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Market Brief

2026-09-26
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Vonage has partnered with Epic to integrate its Branded Calling technology into Epic's Hello World communications platform, letting healthcare providers display verified names, logos and call reasons on patients' phones before they answer calls.

Competitor moves

Containment is dead: Five takeaways from the AI ROI in Contact Center Summit

Containment is dead: Five takeaways from the AI ROI in Contact Center Summit Every vendor event has a center of gravity, and at theCUBE Research's AI ROI in Contact Center Summit, it wasn't a product. It was a metric this industry is finally ready to abandon.

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AI & Automation

Mavenir And Neysa Launch Sovereign AI Stack For Telecom Operators

The prepackaged stack combines Mavenir's orchestration, agent and token-metering tools with Neysa's AI cloud infrastructure to help operators keep AI costs and data in-region.

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Vancouver's Alebex Ranks 8th In International Speech-To-Text Benchmark

The independent AA-WER Streaming Index placed Alebex's transcription model ahead of speech systems from Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and Amazon.

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UCaaS

Eventide Communications Launches ImpactCX Recording and Intelligence Platform

Platform delivers 100% interaction capture, automated workflows and access to operational insights in UCaaS and CCaaS environments Eventide Communications announced the launch of ImpactCX, its unified communications intelligence platform for contact centers and employee…

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CCaaS

Banco Plata Increases Collections Contact Effectiveness By 10% Through Automation

The Brazilian financial firm used automation to expand contact and negotiation capacity without adding call-center headcount, amid nearly 84 million delinquent consumers tracked by Serasa in August.

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Medallia Expands Multilingual AI In H2 2026 Product Release

The release adds AI-driven analysis in 13+ languages, segment-level auditing and self-service survey tools for contact center and CX teams.

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Mexican Financial Firms Say Human Oversight Must Stay In Automated Customer Decisions

At Finnosummit 2026, Grupo Coppel's retail banking director said institutions must keep human intervention in resolutions where automation could compromise security or customer experience.

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M&A & Funding

Liberty Global taps Sierra AI to support 80M connections

Liberty Global agreed a three-year deal with conversational AI platform Sierra to rollout its technology across the group’s operating companies, as it looks to accelerate the use of AI.

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Channel & MSP

Okta Redesigns Partner Program To Emphasize Services Delivery

The new Okta Partner Accelerator, launching in early 2027, adds distinct partner tracks and incentives and aims to shift the majority of services delivery to partners.

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Verizon's New Channel Chief Lays Out AI, SMB And Convergence Strategy For Partners

John Constantino, three weeks into the role, says partners can boost profitability by cross-selling AI, SMB and wireline offerings across Verizon's portfolio.

Telecom & Regulatory

Brazil Orders Telecom Operators To Block Betting Sites Starting October 6

Provisional Measure 1.394/2026, signed by President Lula, directs Anatel to send blocking orders to ISPs and carriers as part of a nationwide ban on online betting platforms.

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Brazil's Supreme Court Gives Anatel 48 Hours To Address Election-Period Mobile Data Access

Justice Cristiano Zanin is weighing a request from the Green Party and the CNTE teachers' union to require carriers to keep mobile internet access open after data caps run out during the election period.

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Comp watch

UCaaSRingCentral $76.16 (-4.59%); 8x8 $2.30 (+0.88%); Zoom $89.71 (-0.71%)
CCaaSFive9 $35.77 (-2.43%); NICE $112.81 (-0.72%)
PlatformTwilio $275.80 (-7.96%); Cisco $106.70 (-0.25%); Microsoft $516.17 (+3.66%)
IDTIDT Corporation $67.46 (-0.43%)
IndexNasdaq 27,068.72 (+0.48%)
MoversRingCentral -4.6%, Twilio -8.0%, Microsoft +3.7% — figures reflect Friday's close as US markets are closed for the weekend.

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