PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications and Telcel, Mexico’s premier cellular carrier, are teaming up to prevent fraud throughout Mexico’s B-side cellular markets.
Corsair will provide Telcel with the PhonePrint fraud prevention system, which uses radio frequency fingerprinting to detect subtle differences between the radio signals broadcast by different cellular phones and disconnects fraudulent calls. Corsair boasts a 90 percent reduction in fraudulent calls since its first deployment in the United States.
“This is a proven technology, and it’s completely invisible to the cellular user,” said Pedro Arzani, general director of Telcel. “We can offer a high level of service to our subscribers while making life much more difficult for cloners.”
Deployment is set to begin this month.
