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Webinar Recap: Unlocking the Power of Global Number Intelligence

Apr 25, 2025

On April 22, 2025, Somos hosted a deep-dive webinar – Unlocking the Power of Global Number Intelligence – featuring Somos’ Bill LaRuffa, Senior Director of Business Development, and Kyle Belcher, Senior Product Manager. The session brought focus to one of the telecom industry’s most underleveraged assets: real-time phone number intelligence.

With international routing complexity, fraud threats and mounting compliance pressures, reliable number data is no longer a luxury – it’s a necessity. Without a trusted source of global number insight, businesses risk inefficiencies, inflated costs and exposure to bad actors.

During this 30-minute webinar, Bill and Kyle highlighted four key components within Somos’ Global Number Intelligence offerings; each designed to enhance security, efficiency and trust across global communications:

• Global Number Range (GNR): Identifies whether a number is valid, what range it belongs to, its ownership and its type. GNR data enables fraud detection, optimized routing and efficient filtering of risky or invalid numbers – helping businesses steer clear of origin-based rating (OBR) surcharges and manipulated Caller Line Identifiers (CLIs).
   
• Number Portability Query (NPQ): Provides clarity on whether a number has been ported and identifies the current operator. NPQ improves cost efficiency and service delivery by enabling direct routing and minimizing dependency on intermediaries.
   
• Home Location Register (HLR): Offers real-time insight into the status of mobile subscribers, including network affiliation and reachability. For enterprises relying on high-volume messaging and voice, HLR data prevents wasted traffic and ensures messages are sent to active, reachable numbers.
   
• International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF) Check: Identifies and blocks exposure to high-risk numbers associated with IRSF schemes. This layer of protection empowers organizations to stay ahead of evolving fraud tactics by integrating continuous monitoring into their workflows.

The bottom line? Global Number Intelligence helps transform routine routing and verification processes into opportunities to reduce costs, enhance customer trust and fortify defenses against bad actors.

Whether you're looking to mitigate fraud, streamline costs or simply gain more control over your communications infrastructure, real-time global number intelligence can be a strategic differentiator. To learn more, reach out to the Somos team at connect@somos.com.

For those who were not able to attend the webinar, you can now catch up by accessing the on-demand recording for viewing anytime!