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Bandwidth layers number-intelligence products onto its PSTN-replacement push

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◆Current state
Bandwidth is executing on two fronts: methodically completing full PSTN-replacement coverage country by country (Peru, South Africa, each adding emergency and portability services), and building data products on top of the phone number — Number Reputation Management and the new Dynamic Number Intelligence package. Infra modernization, like the Subscriptions v2 event-notification rebuild, rounds out the picture.
◆Where it's heading
The direction is from connectivity carrier to intelligence layer: owning not just the route but the data about each number — carrier, activation status, reputation. Geographic expansion and the number-data suite reinforce each other, since both deepen Bandwidth's position as a global number-of-record provider.
◆Prediction
Expect more PSTN-replacement country launches and continued buildout of the DNI/NRM data suite, likely folding more real-time number signals into the existing Lookup and messaging APIs.

◆Recent moves

  1. 8d ago

    Introducing Subscriptions v2!

    A v2 rebuild of Bandwidth's event-notification system adds more delivery options and stronger security — infra modernization that underpins the real-time signals its number-data products increasingly depend on.

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  2. 1mo ago

    PSTN Replacement Coverage in South Africa

    Adding emergency services completes full PSTN-replacement coverage in South Africa, the latest country in Bandwidth's methodical region-by-region march to be a complete number-of-record provider.

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  3. 1mo ago

    Introducing Dynamic Number Intelligence

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    Dynamic Number Intelligence folds carrier assignment, deactivation reports, and live activation status into the Lookup API and messaging webhooks at a flat rate — the clearest sign yet that Bandwidth is productizing the data around the number, not just the connectivity.

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  4. 4mo ago

    Number Reputation Management

    Number Reputation Management expands spam-label monitoring and remediation across a broader range of numbers — an earlier piece of the number-intelligence suite that DNI now extends.

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  5. 4mo ago

    PSTN Replacement Coverage in Peru

    Peru gains national/international outbound, portability, and emergency services — another full PSTN-replacement market following the same country-by-country expansion pattern as South Africa.

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  6. 4mo ago

    Campaign Verify Token now available

    An optional cvToken field added to the Toll-Free Verification endpoints for political-campaign verification — a narrow API addition most customers won't touch.

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