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Aduna and Bridge Alliance team to promote open network APIs

Aduna and Bridge Alliance team to promote open network APIs

Ericsson-led open network API joint venture Aduna announced on Saturday it has struck a partnership with the Bridge Alliance to combine their efforts to promote and speed up adoption of CAMARA-based network APIs.

Under the partnership deal revealed just before the start of Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona, Aduna will expand its reach in Asia-Pacific via the Bridge Alliance’s operator members who are adopting open network APIs via the Bridge Alliance API Exchange (BAEx).

Aduna developer platform partners – which include Google Cloud, InfoBip, Sinch and Vonage – will have direct access to Bridge Alliance partner networks working with Aduna. Meanwhile, enterprise customers of Bridge Alliance members working with Aduna will be able to tap the benefits of Aduna’s global reach and rapidly growing mobile operator ecosystem.

Spearheaded and announced by Ericsson in September 2024, and launched in January, Aduna combines and sells network APIs globally via member operators, which currently includes América Móvil, AT&T, Bharti Airtel, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Reliance Jio, Singtel, Telefonica, Telstra, T-Mobile, Verizon and Vodafone.

Aduna – which uses CAMARA-based network APIs specified under the GSMA Open Gateway framework – aims to smooth over the difficulties developers face in integrating the different capabilities of hundreds of telecom operators, which has to be done one operator at a time. Aduna enables developers to access APIs from multiple operators at once and develop apps on a larger scale, whilst also making the APIs available to a broader ecosystem of developer platforms.

BAEx – which was launched in July 2024 – works on a similar principle by aggregating member operators’ CAMARA APIs, which provides enterprises and developers with common API framework to access telco network capabilities across multiple regions. BAEx currently offers network APIs for Number Verification and SIM Swap. In January 2025, its Number Verify API was certified by GSMAs Open Gateway. Bridge Alliance says 14 of its 34 member operators have currently committed to BAEx.

Bridge Alliance CEO Ong Geok Chwee said that the Aduna partnership would not only increase the market reach for developers already working with Bridge Alliance – and add substantial numbers to Aduna’s global developer ecosystem – but also increase market reach for the millions of developers already in the Aduna ecosystem.

“Together with Aduna, we are enabling a broader ecosystem of APIs,” he said in a statement. “Enterprise customers will be able to consume telco APIs for their regional business with ease. More importantly, all parties benefit from our streamlined technical and commercial framework when working with network APIs.”

Aduna and Bridge Alliance said they will also work with ongoing global standardisation efforts for open network APIs led by GSMA Open Gateway, CAMARA and TM Forum.

Since last year’s MWC event, numerous operators in China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Argentina and South Africa have launched commercial services using Open Gateway APIs, mainly related to fraud prevention, such as number verification, SMS two-factor authentication, SIM swap, and device location.

Orange LiveNet – Orange’s newly launched dedicated business unit aimed at marketing network APIs – says that network APIs innovations are set to make a powerful impact at MWC2025.



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