International roaming specialist Comfone has revealed that announces that its Key2roam service community has reached 100 members. Comfone provides roaming services to more than 300 operators in over 125 countries worldwide
Comfones Key2roam hub model enables any operator to establish multiple roaming relationships with networks around the world through a single, standard bilateral roaming agreement with Comfone.
Key2roam is fully compliant with GSM Association standards, and under the agreement with Comfone Key2roam, all elements of roaming, including interconnection, testing, account transfer procedures, roaming management, error handling and fraud processes, are handled for the operator. As a result, Comfone notes, the customers resources are freed from the costly tasks involved in setting up roaming relations, allowing the operator to focus instead on its core business.
Comfone adds that its experience in the roaming market, and its provision of a complete portfolio of roaming services, including signalling, clearing, data, hubbing and convergence services, has enabled the company to offer the leading hub service that it does today, boasting the largest worldwide footprint of any hub roaming solution available to the global mobile operator community.
Key2roam owes much of its success to its first customers, says Comfone CEO, Oscar Derrer. As early adopters, they set a trend for establishing Comfones roaming hub service as the world leader. Comfones vision of outsourced roaming services has now been fully endorsed by the industry and the GSMA, with current market activities focusing heavily on hubbing solutions. We look forward to the continued growth of our Key2roam operator community.
The Key2roam community currently includes some of the leading mobile operator groups as well as operators of all sizes from countries around the world. Comfone is planning to  roll-out a number of new features to its hub service, the first of which will be the integration of an SMS Interworking hub for Key2roam members.