As a result of SBNA misuse, the operator was leaking inventory by almost 25% in their pre-paid mobile phone market, a loss amounting to a staggering $60 million USD per year. The root cause of this is the ease in which mobile phones can be unlocked from a network, and at scale. Traditional mobile phone locking is notoriously insecure and it’s easy for customers to have a device unlocked, including one with network use obligations. However, with Trustonic’s secure Telecoms Platform, devices are bound to their modem cryptographically, making it almost impossible for the phone to be unlocked from a network other than by the operator.

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