The mobile industry has reached a rare moment of alignment. As of mid-2026, the GSMA Open Gateway initiative has moved from a visionary framework to a commercial powerhouse, with over 60 channel partners covering 80% of global mobile connections. The CAMARA standards have successfully turned complex telco capabilities into programmable APIs for number verification, fraud prevention, and KYC.
But for the developers in the trenches, a “standardized API” doesn’t automatically mean a “seamless integration.”
While the industry has solved the standard, it hasn’t yet solved the adoption. There is a massive execution gap between having access to a carrier API and delivering a sub-2-second, 100% reliable authentication experience across 150+ different mobile network operators (MNOs).
Today, IPification is trying to close that gap by open-sourcing the first Adaptive Authentication SDK fully compatible with CAMARA.
The “Plug-and-Play” Myth of Network APIs
The promise of Open Gateway is simple: a single API to verify any phone number, alongside fraud prevention and KYC APIs. The reality is more complex. Even with standardized CAMARA APIs, developers still face fragmented backend systems, varying regulatory constraints across markets, and inconsistent onboarding flows.
Developers need an outcome: a verified user phone number. They want to avoid partnering with multiple aggregators to ensure international coverage. They do not want to spend time measuring conversion rates and fraud metrics.
Developers need a platform-agnostic solution that enables programmable user authentication flows. One that has global reach and can solve fundamental issues stemming from carrier network complexity.
The primary use case for Open Gateway adoption is mobile phone authentication leveraging a phone number as one of the most used user “identities”. There are multiple API channels for phone authentication to work properly, but they vary from network to network. With the Adaptive Authentication SDK, developers do not have to deal with all that complexity.
The Adaptive SDK: Beyond Simple API Calls
IPification’s Open Source SDK (available for Android and iOS) is a configurable decision engine designed to even handle the “edge cases” that can break mobile authentication. The idea is simple: removing the complexity of the carrier network authentication flow logic and making it easily programmable using multi-channel fallback and other built-in options. The SDK is also a first step for the adoption of additional signals and telco intelligence.
The Fallback Waterfall
The SDK runs a real-time decision loop, probing network conditions and carrier availability. If the primary Number Verify API channel isn’t available, it can route the attempt to the best available fallback based on your custom logic.
Intelligent Network Forcing
One of the biggest hurdles for silent authentication is Wi-Fi. Our SDK solves this by leveraging SIM-based authentication when available, or by forcing a cellular data connection for the specific authentication request, while keeping the user on Wi-Fi for everything else. The user never notices a flicker in their connection, and the phone number match (or share) succeeds in under two seconds.
Dual-Stack (IPv4/IPv6) Handling
As carriers migrate to IPv6, many authentication attempts fail because the SDK and the carrier are “speaking” different IP versions. Our SDK relies on network-level logic to route the request through the correct stack, ensuring the carrier sees the exact IP address required for a successful match.
Zero-Tap User Experience
By supporting phone number pre-population via SIM or Google Hint in the Android OS, we remove the need for users to manually enter their numbers. This is a conversion tool that eliminates the “fat-finger” errors that kill onboarding flows.
Why Open Source? The Trust Factor in Phone Verification
For fintechs, banks, and high-security enterprises, “trust us” isn’t a valid security policy. By open-sourcing our Adaptive SDK, IPification is providing a level of transparency that closed-box solutions cannot match.
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Auditability: Security teams can inspect the code to ensure data privacy and regulatory compliance.
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Developer Autonomy: Developers can see exactly how the fallback based on the configured channel order interacts with their app’s lifecycle.
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Standardization: It reinforces the CAMARA mission by providing a transparent, community-vetted way to interact with GSMA Open Gateway APIs.
Global Reach, Local Precision
IPification currently reaches a population of 4.9 billion across 40 live markets and 20 deploying markets. From the United States and the UK to India, China, Indonesia and Brazil, we provide a single point of entry to the world’s mobile networks, enabling silent phone number verification, fraud prevention and KYC intelligence solutions.
The goal of the Open Gateway was to make the network a platform. The goal of the IPification Adaptive SDK is to make that platform accessible to every developer, on every device, without the integration headaches.
Ready to move into the age of Adaptive Authentication?
– Explore the code: Android SDK | iOS SDK
– Download Adaptive Authentication SDK PDF document
– Check Coverage: Contact our team to see carrier availability in your target markets.
