apidays Singapore 2025 - Building a Federated Future, Alex Szomora (GSMA)

Navigating the Future : Milestones and Opportunities of the GSMA OGW Initiative in APAC with a Focus on Financial Anti-Fraud Measures
Alex Szomora, GTM Senior Project Manager, Open Gateway at GSMA

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April 15 & 16, 2025

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1. Confidential © GSMA 2024 1 Alex Szomora Senior PM GSMA Open Gateway
2. Confidential preencoded.png The Developer’s Dilemma Fragmented Networks Building apps that interact with telco infrastructure is painful. Non-Standardized Carrier-specific, locked behind complex agreements.
3. Confidential preencoded.png Unified Framework Expose telco capabilities through standardized APIs. CAMARA Technical specifications. Built in privacy & consent. GSMA Business agreements templates. Simplified onboarding, service discovery, and monetization.
4. Confidential preencoded.png The Rise of Interoperable Network APIs 1 $500B Opportunity* Addressable API opportunity. 2 Telco Evolution From pipe to platform. 3 Open Gateway 78% of global mobile connections. *McKinsey
5. Confidential A glue between Cloud Infrastructure and Mobile Networks 5 Specification by Doing Code, not documentation Cloud Infrastructure Enhancing virtual ‘Cloud’ applications & services to enable Web3.0 Exposing network capabilities: Identity : 5G Capabilities : AI/Data : Privacy : Security Earth Networks CAMARA Operate APIs Service APIs (N) Telco Finder (N-E-W) Open Service (Northbound) Common Network APIs via CAMARA GitHub & GSMA Agreement Templates Open Federation APIs (East West Federation & Interconnection) via GSMA Operator Platform Specifications & Agreement Templates
6. Confidential GSMA Open Gateway covers 78% of Mobile Connections © 6 MoU Signatories Market Alignment Market Launches “Specification by code and doing” https://www.gsma.com/solutions-and-impact/gsma-open-gateway/
7. Confidential © GSMA 2025 7 Open Gateway in numbers 48 Open Service Agreement, Channel Partner On-Boarding and E-W Federation Agreement Templates Commercial Github repo & Standardization through certification Technical APIs published in 51 APIs in Development 72 operator groups and 40 Channel Partners supporting the Open Gateway MOU operator networks represented of mobile connections represented 112 >78% 284 Tracked commercial API launches across 58 networks in 27 markets market champion launches with align GTM services, engaged with 50 Markets 257 14 media mentions in 2025, 22K in 2024 7,569 Commitment Assets Impact
8. Confidential Open-Gateway.gsma.com
9. Confidential © GSMA 2024
10. Confidential Sri Lanka – October 2023 Single platform hosted by Axiata, 3 aligned APIs Robust 2nd Factor Authentication © GSMA 2024 10 Brazil –November 2023 Reseller platform by Infobip, 3 aligned APIs Combatting financial fraud with Itau and Decoval Banks
11. Confidential Spain Analysis of Brazil shows promise 11 Singapore Rwanda Sri Lanka Italy UK South Africa US Brazil Brazil Anti-Fraud APIs ~$9m 2024 Open Gateway $20-30m1 2030 McKinsey Based on Claro’s results, 10m SimSwap transactions per month by mid 2024 GSMAi SoM McKinsey Evaluation LatAm : FinTech : Auth : 1 MNO 1. Only including 5G Opengateway revenues, excludes connectivity and edge IaaS potential opportunity
12. Confidential China Telecom Use Case – Launching before MWCS 12 QoD API with: “QoD In 2023, China Telecom's 5G QOD API calls reached 570 million times, with 18.03 million active users and an average success rate of 98.8% and has generated tens of millions of revenue for CT.“ China Telecom =
13. Confidential Spain & Germany – March 2024 Platform hosted by Ericsson Vonage, implemented Anti-Fraud APIs in the Banking and Retail sectors © GSMA 2024 13 UK – Feb 2024 Operators launched Scam Call through various channel partners
14. Confidential 14 IMPACT Standardisation of the exposure of Network Capabilities (4G now and in the future 5G Advanced) through APIs to simplify and speed up interoperable connectivity for Enterprises and their Developers. GSMA Fusion established to understand demand that reflects the Enterprise connectivity and context (user identity) needs in B2B and B2B2C models. OGW APIs GSMA Fusion
15. Confidential Open Gateway plans for 2025 In 2024 $157m was revenue generated across 52 networks. There is a $2.1b monetisation opportunity if all 280 networks launched.
16. Confidential preencoded.png Where is this going by 2027? 300M+ Users 100+ APIs 40 Live Markets McKinsey
17. Confidential © GSMA 2025 17
18. Confidential © GSMA 2025 18 Channel Partner Engagement Momentum… 40 MoU Signatories Engaged
19. © GSMA 2025 19 GSMA Open Gateway Work Streams Open Gateway Steering Group (GSMA + Founding MOU signatories) GSMA Lead: Henry Calvert Open Gateway PMO GSMA Lead: Henry Calvert GSMA Lead: Olu Omobitan GSMA GTM Champions: Asia : Alex Szomora EMEA : Maliha Bhugalee EMEA: Nauman Saeed Anwar LATAM: Martin Wessel North America : Ruben Carrillo CAMARA (Linux Foundation) Service APIs GSMA Board Open Gateway Community GSMA Lead: Justin Paul Technical Workstream GSMA Lead: Mark Cornall mcornall@gsma.com Business Workstream GSMA Lead: Julia Gullstrand jgullstrand@gsma.com Product Portfolio Workstream GSMA Lead: Helene Vigue hvigue@gsma.com Comms Workstream GSMA Lead: Justin Paul open.gateway.marketing@g sma.com https://github.com/camaraproject GSMA OPG/OPAG Telco Finder Service https://github.com/GSMA-Open- Gateway TM Forum ODA Operate APIs TBA GSMA WAS Business Templates Member Gateway.com Market Champions Workstream GSMA Lead: Olu Omobitan oomobitan@gsma.com Channel Partner Workstream GSMA Lead: Raman Mistry rmistry@gsma.com
20. © GSMA 2025 20 Market Champions Launches Singapore Sri Lanka Malaysia Thailand Indonesia Australia Argentina USA Mexico Uruguay Brazil Spain Germany South Africa 47 Championed Markets 14 Markets Live China Anti-Fraud Anti-Fraud Anti-Fraud Anti-Fraud Anti-Fraud Anti-Fraud Anti-Fraud Anti-Fraud Ecuador Peru Chile Anti-Fraud Anti-Fraud Anti-Fraud Anti-Fraud UAE Philippines France Netherlands Belgium Nigeria UK Colombia Kuwait Saudi Vietnam Cambodia Japan SK TW HK Macau India