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Syniverse wins Saudi Telecom anti-fraud contract |
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Tuesday, 09 October 2007 |
Saudi Telecom Company (STC) will implement the most advanced roaming fraud protection available almost a year ahead of a GSM Association's (GSMA) October 2008 deadline for member companies. STC will deploy Syniverse DataNet, a solution developed in conformance with the GSMA's Near Real-Time Roaming Data Exchange (NRTRDE) initiative, to ensure data records that track subscriber roaming activity are exchanged more rapidly between home and visited operators. Replacing the existing, outmoded High Usage Reports (HUR) system with the NRTRDE standard reduces data record exchange time from 36 to 4 hours, enabling operators to spot fraudulent activity much more rapidly and reduce potential fraud losses by up to an estimated 90%. The NRTRDE standard was developed by the GSMA to effectively combat the growing threat of International Revenue Share Fraud and to help operators the world over benefit from a far more accurate and timely view of how their networks are performing against fraud. With NRTRDE, the visited (roaming) network will be required to forward call data records to the subscriber's home operator within four hours of the call end time, closing the roaming fraud window that currently is open on operator networks that use HUR. If the visited operator is unable to get this information to the home operator in time, the visited operator will be liable for any fraud associated with those calls.
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