AdaptiveMobile has successfully completed a mobile content filtering, anti-spam and anti-virus protection project with MTN Nigeria, enabling the operator to protect its network and subscribers from undesired mobile content through mobile handsets and mobile data-enabled PCs.
The AdaptiveMobile Network Protection Platform is reducing network load, protecting the operator’s IP reputation from the growing threat of spam-related IP blacklisting and is reducing customer complaints.
MTN is the largest mobile network in MEA, and with over 40 million subscribers has seen phenomenal growth in mobile Internet services.
The collaboration with AdaptiveMobile is protecting subscribers across all its network services to counter current and emerging mobile network threats, as well as combat the small number of subscriber numbers that were being hijacked by criminal groups and used to send email spam over the mobile network.
“The roll-out of AdaptiveMobile’s Network protection Platform is enabling us to improve customer experience and achieve significant operational cost savings through protecting our network and our subscribers,” says Obinna Nweje, General Manager for MTN Nigeria.
“As with many operators globally, the shared nature of mobile IP addresses means that attacks from unscrupulous spammers can have a huge impact on IP address reputation and potentially result in innocent subscribers’ emails being unnecessarily blocked.”
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