# GSMA Open Gateway **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/open-gateway/ **Website:** https://www.gsma.com/ **APIs profiled:** 22 GSMA Open Gateway is the mobile industry's operator-commitment and certification layer for network APIs, run by the GSM Association from its London headquarters in the United Kingdom. Launched at MWC Barcelona on 27 February 2023 with 21 operator groups and eight universal network APIs, it is the go-to-market wrapper around CAMARA, the Linux Foundation-hosted Telco Global API Alliance that actually authors the OpenAPI definitions. GSMA sits above the value chain rather than in it: it signs operators and channel partners to a memorandum of understanding, certifies implementations against CAMARA service APIs and TM Forum Operate APIs, and publishes which certified APIs are live in which markets. Its API posture is honestly non-existent as a first-party surface. GSMA operates no callable API, publishes no OpenAPI under its own name, and runs no self-serve developer portal with keys or a sandbox. open-gateway.gsma.com is a filterable directory of certified deployments, and every automated probe of it and of gsma.com returned an HTTP 403 Cloudflare bot challenge. The specifications are open on GitHub under camaraproject and tmforum-apis; the endpoints belong to operators; and developers reach them through aggregators and channel partners such as Aduna, Vonage, Infobip, Sinch, Twilio, Nokia, AWS and Bridge Alliance rather than through the GSMA. Per the GSMA's own Q1 2026 Open Gateway update, 81 operator groups and 61 channel partners covering 292 networks and about 80 percent of global mobile connections have signed, with 237 certified API assets drawn from 33 CAMARA tagged released APIs and 280 API instances commercially launched across 85 networks in 50 markets. ## Kin Score — 52.0 / 100 (developing) Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 52.0). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 83.3 | | Contract Quality | 65.5 | | Governance | 11.5 | | Operational Transparency | 47.4 | | Developer Ergonomics | 64.7 | | Commercial Clarity | 21.1 | Regulatory layer — **Telecommunications**: 66.7 (matched via tags). ## Agent readiness — 53.4 (agent-ready) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | MCP Server | yes | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | documented | | OpenAPI Examples | verified | | Rate Limit Signal | no | | Event Surface Described | derived | | Agent Skills | derived | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | yes | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | ## APIs (22) - **CAMARA Number Verification API** — CAMARA Number Verification 2.1.0 as certified under GSMA Open Gateway. Verifies that the phone number claimed by a user matches the number of the SIM on the network connection, ... - **CAMARA SIM Swap API** — CAMARA SIM Swap 2.1.0 as certified under GSMA Open Gateway. Checks whether the SIM associated with a mobile phone number has been swapped within a given period, and retrieves th... - **CAMARA Device Swap API** — CAMARA Device Swap 1.0.0 as certified under GSMA Open Gateway. Reports whether the device attached to a mobile subscription has changed within a supplied period and retrieves th... - **CAMARA Call Forwarding Signal API** — CAMARA Call Forwarding Signal 0.4.0 as certified under GSMA Open Gateway. Exposes whether unconditional or conditional call forwarding is active on a subscriber line, a signal u... - **CAMARA Know Your Customer Match API** — CAMARA Know Your Customer Match 0.4.0 as certified under GSMA Open Gateway. Compares customer-supplied identity attributes (name, address, birthdate, identity document, email) a... - **CAMARA Know Your Customer Age Verification API** — CAMARA Know Your Customer Age Verification 0.2.1 as certified under GSMA Open Gateway. Answers whether the subscriber behind a phone number is over a given age threshold using o... - **CAMARA KYC Tenure API** — CAMARA KYC Tenure 0.2.0 as certified under GSMA Open Gateway. Confirms whether a mobile subscription has been active with the operator for at least a requested duration, a low-f... - **CAMARA One Time Password SMS API** — CAMARA One Time Password SMS 1.1.1 as certified under GSMA Open Gateway. Sends a one-time password by SMS to a subscriber's phone number and validates the code the user returns,... - **CAMARA Quality on Demand API** — CAMARA Quality-On-Demand 1.1.0 as certified under GSMA Open Gateway. Creates, reads, extends and deletes temporary sessions that raise the network quality of service for a speci... - **CAMARA QoS Profiles API** — CAMARA QoS Profiles 1.1.0 as certified under GSMA Open Gateway. Lists the quality-of-service profiles an operator makes available and retrieves a single profile by name, so a de... - **CAMARA Device Reachability Status API** — CAMARA Device Reachability Status 1.1.0 as certified under GSMA Open Gateway. Returns whether a device is currently reachable on the network and by which means (SMS, data), the ... - **CAMARA Device Reachability Status Subscriptions API** — CAMARA Device Reachability Status Subscriptions 0.8.0 as certified under GSMA Open Gateway. Creates and manages event subscriptions that push CloudEvents notifications to a cons... - **CAMARA Device Identifier API** — CAMARA Device Identifier 0.3.0 as certified under GSMA Open Gateway. Retrieves the identifier, type and pseudonymous identifier of the device a subscription is currently using, ... - **CAMARA Device Roaming Status API** — CAMARA Device Roaming Status 1.0.0 as certified under GSMA Open Gateway. Reports whether a device is roaming and, where available, the country it is roaming in, used for travel-... - **CAMARA Connected Network Type API** — CAMARA Connected Network Type 0.1.0 as certified under GSMA Open Gateway. Returns the access technology a device is currently attached to (for example 4G or 5G standalone), lett... - **CAMARA Population Density Data API** — CAMARA Population Density Data 0.3.0 as certified under GSMA Open Gateway. Returns aggregated, anonymised estimates of how many devices are present in a requested geographic are... - **CAMARA Device Location Retrieval API** — CAMARA Device Location Retrieval 0.5.0 as certified under GSMA Open Gateway. Returns the network-derived location of a device as a circle or polygon with an accuracy indication,... - **CAMARA Device Location Verification API** — CAMARA Device Location Verification 3.0.0 as certified under GSMA Open Gateway. Verifies whether a device is inside, outside or partly within a supplied area rather than returni... - **CAMARA Simple Edge Discovery API** — CAMARA Simple Edge Discovery 2.0.1 as certified under GSMA Open Gateway. Returns the closest MEC (multi-access edge computing) platform to a given device so that an application ... - **CAMARA Carrier Billing API** — CAMARA Carrier Billing 0.5.0 as certified under GSMA Open Gateway. Creates and manages direct carrier-billing payments charged to a subscriber's mobile account, including paymen... - **CAMARA Home Devices QoD API** — CAMARA Home Devices QoD 0.4.0 as certified under GSMA Open Gateway. Requests prioritised quality of service for a device on a fixed broadband home network, extending Quality on ... - **TM Forum TMF931 Open Gateway Onboarding and Ordering API** — TM Forum TMF931 Open Gateway Operate API - Onboarding and Ordering 5.2.1, the GSMA-defined 'Operate API' that channel partners and aggregators use to onboard against an operator... ## MCP servers (1) - **open-gateway-mcp.yml** ## Agentic access (1) - **Open Gateway Agentic Access** — 70 operations · 52 acting ## Security (3) - **Open Gateway Authentication** — http/openIdConnect · 2 schemes - **Open Gateway Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC - **Open Gateway Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published ## Tags Telecommunications, United Kingdom, Network APIs, CAMARA, Open Gateway, Standards, Mobile Network Operator, Identity Verification, SIM Swap, Quality on Demand, 5G, Certification, Trade Association, TM Forum --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/open-gateway/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.