[VoiceOps] PSA - RouteTrader (RTX) Risk of Shutdown

[Jared Geiger]

RouteTrader, RTX, was a SaaS platform that larger PTTs used to setup
wholesale prepaid voice customers on. It handled money in customer accounts
and carriers their own accounts. The carriers would brand the portal,
contract with the customer, and the customer would setup SIP trunking to
that RTX realm of servers for that carrier. Essentially a hosted SaaS
switch trading platform. They also supported SMS SMPP binds if the carrier
wanted to implement it.

I believe RTX made their money off of yearly fees to the carriers plus a
per minute cut of the traffic. It just made it easy for carriers to offer a
wholesale prepaid product for smaller customers that didn't have the
business case for the typical postpaid platform.

~Jared

On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 3:18 PM Jawaid Bazyar <jawaid at bazyar.net> wrote:

> What was RTX ? Is the function it performed replaceable?
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 2:07 PM Jared Geiger via VoiceOps <
> voiceops at voiceops.org> wrote:
>
>> And RTX has gone dark. Webpages and SIP proxies are dead for both Arelion
>> and DTICSS.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2024 at 10:19 AM Jared Geiger <compuwizz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I got an email earlier this morning from Deutsch Telekom International
>>> Carrier Services, DTICSS, saying that RouteTrader is at risk of shutdown.
>>> RTX runs the prepaid platform that carriers use to offer prepaid service to
>>> smaller clients.
>>>
>>> The only other carrier that I'm aware of currently using RTX is Arelion
>>> but PCCW, Telstra Global, Telecom Italia Sparkle, and Turk Telekom used to
>>> use the platform in the past.
>>>
>>> DTICSS suggests to use funds ASAP.
>>>
>>> ~Jared
>>>
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