Who is Syniverse, anyway?

One of the world’s largest SS7 hubs was hacked. What does that mean?

David Allen Burgess
Telecom Experts
Published in
4 min readOct 5, 2021

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People outside of the telecom industry have probably never heard of Syniverse, even though they probably use the service every day. Many press reports are describing Syniverse as an “SMS-handling company”, but what they do is really much bigger than that, the telecom equivalent of the world’s largest…

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David Allen Burgess
Telecom Experts

I have worked in telecom since 1998, in both SIGINT and in commercial equipment. I also do expert work in legal cases, see http://telecom-expert.com.