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Bandwidth Wins ‘Best CPaaS Platform’ Award From UC Today for Innovation, Experience and Execution
RALEIGH, N.C., July 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Bandwidth Inc. (NASDAQ: BAND), a leading global enterprise cloud communications company, today announced it has won the coveted UC Award for “Best CPaaS Platform.” Described as one of the highest honors in cloud communications, the UC Awards are hosted and presented by UC Today, the leading international news publication honoring excellence in UC & Collaboration technology.
“Bandwidth’s exceptional work in CPaaS has helped push the category forward, and we are thrilled to see their accomplishments acknowledged at UC Awards 2024,” said Rob Scott, UC Today’s Publisher.
“We are incredibly honored to accept this award on behalf of our global customers and all Bandmates who serve them,” said John Bell, Bandwidth’s Chief Product Officer. “This recognizes our unique and ground-breaking software innovations like Maestro™ and AIBridge, which enable enterprises to accelerate time to value and build a better customer, user and business experience–all delivered with the unparalleled reliability and resilience of our owner-operated Bandwidth Communications Cloud.”
As the digital landscape keeps growing, seamless communication forms the cornerstone of success in business. At Beem, we are committed to enhancing connectivity across Africa by introducing new, direct SMS routes to key markets. Our newest additions include direct integrations and connectivity with Airtel Zambia, MTN Zambia, and MTML Mauritius, marking a significant step forward in our mission to provide unparalleled SMS coverage across the African continent.
We are excited to announce our new direct connection to Airtel Zambia. Beem customers can now get direct access to Airtel Zambia’s large market share of 44%, (or over 9.5 million subscribers as of 2023). This direct connection allows businesses to communicate directly with a significant part of the Zambian population, ensuring faster, more reliable, and cost-effective messaging solutions.
At the same time, we are introducing a direct connection to MTN Zambia. MTN Zambia has 7.1 million subscribers and a 32% market share (2022) and our new connection gives our customers direct access to this subscriber base.
We are also proud to unveil our direct connection to MTML Mauritius. MTML Mauritius boasts 270,000 subscribers and a 20% market share (2022) and is a crucial player in the Mauritian telecoms landscape. Our direct connection to MTML Mauritius opens up new opportunities for our customers to tap into this market as they scale across Africa.
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Bitė Lithuania entrusts voice services to BICS in landmark deal for Europe
Bitė Group, one of the largest mobile network operators in the Baltics, controlling Bitė Lietuva and Bite Latvija, has concluded a new landmark deal and exclusive contract with international connectivity enabler BICS. The expanded partnership sees BICS handling all international voice traffic on Bitė’s network. Amidst a shifting market for traditional voice calls and ongoing Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) implementation acceleration in Europe, this agreement leverages BICS’ worldwide network and state-of-the-art fraud protection, so Bitė can optimize and channel its resources into developing new services and technologies.
“Voice call trends are changing and are driving us to look for new solutions that, at the same time, provide even stronger protection against remote criminals. Our agreement with BICS will allow Bitė telecommunications companies to provide high-quality international call services, whilst reducing operational complexity,” says Gintas Butėnas, CEO of Bitė Lietuva. “The market for traditional voice calls is changing with the rapid implementation of VoLTE taking place across Europe. The partnership with BICS will provide protection against fraud, while guaranteeing the quality of BICS’ global network. All this will help to optimize and modernize services and develop technological development to the benefit of our customers, who last year performed almost 11 million international calls.”
“We are delighted to see our long-standing trusted relationship with Bitė progress to this next stage,” says Sophie Greffier, CRO Telco, BICS. “The market for voice services has changed dramatically and this move from Bitė is a strategic response to this. Likewise, BICS, recognizes this and is committed to being the partner of choice for managed voice services and will continue to invest in tools and innovation to provide mobile operators with the best service on the market.”
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Veratad Selects IDVerse to Scale Up Global Document Fraud Analysis and Online Minor Protection
London, UK – 30 July 2024 – IDVerse, a pioneer in generative AI identity tools, celebrates a significant partnership with Veratad Technologies, LLC, a leader in global age and identity verification solutions, implements their next generation optical character recognition (OCR) and document fraud analysis (DFA) cores. Veratad, a world class provider of online Age and Identity Verification, has chosen IDVerse as the best in breed technology provider to enhance its global coverage and fraud prevention accuracy for its customers.
“We rigorously tested IDVerse and their technology extensively before implementing their document capture and fraud analysis modules and we continue to optimize the offering together. They are bringing the next wave of identity infrastructure to the market which aligns with our world-class verification solution” stated Thomas Canfarotta, VP of Product at Veratad.
“At IDVerse, our mission is to provide the best identity infrastructure for our partners, including solutions to verify age and protect minors online. Veratad exemplifies how this collaboration should work, ensuring readiness for all age and ID verification use cases,” stated Libby Robinson, Head of Partnerships of IDVerse.
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Route Mobile Limited enables WhatsApp-based ticketing for Nagpur, Pune, Hyderabad and Delhi Metro, becoming the largest enabler for such services in India.
Mumbai, 24 June, 2024:Route Mobile Limited (Route Mobile) has partnered with Billeasy E Solutions Private Limited (Billeasy) and enabled WhatsApp-based ticket booking for Pune, Hyderabad, and Nagpur metros in addition to Delhi. More than 75 lakh commuters use these metros every day. To purchase tickets, they need to visit the official WhatsApp account of the respective metro, choose the stations, make the payment, and receive tickets directly from the WhatsApp interface. They can also pay for the ticket right from WhatsApp.
Talking about this development, Rajdipkumar Gupta, Managing Director & Group CEO of Route Mobile, said, “Our focus is on creating some very unique solutions powered by messaging channels that revolutionize the way customers interact with brands. By enabling ticket booking on WhatsApp for four major cities, we have become one of the largest enablers in this space. This is also a testament to our innovative mindset and ability to solve complex problems with technology. I am extremely delighted about this deployment, thank our partners in this project and wish the commuters a safe and happy commute.”
He also added, “Any large-scale deployment needs to be supported by an equally capable infrastructure. This deployment showcases Route Mobile’s network capability and scalability. These kinds of unique customer journeys are what the engineering and product teams try to solve on a daily basis in Route Lab. We look forward to deploying more such solutions in the coming days”
