Vonage Network-Based Fraud Prevention Tools Expand to Canada
- Tim Banting
- 3 hours ago
- 3 min read
Vonage is expanding its security setup by launching its network-based fraud prevention tools in Canada. These tools let developers link directly into live mobile network signals to check who users are and stop hackers from taking over accounts.
The move happens as businesses deal with clever, AI-backed digital scams that easily slip past old security setups. By using direct data from phone carriers instead of text message codes, the system aims to block fraud before it even hits the app.
While launching these features in Canada helps Vonage catch up regionally, it isn't a massive tech breakthrough. Other big names like Infobip have already been selling these exact services all over the world.
What: The Regional Growth of Vonage Network-Based Fraud Prevention
This Canadian launch helps Vonage grow in the crowded communications market, following similar moves in the US and Europe. Big companies are moving away from annoying, user-dependent verification like multi-factor SMS codes. These codes are way too easy for hackers to steal through phishing. Instead, the industry is moving toward "silent" security that checks data directly from the mobile networks behind the scenes.
To make this work, Vonage needs local mobile networks to cooperate. They managed this by partnering with Aduna ((the multi-carrier venture federated by Ericsson to scale CAMARA APIs globally), and EnStream (a joint business run by Canada’s biggest phone networks: Bell, Rogers, and TELUS.) This deal gives Vonage coverage across the country, letting them check data for most Canadian mobile users.
The financial stakes driving this regional push are significant. The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre reported nearly 34,000 fraud cases in 2025, costing $544 million. Local companies, like Ontario's Storage Guardian, are already using these network signals to help handle security emergencies.
Because SIM Swap is a high-priority "stable" API for fraud prevention, major CPaaS vendors (including Infobip, Vonage, Twilio, Sinch, Comviva and others), have adopted it as a core offering. These companies do the heavy lifting by grouping all the different mobile networks together. This means a business only has to plug into one system rather than making deals with hundreds of different phone companies around the world.
Vonage’s arrival in Canada is primarily a necessary catch-up move, as it gains direct access to the major networks: Bell, Rogers, and TELUS, despite rivals like Infobip having signed an official strategic partnership with Aduna to absorb their global telco routing layer into the Infobip's CPaaS early last year.
Mirroring Infobip's approach, Sinch also integrated Aduna as a preferred network routing partner to power its omnichannel Verification API and dedicated anti-fraud toolkits.
The interesting part here is less about the tech itself and more about the wider market. Ericsson is very keen to monetise carrier network APIs, and Canada has been relatively slow to move away from old-school SMS codes. The big question now is whether Canadian banks and large businesses will actually bother to buy into these new "silent" security checks. So, while the APIs could be seen as “old news”, Vonage plugging into the Canadian ecosystem is still a pretty important step, both for the company, and for the region.
Capabilities
SIM Swap Detection: Spotting if someone has recently swapped a user's SIM card info. This stops hackers from taking over accounts during important moments like bank transfers.
Silent Authentication: Verifying a customer’s phone number in the background using their mobile data, so they don't have to wait for a one time text passcode or “OTP”.
Limitations
No Vonage "moat": The underlying network infrastructure (built by EnStream and Aduna) is completely open and available for other CPaaS vendors to offer the same live Canadian SIM swap data through their own services.
Data Session Requirement: Silent authentication requires users to be on their mobile network data, not on regular Wi-Fi.
Signals to Watch
Enterprise Adoption Rates: Will Canadian banks and shops actually ditch text message security entirely for these invisible network checks?
Carrier API Standardisation: How well global phone companies can agree on the same rules for sharing data, especially as Vonage's parent company, Ericsson, pushes to make more money from these network APIs.