Bouygues Telecom is turning its mobile network into a fraud-fighting tool for businesses, partnering with Aduna to sell standardized network APIs that can verify users and flag account-takeover risk. Aduna is the joint venture founded by Ericsson and a group of the world’s largest telecom operators, and the French carrier says joining it lets companies tap network signals through a single integration rather than building separate connections to each operator.
The approach leans on the GSMA’s CAMARA standard, an open-source effort to give developers common, interoperable network APIs. By exposing its network through that framework, Bouygues Telecom says a business can query its capabilities to help secure sensitive customer journeys, with the operator returning simple true-or-false answers drawn from data about the SIM card, the network identity, and the device in use. The processing happens inside Bouygues Telecom’s own secure infrastructure, which the company says keeps customers’ personal data protected.
Three services are available at launch. A Know Your Customer Match API supports identity verification during account creation; a SIM Swap Check flags whether a user’s SIM has been changed recently, a common signal of fraud during a bank transfer or online purchase; and a Number Verification API authenticates a user’s mobile number in the background. From the end of the year, the company plans an enhanced version of that number check designed to gradually replace one-time-code SMS messages. Bouygues Telecom says it already supports more than 40 companies in banking, insurance, e-commerce, and similar sectors, and that its API services logged more than five million calls in 2025.
The move adds a major French carrier to a wave of operators packaging network data as identity infrastructure, following efforts such as a unified API push by French operators to combat online fraud and Maxis launching network-based mobile identity authentication in Malaysia.
“As fraud becomes increasingly sophisticated, businesses need more reliable ways to verify identities and protect their digital interactions,” said Anthony Bartolo, CEO of Aduna. Chrystel Abadie Truchet, Bouygues Telecom’s deputy managing director for strategy, development and communication, said the operator wants to use the reliability of its network data to protect consumers across finance, e-commerce, and social media.
Sources: Aduna
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By the ID Tech Editorial Team
