Carriers and Operators

Inter-carrier Providers

  • Relevance: carrying international SMS traffic for roaming MNO subscribers
  • Use Case: security for SMS
  • Business Case: preventing subscriber churn and protect SMS QoS
  • Product Case: Multi-instance SMS Firewall

Tier-1 Operator Groups

  • Relevance: providing SMS services
  • Use Case: P2P SMS, A2P SMS, Enhanced SMS services
  • Business Case: stay relevant with SMS in subscriber ARPU
  • Product Case: (multi-instance) SMSC, SMS Router, SMS Personalized Services

Full/medium MVNO market

  • Relevance: carrying SMS traffic as service provider on top of MNO
  • Use Case: P2P SMS, A2P SMS, Enhanced SMS services
  • Business Case: targeting specific subscriber groups
  • Product Case: SMSC, SMS Personalized Services

MNOs w/ incumbent SMSC

  • Relevance: providing SMS services
  • Use Case: replacing existing SMSC (feature parity)
  • Business Case: lower OPEX of system from incumbent vendor
  • Product Case: SMSC, SMS Router, SMS Personalized Services

Innovating MNOs

  • Relevance: Carrying SMS traffic as service provider on top of MNO
  • Use Case: P2P SMS, A2P SMS, Enhanced SMS services
  • Business Case: Targeting specific subscriber groups
  • Product Case: SMSC, SMS Personalized Services
  • Examples: Participants of Europe RCS-e initiative