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The Future of Telecom Roaming Platforms

Written by Telna | Nov 13, 2024 1:37:40 PM

52% of telecom CEOs, compared to 45% of all CEOs, believe their company won’t be economically viable in a decade if they continue on their current path. This speaks to the innovative nature of the telecoms industry and how it inherently shifts, grows, and evolves. There’s constant pressure on CSPs and MNOs to move with the times and keep pace with technological developments, competitors, and customer demands while generating new revenue streams. 

The wholesale platforms that operators turn to need to hold this at their core. A successful roaming platform will have a proven ability to provide vast access and connectivity and will continue to innovate and ensure customers can stay agile, all while being able to introduce new opportunities for CSPs or MNOs. At Telna,this is at the heart of our operations and solutions. In this blog, we’ll explore how we’ve managed to create the most advanced wholesale platform for eSIM connectivity.

 

Key Requirement #1: Unlocking Global Connectivity

We offer global eSIM connectivity via our highly advanced wholesale platforms to MNOs and CSPs at a global scale. Our platform strategy provides instant connectivity for devices, end-users, and businesses in 180+ countries through a simple and hassle-free implementation process.

We have two primary platforms, crafted with our customers’ unique needs in mind: 

  • Cloud Network Platform: API-driven and end-to-end managed, our Cloud Network Platform helps roaming providers and Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) without their own network infrastructure. The platform enables providers to unlock global connectivity reliably and cost-effectively. 

  • Connectivity Hub: This platform is aimed at traditional MNOs either looking to integrate further roaming sponsors into their existing infrastructure or wishing to resell their connectivity to CSP customers.

Key Requirement #2: Frictionless End-User Experience

Through our platforms, we craft a seamless end-user experience. With a solution that requires little implementation and allows customers immediate access to a global network of direct roaming partners, customers have no need to negotiate individual roaming agreements, and they gain an almost identical experience to using a local network. We’re able to provide a reliable, positive user experience whilst helping the world stay connected with easy access to a global network. Our managed offering of white-labeled Shopify eSIM stores also enables us to provide a reliable, fully end-to-end user experience.

Our unique combination of a global network infrastructure and flexible, easily integrable platforms set us apart from the crowd. Our end-to-end managed infrastructure ensures reliability and uninterrupted service for customers and end-users alike, and our 30+ direct roaming sponsors guarantee global coverage, even where latency is an important factor. Despite the complexity of this network, our APIs guarantee an easy implementation and greatly accelerate the adoption of eSIM, making accessing global networks simpler than ever.

 

Key Requirement # 3: Helping You Embrace the eSIM Revolution

The eSIM is rising significantly in popularity within telecom roaming. Offering increased flexibility, lower hardware costs, and increased security, it’s solidly established as the clear successor to the nano SIM. With a projected 208% growth in the eSIM market between 2024 and 2028, Apple’s eSIM-only iPhone 16 launched in the US, and Android and Google handsets following behind, the eSIM revolution is only just beginning.

Telna’s platforms not only embrace the eSIM, but help accelerate adoption for CSPs and MNOs. Telna helps our customers take advantage of this growing opportunity and transform it into tangible business benefits and an enhanced customer experience. In doing so, we showcase our dedication to innovating right alongside the industry, ensuring our customers can remain agile and embrace new opportunities and technologies with ease.

Looking to the Future of Telecom Roaming

At Telna, we understand better than anyone the urgency of the telecom roaming industry, and we’re committed to providing CSPs and MNOs with advanced tools to navigate it. By ensuring simple, scalable access to global networks, we empower our customers to stay ahead of market demands and make the most of the eSIM revolution. We look forward to continuing this journey and helping our clients thrive in an industry where change is the only constant.

Want to find out more about our platforms, and which is best suited for your operations? Reach out today at info@telna.com, and join the future of telecom roaming platforms.