Smart’s GSMA Open Gateway API Certification: A Milestone for Safer Mobile Transactions
Smart’s GSMA Open Gateway API Certification: A Milestone for Safer Mobile Transactions
Manila, Philippines — PLDT’s wireless arm, Smart Communications Inc. (Smart), in collaboration with PLDT Enterprise, has achieved a significant milestone. They have become the first Philippine telco provider to earn the Open Gateway API certification from GSMA for Number Verification APIs. This certification marks a key industry achievement and demonstrates PLDT’s commitment to driving innovation, security, and digital transformation. By enhancing network API capabilities, Smart aims to help businesses thrive in the evolving digital landscape.
Enabling Ecosystem-Wide Innovation
By aligning with GSMA Open Gateway standards, Smart and PLDT Enterprise are reinforcing the Philippines’ position as a leader in API-driven digital transformation. This certification opens new opportunities for industries such as banking, e-commerce, retail, utilities, and fintech. These sectors can now integrate secure and scalable verification capabilities into their digital platforms, ensuring smoother and safer transactions.
Jojo Gendrano, Senior Vice President and Head of Enterprise Business Group at PLDT and Smart, emphasizes their commitment to helping businesses deliver secure and seamless experiences for mobile app users. “The GSMA Open Gateway-certified API, starting with Number Verification, paves the way for accelerated adoption of next-generation authentication solutions,” he says. “This is just the beginning, and we look forward to introducing more capabilities for our customers, aggregators, and the developer community.”
Strengthening Network Security and Digital Transactions
With cyber threats and fraud on the rise, secure authentication and seamless digital transactions have become top priorities for businesses. The GSMA Open Gateway certification enables Smart, in collaboration with PLDT Enterprise, to provide secure and interoperable network APIs that enhance authentication. In the future, Open Gateway can be leveraged to further prevent fraud, tap into location-based services, and dynamically define network quality.
Building on its Silent Authentication initiatives, Smart introduced more secure alternatives to traditional passwords and One-Time Pins (OTPs). The Open Gateway-certified Number Verification API allows businesses to offer frictionless and fraud-resistant authentication solutions, improving user experience while reducing security risks.
Driving Industry-Wide Digital Transformation
The GSMA Open Gateway initiative, developed in collaboration with the Camara open-source project under the Linux Foundation, ensures that network APIs are standardized, secure, and interoperable. By adopting these global standards, Smart and PLDT Enterprise enable businesses to integrate highly secure authentication and fraud prevention measures, reinforcing the country’s digital infrastructure.
This milestone also supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure. It further positions the Philippines as a hub for technological progress and industry-wide digital transformation.
Future Innovations and Opportunities
As Smart and PLDT Enterprise continue to enhance their digital offerings, the Open Gateway API certification serves as a foundation for future innovations. Businesses seeking to optimize their digital operations can now leverage these advanced network APIs to improve security, scalability, and seamless connectivity.
Smart and PLDT Enterprise are committed to providing secure and seamless experiences for mobile app users, paving the way for accelerated adoption of next-generation authentication solutions. This certification is just the beginning, and they look forward to introducing more capabilities that can be leveraged by their customers, aggregators, and the developer community.
Smart and PLDT Enterprise’s achievement of the GSMA Open Gateway API certification for Number Verification APIs marks a significant milestone in the industry. This certification demonstrates their commitment to driving innovation, security, and digital transformation. By enhancing network API capabilities, they aim to help businesses thrive in the evolving digital landscape. The certification opens new opportunities for industries to integrate secure and scalable verification capabilities into their digital platforms, ensuring smoother and safer transactions. As Smart and PLDT Enterprise continue to enhance their digital offerings, the Open Gateway API certification serves as a foundation for future innovations. Businesses seeking to optimize their digital operations can now leverage these advanced network APIs to improve security, scalability, and seamless connectivity.
For more information on PLDT Enterprise’s digital solutions, visit https://bit.ly/GSMAOpenGatewayAPICertification-PR. To learn more about the countries with GSMA Open Gateway API Certification, visit https://open-gateway.gsma.com/map
