Find the shortcut around your paid route.
Find MAP and SMPP shortcuts that dodge your billable channels. MCM AI reads the traffic, reveals the hidden path and helps you close it.
A grey route is a shortcut.
Traffic reaches your subscribers, but takes a path that avoids the channel you charge for.
The paid channel
The official route your traffic is meant to take, where every call or message is billed to the party sending it.
The shortcut
A side path that reaches the same subscriber without passing through the paid channel. The message arrives, but nobody pays you for the trip.
The disguise
International traffic can arrive looking like a local call or text. On the surface nothing seems wrong, which is why it can go unnoticed.
Two roads around the toll.
Shortcuts do not all look alike. Grey route detection watches both of these paths for traffic that dodges your billable channels.
A signalling path inside the network. A shortcut here moves traffic around the channel you bill on.
A messaging connection between systems. A shortcut here lets messages travel without using your billable route.
Quiet traffic, loud cost.
Revenue walks past
Traffic that should earn on your paid channels travels for free, so income that belongs to you goes elsewhere.
Your picture is wrong
If part of your traffic is invisible, your numbers understate what your network really carries.
It brings company
Hidden routes are often shared with other abuse. Closing one makes the network harder to misuse.
The pattern gives the path away.
No fixed list is needed. MCM AI judges traffic by how it behaves, then compares it with the route it claims to be using.
- 01
Traffic is observed
MCM AI watches the calls and messages crossing your network, along with the routes they take.
- 02
Patterns are compared
Route, timing and content are set side by side. Traffic that does not fit the route it claims stands out.
- 03
A shortcut is named
The hidden path is flagged as a suspected grey route, ready for your team to review.
- 04
The route is closed
Once bypass is confirmed, the route is shut and the traffic can move to a paid path.
Route mismatch
The path a message took does not match the path it should have taken.
Local masking
International traffic dressed up as a local call or text.
Timing and content
The rhythm and wording of the traffic point to a source you do not bill.
From a hidden path to a paid one.
Finding the shortcut is the start. The aim is for the same traffic to travel where it earns.
See Revenue Recovery- 01
Review the flag
Look at the suspected route in the Command Center and confirm what it is carrying.
- 02
Close the route
Network Shield blocks the confirmed bypass so nothing slips around the paid route.
- 03
Move the traffic
Business traffic that was using the shortcut can be steered onto a paid path and start earning.
- Gateway Alpha to Core EastPaid route
- Unlisted link to Core EastUnder review
- Relay Delta to Core WestClosed
Illustrative, fictional routes. Not real traffic.
For the teams that guard the revenue.
Grey routes cost most where the traffic is billed, so the people who own that income get the most from seeing them.
Mobile operators
See which paths around your paid channels exist on your own network, and win back the income they take.
Carriers and wholesale
Spot grey voice routes that skip your paid interconnect, then shut them down.
Revenue assurance teams
Get clear cases to review, and watch closed routes send traffic back to the channels that pay.
One route in a wider map.
Turn it into billable messaging
Once a shortcut is closed, A2P revenue recovery shows how that traffic can earn on a paid channel.
See A2P revenue recoveryFollow the cases
Suspected routes and their status appear in the Command Center, so your team can see what needs a decision.
See the Command CenterRatings from behaviour
The Threat Engine rates traffic by how it behaves, adding context around the routes you investigate.
See the Threat EngineWhat pairs with grey route detection.
- Grey route detection
- A2P revenue recovery
- SIM farm tracking