Company Profile/

Global Telco Consult (GTC) is an independent and trusted A2P business messaging consultancy with deep knowledge and experience in launching, optimising, and accelerating messaging services and strategies. GTC provides tailor-made messaging strategies to Enterprises, Messaging Service Providers, Operators, and Voice Carriers. The GTC team has expertise in multiple messaging channels such as RCS, Viber, WhatsApp, Telegram, and SMS for the wholesale and retail industry.

Customers can select from GTC’s unbiased consultancy, managed services or revenue assurance offerings. GTC supports its customers from market strategy through service launch, running the operations, and supporting sales and procurement.

MEF Minute/

Business SMS – Challenges & Opportunities

Taken from MEF Connects Wholesale, José García – Founder @ Global Telco Consult introduces the session on enterprise messaging, opening with a keynote presentation from Jerome Gasic, Head of Messaging at BICS, who explores the top 3 challenges & opportunities for business messaging. The session then moves to the panel discussion entitled “A2P SMS at a crossroads – MNO’s safety belt or the last bullet?”

MEF Briefing: Securing SMS for Enterprises

Last month MEF’s Future of Messaging Programme launched its Securing A2P SMS Business Messaging Whitepaper developed by members of its Fraud & Security Working Group. The comprehensive guide makes best practice recommendations when using SMS for Two Factor Authentication and provides practical use cases.

In this webinar, some of the contributors of the paper come together to discuss best practices for ensuring SMS remains a clean and secure channel for enterprises particularly when it comes to sending OTPs.

The strength of the Messaging Ecosystem at MEF

Last week, MEF’s Future of Messaging Programme launched its Securing A2P SMS Business Messaging Whitepaper developed by members of its Fraud & Security Working Group. The comprehensive guide makes best practice recommendations when using SMS for Two Factor Authentication and provides practical use cases. The working group was led by GTC’s Giovanni Benini who here shares the collaborative approach that had the goal to help demystify the complexities of the messaging ecosystem and provide member uses cases how the industry is tackling fraud.

RCS: All systems go for launch?

Giovanni Benini, from MEF Member and messaging specialists Global Telco Consult discusses the future of Rich Communications Services and analyses the factors that will influence their successful launch.

Have you ever watched a launch of Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon rockets? If not, I’d recommend joining a YouTube live stream of the nowadays quite frequent lift offs.In the messaging space, we are also currently watching a launch.

Rich Communication Services (RCS) is the next generation SMS. RCS has been put onto the launch pad a few times in the past 10 years without taking off for various reasons…