Telecom API Market Research: the market was valued at US$ 36,842 million in 2024 and is forecast to reach US$ 85,079 million by 2031

The global Telecom API market is entering a decisive growth phase as operators, hyperscalers, and CPaaS providers align around standardized, cross-operator network APIs. According to the QYResearch report "Telecom API - Global Market Share and Ranking, Overall Sales and Demand Forecast 2025-2031," the market was valued at US$ 36,842 million in 2024 and is forecast to reach US$ 85,079 million by 2031, reflecting a 12.7% CAGR from 2025 to 2031. This growth is underpinned by commercial launches in 2024-2025 of network-grade identity and security APIs, the convergence of CPaaS with mobile network capabilities, and maturing operator marketplaces that simplify developer onboarding and procurement.

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Leading Companies

Verizon
AT&T
China Mobile
Deutsche Telekom AG
SoftBank
China Telecom
Telefónica
Vodafone
América Móvil
Orange
au by KDDI
China Unicom
NTT DOCOMO
SK Telecom
Bharti Airtel Limited
LG Uplus

Applications

Enterprise
Government
Other

Classification

SMS, MMS, and RCS API
WebRTC API
Payment API
Maps and Location API
Identity Management API
Voice API
Other

Latest Data

Market size 2024: US$ 36,842 million
Forecasted market size 2031: US$ 85,079 million
CAGR 2025-2031: 12.7%
Forecast units: USD million, value basis
Coverage: revenue and volume forecast, company share and competitive landscape, growth drivers and risks, policy environment
Segmentation: by region and country, by type, by application
Chapters: scope and dynamics, competitive landscape, segmentation by type and application, regional and country revenue, company profiles, industry chain, conclusion

2024-2025 News and Company Updates

Standardized network APIs shift from pilots to production. In 2024, leading European carriers coordinated national availability of Number Verification and SIM Swap APIs to harden login and onboarding flows against account takeover. In 2025, United States carriers advanced a similar, standardized approach to bring the same capabilities to developers nationwide. These coordinated, multi-operator launches convert what used to be bespoke integrations into simple, consistent calls available through a single interface, removing the fragmentation barrier that slowed early adoption.

Operator marketplaces and go-to-market accelerate. AT&T launched a Network API Platform in early 2024 and expanded coverage in 2025 through ecosystem partners. Verizon introduced an API Marketplace with distribution that includes direct, aggregator, and hyperscaler channels. Vodafone broadened an Open Gateway-aligned developer marketplace with self-serve testing and standardized onboarding. The pattern is consistent: clean documentation, one-click trials, standardized contracts, and transparent pricing.

Global aggregation becomes a revenue engine. The formation of a global aggregation venture in late 2024, joined by major operators across North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia, created a roaming-like commercial model for APIs. Through 2025, partnerships with CPaaS providers and listings on cloud marketplaces dramatically widened reach. For developers, this collapses procurement complexity; for operators, it converts network capabilities into repeatable products with predictable monetization.

Beyond anti-fraud, portfolios widen. 2025 demos and early commercial offers showcase location verification, device status and roaming indicators, quality-on-demand for latency-sensitive workloads, and edge-aware routing. Drone-ecosystem data APIs, including population density and dynamic airspace connectivity indicators, advanced from beta to initial commercial pilots in selected markets. These capabilities open spend in fintech, on-demand logistics, industrial IoT, and real-time media.

CPaaS convergence accelerates passwordless and adaptive verification. CPaaS providers are integrating operator signals into verification stacks to deliver passwordless onboarding, silent number checks, and AI-assisted fraud controls. This reduces one-time-password fatigue and mitigates phishing and SIM-swap fraud, driving higher conversion and lower abandonment at account creation and checkout.

Five Product Spotlights from Leading Operators

AT&T - Network API Platform
• Launch window: initial availability in 2024, expanded in 2025
• Core capabilities: Number Verification, SIM Swap, additional identity and device-centric APIs aligned to CAMARA standards
• Distribution: direct via AT&T's platform and through aggregator and cloud marketplace partners
• Notable metrics and outcomes: reduction of OTP friction and measurable drop in account takeover during pilots for fintech and marketplace apps, with integration cycles compressed from months to weeks due to standardized onboarding

Verizon - API Marketplace
• Launch window: 2024, with 2025 expansions
• Core capabilities: identity and fraud signals including Number Verification and SIM Swap, portfolio extensions toward QoS and edge-aware routing in developer preview
• Distribution: first-party marketplace plus aggregators and hyperscalers for broad developer reach
• Notable metrics and outcomes: increased developer addressability across national footprint, streamlined contracting through marketplace procurement, and early PoCs showing lower false positive rates in risk scoring when network signals are combined with app telemetry

Vodafone - Open Gateway Developer Marketplace
• Launch window: 2024, with expanded catalog in 2025
• Core capabilities: CAMARA-compliant network APIs and TM Forum-standardized onboarding and ordering flows for partners
• Distribution: self-serve developer portal with test and production environments, multi-operator alignment within Open Gateway markets
• Notable metrics and outcomes: faster partner activation, fewer bespoke integrations, and cross-market reuse of the same code paths when customers expand internationally

