How telecom becomes a huge player on the new platform for digital life

Picture this:

Sofie is on her way to a weekend getaway. She opens her telecom provided wallet app - a sleek, secure interface anyone can download, regardless of whether they're a customer or not. Within seconds, she checks into her hotel using a verified credential. She gets an exclusive 5% discount just for using the wallet.

She then books travel insurance with a single tap, no forms to fill out. Later, she finds nearby restaurants with membership perks and reserves a table, all within the same telecom provided app.

It’s a shift from being a traditional connectivity and telecom provider to becoming something beyond, a trusted digital platform for secure interactions even across sectors.

For decades, telecom companies have quietly powered our connected world. They built the networks, managed the infrastructure, and kept the internet humming. But while they’ve been essential, they’ve rarely been at the center of digital innovation. Until now.

Today, the telecom industry faces a crossroad. Core services like data plans and roaming are becoming commoditized. Margins are shrinking. Loyalty is fleeting. And yet - telecom providers hold something no one else does: verified identity, constant presence, and deep infrastructure.

Telecom providers already verify billions of users.Telecom companies gather rich Know your Customer (KYC) data - knowing who their customers are, where they are, and how they connect - but they currently lack the ability to share or analyze that data securely and confidentially to unlock its full business potential. So instead of keeping that data locked inside billing systems, they can now transform it into secure, shareable credentials, powered by the Partisia platform, activating confidential computing and Multi-Party computation (MPC).

Let’s continue with the earlier example to build on the context: Now, Sofie’s data becomes her passport to personalized, seamless experiences, fully under her control. And every time a hotel, insurer, or local business interacts with her through the Digital/Telecom wallet, the telecom company gets paid. Not for selling her data - but for facilitating the verified, privacy-preserving interactions.

This model isn’t unprecedented. In the banking world, we’ve already seen it take shape through what in the financial sector is known and referred to as embedded finance and beyond banking. Banks are starting to offer subscription management, insurance products, and partner deals - all within their banking app. 

They realized the app wasn’t just for transactions. It was a trust hub.

This is possible because Partisia's technology ensures that sensitive personal data is never exposed - not even to the telecom company or for reference banks itself. The data is encrypted, split across multiple nodes, and processed in a way that no single party ever sees the full picture. It’s trust without exposure. Consent without compromise.

Where banks see their customers  a few times a week, telecoms customers are present constantly. Your device is always on, always connected. That opens up possibilities not just for payments or perks, but for real-time, location-based, identity-driven services. Secure digital credentials and confidential computing make all of this possible - seamlessly and privacy-preserving.

The telecom wallet becomes more than a container. It becomes a place where hotels, insurers, ticket vendors, local merchants all plug in, offering deals and services in exchange for access to verified, consented users. Every digital handshake is backed by cryptographic proof, not guesswork. And every partner pays to be part of the network.

Sofie might not be a subscriber today, but the telecom has still won her. And eventually, with the right offer, she might convert - not because of a better data plan, but because the ecosystem is too valuable to leave.

This is the vision: Beyond connectivity. A world where the telecom company is no longer just selling connectivity, but is the foundation and  trust layer of the future digital economy.

With technologies we offer at Partisia, it is just as secure as it is scalable. 

It’s not a pilot. It’s a platform. And the timing has never been better.

Telecom has always connected people.

Now, it can extend beyond traditional connectivity to unlock entirely new business opportunities.