Open Gateway continues unstoppable. The industry initiative, which was launched by GSMA (Global Mobile Ecosystem Association) in the Mobile World Congress (MWC) of 2023, has been deploying for years thanks to agreements with different technological, companies and institutions around the world such as Tiktok, Cabify, Google Cloud or even the Community of Madrid. Chema Alonso, Chief Digital Officer of Telefónica, has presented several of the achievements made by the Teleco in the MWC held from Monday until March 6.
Telefónica has closed agreements with more than 50 large companies around the worldfigure that will increase since there are still numerous companies interested in the adoption of APIS (lines of information exchange code) of Open Gateway to improve the digital services they offer to their customers.
The Community of Madrid next to Telefónica They have announced a collaboration protocol to use these APIs in public administration to “optimize” its internal processes and create a “more modern” administration that can respond more agilely and effectively to the needs of Madrid. And it is sought that through Open Gateway the digitalization of public services in key areas such as health, transport, justice and tourism is facilitated.
Miguel López-Valverde Argüeso, Minister of Digitalization of the Community of Madrid, has assured that they have introduced these APIs to access their health services with automatic authentication of the telephone number without it being necessary to receive an SMS or use a third-party verification system. In this way, he pointed out that The virtual health card will be “much more usable and simple,” facilitating “the lives of all people.”
Cabify has also allied with the teleco and It will begin to use the “numbers” API in your record processes, speeding up the process and improving your safety. Alonso has asserted that they are working “Collaboratively to win 12 seconds in people’s lives and make a better experience. “
Telefónica and Tiktok extend their alliance to Europe
The Telecommunications Company announced its strategic alliance with Tiktok in 2024 to design a simpler and safest incorporation process based on the “numbers verification” API. And this year, This solution will be launched in Brazil during the first half of 2025 And it will be extended to the strategic markets for both companies, said Alonso.
In addition, Both companies have announced plans to collaborate in a new “age verification” API that complement the existing measures of Tiktok to guarantee and confirm the age of its users and thus “help to guarantee appropriate experiences for age.”
Telefónica too It is associated with Google Cloud to integrate Open Gateway in Google Firebase, A platform with more than three million active developers “that offers a set of cloud tools and services, including authentication services.”