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May 2011

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TERALIGHT Solutions for Fraud Detection

TERALIGHT Solutions for Fraud Detection

How Bypass Fraud is affecting the revenue of the operators and Regulator?

Bypass Fraud is one of the significant and most severe threats to a telecom operator’s revenue. It consumes a large amount of signaling and voice bandwidth as well as the resources of individual network elements (i.e. STPs, switches, databases). In order to properly identify By-Pass Fraud one needs to understand the reason and issues around this fraud. more...

 
 



Illegal Call Termination Costing Network Operators $150 Million a Year
NCA terminates 3,469 fraud numbers on AIRTEL

Illegal call termination costing network operators $ 150 million a year

Mobile networks are losing revenues worth at least US$150 million annually from the illegal termination of calls, also known as 'GSM Gateway' or 'SIM box' fraud, according to the source. more...


NCA terminates 3,469 fraud numbers on AIRTEL

Minister for Communication Haruna Iddrisu, said in the first twenty days of the 2011, 3,469 fraud numbers, 95 per cent of total fraud numbers, were terminated on AIRTEL's network. Mr. Iddrisu who was answering questions on the floor of Parliament noted however that the total number of fraudulent SIM cards had reduced from 12, 440 in October 2010 to 3,506 as of 20 January 2011. more...




Fraud inquiry delays Telecom Italia data
Lebanon’s VoIP ban

Phone SIM fraud costing LatAm companies millions

Mobile telephone phone fraud using cellphone subscriber identification module cards for unauthorized phone calls is costing companies operating in central and South American tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue. more...

Lebanon’s VoIP ban

The cacophony of foreign languages gave the small shop the feel of a UN General Assembly meeting. Four people from separate countries making international calls talked up a storm on Thursday, crammed into a tiny store on a side street in Hamra. more...




Tougher mobile phone registration proposed to curb telecom fraud in China

Tougher mobile phone registration proposed to curb telecom fraud in China

Political advisors on a South China provincial committee proposed that cell phone-number buyers be required to register their personal details to curb telephone fraud. The proposal was raised by 16 members of the provincial committee of the Democratic National Construction Association in South China's Guangdong Province at the local body's annual session. They also proposed telecommunication companies strengthen their monitoring efforts. Wang Zhengyin, one of the advisors, cited statistics from the Ministry of Public Security as saying that Chinese residents in coastal cities and provinces lost at least 600 million yuan ($90.9 million) to telecom fraudsters last year. more...




 

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