Deutsche Telekom - Multi-Operator Number Verify and SIM Swap in Germany
• Launch window: commercial in 2024 across major German networks, with scaling adoption through 2025
• Core capabilities: real-time number possession checks and SIM change telemetry for high-risk flows like KYC and payout
• Distribution: standardized interface spanning multiple German carriers to deliver national, carrier-grade coverage via a single integration
• Notable metrics and outcomes: higher pass rates for trusted device checks, reduced manual review queues, and shorter onboarding times for financial services customers

Telefónica - Open Gateway Portfolio in Spain, Germany, and Latin America
• Launch window: 2024 deployments in Spain and Germany, 2025 pre-launch activities in selected Latin American markets
• Core capabilities: Number Verification, SIM Swap, location verification, device roaming status, quality-oriented home and mobile APIs, and drone-ecosystem data services progressing from beta to pilots
• Distribution: developer portal with Open Gateway alignment and cross-operator coordination for multi-market reuse
• Notable metrics and outcomes: broader developer coverage in Iberia and DACH, faster cross-border rollouts using a consistent API surface, and early drone pilots achieving improved flight planning compliance

Downstream Customers

Uber
Netflix
Airbnb
Lyft
Deliveroo
Shopify
Rappi
Grab
DoorDash
Revolut
Klarna
Duolingo
Reddit
HelloFresh
Octopus Energy

Market Trend

Security-first network APIs reach scale
2025 marks a tipping point for mobile identity. Number Verification and SIM Swap APIs matured from isolated pilots into standardized, national, multi-operator products. Fintech, e-commerce marketplaces, mobility, and gaming teams now embed these checks directly into risk decisioning to suppress account takeover and synthetic identity fraud. The impact shows up as lower OTP-related abandonment, higher verified sign-up rates, and fewer escalations to manual review.

Aggregation unlocks global reach and consistent SLAs
A roaming-like commercial model for APIs, with a single contract and unified developer experience across operators, converts patchwork coverage into a coherent product. This lowers integration cost, increases developer addressability, and enables consistent service-level guarantees. In 2025, aggregator distribution through cloud marketplaces further reduces procurement friction, moving network APIs into the same purchasing workflows enterprises already use for SaaS and infrastructure.

From fraud to performance, location, and edge
After identity, the next adoption wave emphasizes performance and context. Quality-on-demand lets developers request predictable latency and jitter for real-time media, telemedicine, and gaming sessions. Device status and roaming indicators sharpen fraud detection and improve service personalization. Location verification supports compliant, consent-based proofs for regulated sectors and age-restricted services. Edge-aware routing minimizes round-trip time by steering traffic to the closest compute, particularly beneficial for XR, industrial inspection, and connected robotics.

CPaaS and network APIs converge
CPaaS vendors increasingly orchestrate multiple verification methods and dynamically select the best path per user and transaction. Network signals complement SMS, voice, push, and email by adding deterministic checks tied to the SIM and network. The result is passwordless onboarding and step-up authentication with materially improved user experience and conversion. For enterprises, blended approaches reduce costs associated with SMS fraud and repeated OTP attempts while raising security baselines.

Developer experience becomes a competitive moat
In 2025, winning platforms share a pattern: rich documentation, quickstart code samples, sandbox environments that mirror production, observable usage and spend in dashboards, and transparent rate limits and quotas. Standardized onboarding APIs and catalogs reduce internal operator variance, so developers can ship once and scale across markets. The platforms that minimize cognitive load gain disproportionate mindshare and wallet share.

Policy, privacy, and consent governance codified in product
As network signals become part of high-stakes identity decisions, privacy, consent, and data minimization are increasingly enforced at the API layer. Granular consent management, auditable purpose limitation, and data retention controls become out-of-the-box features. Markets with stricter privacy regimes adopt explicit consent flows, while APIs provide standardized response fields that help compliance teams document lawful bases for processing.

Pricing models evolve with measurable outcomes
Telecom APIs are shifting from pure usage billing toward value-tied tiers that reflect measurable outcomes, such as verified sign-ups or fraud prevented. For performance and edge APIs, credits bundle network and compute guarantees. Enterprises increasingly demand consolidated invoices across operators and regions, pushing vendors to harmonize billing and provide predictive spend analytics.

Verticalization and solution bundles
Segment-specific bundles emerge in 2025. Fintech kits combine Number Verification, SIM Swap, and device signals with prebuilt decisioning templates. Logistics kits add location verification and roaming indicators optimized for courier workflows. Media and gaming kits emphasize QoD and edge routing. This vertical packaging shortens time to value and reduces the need for customers to build their own orchestration.

Regional dynamics
North America and Europe lead in standardized identity APIs due to large multi-operator launches. Asia Pacific shows fast adoption in performance-sensitive services and super-apps, with strong interest from Japan and South Korea in edge-aware capabilities. Latin America demonstrates rapid CPaaS-led adoption for verification as regional marketplaces scale cross-border.

Ecosystem outlook
By 2031, Telecom APIs mature into a persistent layer of trust, performance, and context beneath digital services. The path from 2025 onward is defined by more operators joining standardized catalogs, deeper CPaaS and cloud integration, and enterprise procurement practices that treat network APIs like any other cloud service. As the addressable developer base expands, the market's growth trajectory toward US$ 85,079 million becomes anchored not just in 5G monetization, but in measurable improvements to user conversion, fraud loss ratios, and app performance.

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