WTL partner with specialists to help to eliminate SMS spam.
3 September 2019 – WTL today announced a partnership with Anti-Spam Specialist Katia to help operators eliminate unwanted SMS spam.
Nuisance text messages are an ongoing problem for both consumers and operators. Recent figures estimate that in 2018 around 33.4 billion spam texts were received by people in the US alone.
Katia’s software scans the content of text messages to check for patterns of suspicious or offensive content, key words – and identical content being sent to multiple devices. Katia identifies the IP addresses sending suspicious texts and incorporates these into its database of banned IP addresses. This database is constantly updated both internally and by tracking spam activity across the world and is applicable to both P2P and A2P messaging.
By including Katia’s database of banned IP addresses into its award-winning software, WTL can block nuisance SMS traffic as it enters an operator’s network.
WTL’s new Anti-SMS Spam Service is easy for operators to deploy within their networks. It can be offered direct to their subscribers as a premium service – or incorporated into the overall offering and used to differentiate the operator from other providers.
Maxime Winkler, CEO of Katia said “WTL is much admired for its innovative signalling and messaging product portfolio. By partnering with us, it is now able to block most SMS spam messages across its networks. This will be welcomed by WTL’s operator customers – and their customers”.
WTL’s Anti-SMS Spam Service is available as a stand-alone service or as part of its SMS Hub Service, which enables operators in emerging markets to set up their own SMS hubs. It will support both IP-based and legacy network infrastructure. Operators can increase revenues from text messages by setting up their own SMS hubs rather than outsource the routing of text traffic to and from other networks to SMS hubs such as Infobip based in London or Syniverse in Florida, USA.
Leigh Smith, MD of WTL, said “Marketers see texts as an easy way to reach consumers direct. However, not all of us want to receive unwanted and unrequested information in this way.
We received requests for help for a number of our operator customers and I am delighted that we are able to include a proven anti-spam system in our system”.
WTL’s multi-award winning systems are used by operators across the world to build and manage their VoIP and messaging networks.
About WTL
Headquartered in Belgium with offices in the UK, Nigeria and Brazil, WTL helps operators in developed and emerging markets to deploy cost-effective, reliable voice and data networks for both rural and urban environments.
WTL has deployments world-wide with a well-deserved reputation for excellent service, reliable products and an expert team.
WTL’s innovative, practical and cost-effective portfolio includes its:
- Signalling gateways and pre-paid applications for emerging carriers and telecom service operators.
- Award-winning range of high capacity VoIP and hybrid VoIP/TDM switches which have been specifically designed to replace the huge, expensive, maintenance-heavy switches traditionally used to transfer VoIP traffic onto other networks.
- Award-winning Vivada (Village Voice and Data), specifically developed so that operators, wholesale carriers and ISPs in emerging markets can build low OPEX, low-CAPEX networks in rural areas.
For more information visit www.wtl.be or contact WTL’s PR rep on +44 7946 342 903, skype: bridgetfishleigh or bridget@telecomsprafrica.com
