The 2019 INCOMPAS Show, Day 2

WWW. INCOMPAS .ORG « 3 » www.bekabusinessmedia.com THE INCOMPAS SHOW Martin Vilaboy Editor-in-Chief martin@bekabusinessmedia.com Gerald Baldino Contributing Editor gerald@bekabusinessmedia.com Percy Zamora Art Director percy@bekabusinessmedia.com Mitch Beyer Digital Marketing Manager mitch@bekabusinessmedia.com Berge Kaprelian Group Publisher berge@bekabusinessmedia.com (480) 503-0770 Anthony Graffeo Publisher anthony@bekabusinessmedia.com (203) 304-8547 INCOMPAS Announces 2020 Dates for Policy Summit and Annual Show I NCOMPAS yesterday announced the 2020 schedule for its two signature annual events: The INCOMPAS Policy Summit and The NCOMPAS Show. Each spring, The INCOMPAS Policy Summit brings together business executives with policy and legislative leaders from the FCC and Capitol Hill for a day of thought leadership and interactive discussions on current issues and the future landscape for the communications and technology industries. The 2020 edition of the Policy Summit will take place on Tuesday, March 3, in Washington, D.C. The INCOMPAS Show, meanwhile, returns to Las Vegas November 2 – 4, 2020, this time at The Cosmopolitan, with the exhibit hall, meeting rooms and educational sessions all conveniently located within steps of each other. “INCOMPAS is proud to continue its decades long tradition of supporting its members and the communications sector by advocating for pro-competitive, pro- consumer policies and driving innova- tion and the economy by providing an environment where companies can meet and seal valuable business deals,” said INCOMPAS CEO Chip Pickering. “We look forward to being able to bring together industry visionaries, business leaders, policy experts and decision makers together during both the Policy Summit and INCOMPAS Show in 2020.” For information about sponsoring or partici- pating in The 2020 Policy Summit, contact Julia Strow at jstrow@incompas.org. To exhibit, sponsor or secure meeting space for 2020 in Las Vegas, email Sam Edidin at sedidin@incompas.org or Rita DiCuccio at rdicuccio@incompas.org. Sponsors, exhibitors and meeting room hosts at The 2019 INCOMPAS Show this week will have the opportunity to receive a 10 percent discount off 2020 rates if they solidify their participation by February 28, 2020. p Bandwidth Enhances Number Porting Experience E nterprise CPaaS company Bandwidth announced new enhancements to its market-leading phone number porting experience. The enhancements stand to revo- lutionize the process of moving phone numbers from carrier to carrier, speeding time to market for Bandwidth’s 1,400-plus enterprise customers and significantly reducing support tickets in the process, said the company. Bandwidth’s communications platform serves a varied audience, which includes software plat- form owners, VoIP professionals and enterprise IT specialists – all of which will uniquely benefit from the revamped porting experience. Software product owners now will be able to seamlessly integrate with Bandwidth’s porting API, allowing their customers to programmatically submit up to 20,000 numbers on-demand to Bandwidth’s platform as they get up and running. VoIP innova- tors who choose Bandwidth for their core network capabilities will be able to check portability for tens of thousands of numbers at once and coor- dinate port dates and times from multiple carriers, instead of individually project managing each one. Meanwhile, the updates will ease migration frustra- tions for enterprise IT professionals who may be migrating SIP services to a cloud communications platform. Porting pains are often the largest hassle and biggest time commitment in these migrations. Bandwidth’s updates will give IT professionals complete control of the porting process, allowing them to migrate individual offices, departments or entire campuses with ease and predictability. “Porting phone numbers is a critical part of the onboarding experience for many of our customers,” said Rob Scheible, Bandwidth’s senior director of product management for its platform and phone numbers portfolio. “We’ve been removing hurdles from the porting process for over a decade, and we’re especially excited to see how quickly our customers will be able to move now – whether they’re bringing on thou- sands of new customers or migrating their own offices to a new cloud platform.” Some of Bandwidth’s customers, such as Tamara Foster and Bethanie King from LogMeIn, are porting phone numbers everyday as they bring in new customers to their platform. The new porting experi- ence is especially helpful for these “power-porters,” increasing the amount of numbers customers can submit in one single order, reducing rejected ports and putting more control directly in their hands. “We’ve used five different providers to obtain phone numbers, and Bandwidth’s porting experi- ence is head and shoulders above the rest,” said Foster. “The combination of features, API func- tionality and especially their commitment to the overall experience makes them a true partner to us. No one else in the industry is innovating in this area like they are.” p