Aepona Joins Wholesale Applications Community

Aepona has joined the Wholesale Applications Community, a global alliance of telecommunications companies committed to building an open applications platform.

WAC has now formally adopted the GSM Association's OneAPI specification as the standard to be used by WAC operators for the exposure of network APIs. The OneAPI initiative is designed to reduce the effort and time needed to create applications and content that are portable across mobile operators and is aimed at enabling WAC developers to quickly and effectively develop web-based applications that span platforms, devices and operators. Graham Trickey, Senior Director, GSMA, commented: “The selection of GSMA OneAPI will guarantee its exposure by WAC operators and encourage widespread exposure by other operators, allowing Web application developers to use a common set of network enablers to reach more subscribers more easily. Operator billing is a key feature of GSMA OneAPI, enabling the development of additional revenue opportunities for operators and developers.”

Aepona's Universal Service Platform (USP) is the market's leading solution for the exposure of operator network and billing assets and is fully compliant to the OneAPI specifications. USP is the software engine that powers the world's first commercial OneAPI service in Canada, run by the GSMA and supported by TELUS, Bell Canada and Rogers.