil marks a critical step for Infobip, helping telcos deliver new services and gain new revenue. We will continue to build and offer additional Camara-compliant APIs worldwide, working closely with our telco partners to expose customer experience-friendly APIs to developers. Securing a finalist spot in these awards demonstrates Infobip’s global market-leading CPaaS position, strong developer relations and history of strategic telco collaborations. These are essential to increase the potential for a successful collaboration and faster time to revenue. Given the need for telcos to offer new services and create new revenue, we will replicate the rollout in other markets.”

Infobip has recently been named a Leader in the Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) market by analyst firm Gartner. In the first Gartner Magic Quadrant for CPaaS, Infobip is recognized as a Leader for its overall completeness of vision and ability to execute.1

Infobip is a global cloud communications platform that enables businesses to build connected experiences across all stages of the customer journey. Accessed through a single platform, Infobip’s omnichannel engagement, identity, user authentication and contact centre solutions help businesses and partners overcome the complexity of consumer communications to grow business and increase loyalty. With over a decade of industry experience, Infobip has expanded to 75+ offices globally. It offers natively built technology with the capacity to reach over seven billion mobile devices and ‘things’ in 6 continents connected to over 9,700+ connections of which 800+ are direct operator connections. Infobip was established in 2006 and is led by its co-founders, CEO Silvio Kutić, Roberto Kutić and Izabel Jelenić.

1 Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS)” by Lisa Unden-Farboud and Ajit Patankar, September 2023