MOCEAN SMS Firewall

The Solution

In many countries, public awareness campaigns have taken place to educate the general public on SMS based fraud.

However as targeted SMS fraud on Mobile Operators involves mobile network manipulation, a technical solution needs to be looked into by Mobile Operators. Mocean SMS Firewall provides Mobile Operators a solution to regain control over SMS revenue leakages.

Mocean SMS Firewall detects fraudulent activities efficiently

Mocean SMS Firewall provides Mobile Operators to overcome the following key activities that causes SMS revenue leakage:

	Symptom: Unsolicited SMS messages are send to subscribers   Impact To Mobile Operator:   i. Unhappy Subscribers whom may potentially churn   ii. Higher usage and load on network resources increases equipment CAPEX for non-revenue generating transactions   Mocean SMS Firewall allows Mobile Operator to block Spammers easily!
	Symptom: Extra-ordinary number of SMS sent into Mobile Operator’s network   Impact To Mobile Operator:   i. Normal SMS delivery and non-SMS services may be affected causing bad Subscriber experience which may in turn encourage churn   ii. Higher usage and load on network resources increases equipment CAPEX for non-revenue generating transactions   Mocean SMS Firewall allows Mobile Operators to identify flooding pattern and block the transactions automatically!
	Symptom: Mobile Operator’s Network is deceived in terminating SMS from a fake originating SMSC (using either invalid or a Partner Operator’s SMSC identity)   Impact To Mobile Operator:   i. Inter-networking billing will be affected as Partner Operators will be wrongly billed with traffic that did not originate from them   ii. For invalid SMSC identity, loss of revenue as there is no one to bill for the SMS transactions   iii. Mobile Operator may wrongly suspend SMS service of Partner Operator (e.g. in cases where Subscriber complaints of receiving scam SMS-es) causing inter-working issues and drop in revenue of valid SMS traffic from Partner Operator   iv. Higher usage and load on network resources increases equipment CAPEX for non-revenue generating transactions   Mocean SMS Firewall allows Mobile Operators to identify the fake transactions and reject it before any harm is done!
	Symptom: Mobile Operator’s SMSC is deceived in sending SMS from a spoofed Mobile Subscriber (using either invalid or actual Mobile Subscriber number)   Impact To Mobile Operator:   i. Mobile Subscriber will be wrongly billed causing bad Subscriber experience, which may in turn encourage churn   ii. Loss of revenue as there is no one to bill for the SMS transactions   iii. Inter-networking billing will be affected as Partner Operators will be billing Mobile Operator for spoofed SMS traffic that are routed to their network   iv.. Higher usage and load on network resources increases equipment CAPEX for non-revenue generating transactions   Mocean SMS Firewall allows Mobile Operators to block spoofed transactions being terminated in the network!
	Symptom: Fraudster scans for an unsecured SMSC in Mobile Operator’s network and use the SMSC to send fraudulent SMS   Impact To Mobile Operator:   i. Loss of revenue as there is no one to bill for the SMS transactions   ii. Increase in Inter-networking billing for fraudulent SMS transactions sent to Partner Operators network   iii. Higher usage and load on network resources increases equipment CAPEX for non-revenue generating transactions   Mocean SMS Firewall alerts Mobile Operators of potential GT Scanning activities for further action!
	Mocean SMS Firewall provides Mobile Operators the peace of mind by providing a solution to all the key SMS revenue leakage causes listed above. Contact us now to find out more about our SMS Firewall solution. Let Mocean SMS Firewall assist you in assuring your SMS revenues today!
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