Mobile Identity Data and Insight

Mobile Identity is emerging as one of the most significant opportunities within Network APIs, helping enterprises tackle fraud, strengthen authentication and improve customer verification using trusted operator data.

This subscription provides 5-year forecasts covering Number Verification, SIM Swap, KYC Match, Age Verification and Call Forwarding across 200 markets and more than 800 mobile operators. Updated quarterly, it delivers detailed insight into market developments, launches and commercial adoption through 2030.

As SMS OTP becomes increasingly vulnerable to fraud, enterprises are turning to Mobile Identity solutions. Mobilesquared forecasts brand spend will increase by more than 1,500% by 2030, creating a multi-billion-dollar opportunity. This research helps operators, aggregators, CPaaS providers and enterprises understand where the market will scale and how the value chain will evolve.

Mobile Identity subscription includes:

100-page interactive analyst report
Access to 1 million+ country-level data points across 200 markets
Coverage of 800+ mobile operators
Quarterly data updates.
Regional and country-level Mobile Identity market development.
SMS OTP spend decline and Number Verification migration analysis.
5-year forecasts for Number Verification, SIM Swap, KYC Match, Age Verification and Call Forwarding
Pricing model analysis and value-chain implications.

Research Contents

Global Mobile Identity market forecasts covering a 5-year period, including traffic, spend and growth by use case.
Market sizing for Number Verification, SIM Swap, KYC Match, Age Verification and Call Forwarding.
Additional Network APIs to be added over the course of the subscription
Regional and country-level insight into Mobile Identity adoption, coverage and commercial readiness.
Operator and aggregator revenue projections, as well as CAMARA-based revenue projections.
Analysis of SMS OTP migration, Number Verification adoption and the risk of SMS revenue leakage.
Insight into CAMARA, GSMA Open Gateway, Aduna, aggregation models and the role of market-level coverage.
Commercial analysis of pricing models, value-based packaging, subscription pricing, active-user models and outcome-linked approaches.
Enterprise research findings covering fraud prevention, secure onboarding, trusted authentication, KYC, age verification and customer-risk signals.
Strategic implications and action plans for mobile operators, aggregators and the wider Network API ecosystem.
Market data from 2024.

Key Data Included:

Historic and forecast Mobile Identity spend from 2024 to 2030.
Traffic & Spend by use case, including Number Verification, SIM Swap, KYC Match, Age Verification and Call Forwarding.
Traffic & Spend by sector to be added in 2027.
Operator and aggregator revenue by year.
Regional and country-level Mobile Identity market development.
SMS OTP spend decline and Number Verification migration analysis.
Coverage readiness and market-penetration assumptions.
Pricing model analysis and value-chain implications.

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What Our Clients Say…

“Mobilesquared delivers valuable insights and data and is an important contributor to the success of our global market intelligence service”

Joanna Kuligowska, Head of Global Market Intelligence, Haud

“Mobilesquared offers a depth and breadth of data and forecasts on the mobile messaging marketplace that is unrivalled. Their data is now used broadly within Sinch.”

Robert Gerstmann, Chief evangelist & Co-founder, Sinch

“Mobilesquared’s insight into the CPaaS space, and your close links to the key players in it, really helps us to have good information about what is going on in these markets and how to respond.”

Tim Ward, Sales & Marketing VP, XConnect

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FAQs

How does Mobilesquared carry out research into the business messaging market?Tim Marotto2025-01-12T13:49:04+00:00

How does Mobilesquared carry out research into the business messaging market?

We conduct in-depth business messaging market research, interviewing around 300 companies annually across the messaging ecosystem. We also run surveys on key topics and collaborate with mobile operators who share anonymised mobile insight data.

Our work with key trade bodies and industry forums keeps us ahead of developments. Combining diverse source insights with annual findings over the last ten years has led to the Messageverse—a data universe of over 70 million data points that our customers can access freely.

Which countries does Mobilesquared research cover?Tim Marotto2025-01-12T13:45:58+00:00

Mobile Identity Data and Insight

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