Release Notes

Effective December 6, 2024, customers with the Premium Plus or Premium customer success plans can now access Messaging Health Alerts via the Insights page of the Bandwidth App. 

This powerful addition empowers you to proactively monitor your messaging metrics, ensuring you stay informed and in control of your communications. You can also configure your alerts based on the specific health metrics that matter most to your messaging performance. For more information on these new alerts, check out our support article.

We are excited to announce that we now offer support for dialing the following additional N11 services:

• 211 – Community Information and Referral Services
• 311 – Non-Emergency Police and Other Governmental Services
• 511 – Traffic and Transportation Information (US) & Provision of Weather and Traveler Information Services (Canada)

For a full list of supported N11s, check out our support article.

Effective March 3, 2025, the Bandwidth App is using stricter validation on URLs provided for notification callback subscriptions. Invalid URLs will no longer be allowed, increasing the security between the Bandwidth App and customer applications and reducing the risk of attacks where certificates are faked.Please use a secure HTTPS (SSL/TLS secure) URL with a valid certificate moving forward. For more information, check out this Announcement.

Effective October 3, 2024, you can now delay a port activation in the Bandwidth App for off-net Lumen orders, just as you can for on-net orders. If your end-user is not ready at the scheduled time, you can delay orders up to 24 hours.

Effective August 28, 2024, a new “Region” drop down has been added to the Voice Insights menu. You are now able to select a data origin of the US or EU. 

By default, the drop down will display US, which populates all detail records originating in the US and Canada on the Voice Insights pages. When you select EU, you will see all of your data originating from outside of the US and Canada, most commonly European countries.

Please note, API Users will need to insert a region parameter: eu into API Calls to return EU. API calls without this EU parameter will default to US Data. For more information on Voice Insights, check out our support articles.

Effective July 2, 2024, we have added the ability to search for a specific campaign to our Campaigns page. 

Instead of manually clicking through pages to locate information about a specific campaign, you just need to enter the campaign’s ID into the search bar, and you will be able to find its status.

We have built a new Account Selection page in the Bandwidth App portal for customers who have access to more than one account.

On this page, you can see a list of all of your accounts along with additional information, including links to and the amount of locations, sub-accounts, and telephone numbers. You will also have the ability to navigate directly to these most-used pages. 

The search function retains the same functionality of being able to search by Account name or ID.

You can now download a messaging billing detail records report, which includes message charges and surcharges, in Messaging Insights. 

We have added new location, subaccount, and campaign ID filters, and enhanced the report so that large data sets will automatically break down into multiple files (or you can select to download separate files for subaccount or location). For more information, check out our support article.

Bandwidth is pleased to announce a new Messaging Health Monitoring page in Messaging Insights. This page allows for enhanced visibility to health metrics for traffic in US messaging channels. 

You can see the status of three key metrics: 10DLC registration, carrier rejections, and internal rejections at a glance, or view a breakdown of these metrics to determine where to make changes to improve the overall health of your messaging traffic, including the ability to view the exact numbers associated with any unregistered or blocked traffic.For more information on messaging health metrics, check out our support article.

Bandwidth is pleased to announce enhancements to our off-net port-ins including support for up to 600 telephone numbers (TNs) in an automated port and the removal of restrictions on supplements. For more details, check out our support article.

Effective March 14, 2024, Bandwidth supports the automatic disablement of messages on telephone numbers (TNs) that have been moved to another provider.

Effective January 29, 2024, Bandwidth is able to support number portability to Bandwidth on mobile number ranges in Australia that you or your customers intend to use for person-to-person (P2P) communications. To port in a number to Bandwidth, follow our standard number porting process.

Effective November 29, 2023, existing global customers now have access to a Unified Emergency Services Provisioning API. This allows for the provisioning and updating of endpoints and addresses via a single API across 35 countries on the Global Portal.

Effective November 9, 2023, the Messaging Insights menu features a new region drop-down that allows you to see your data filtered by either “US” or “EU” as the data origin. This change allows us to continue providing direct access to your data while also maintaining compliance with regional and international data privacy and security laws and regulations. 

By default, the drop-down displays US, which populates Messaging Insights with message data originating in the US and Canada. When you select EU, you will see all other data including data from other supported countries and alphanumeric messages.

For more information on Messaging Insights, check out our support article.

Effective October 23, 2023, domestic outbound calling in South Africa has been added to Bandwidth’s global reach. Bandwidth’s South Africa service portfolio now includes number portability, local numbers, national numbers, domestic toll-free services, and domestic outbound calling (excluding access to emergency services).

For more details on enabling outbound call routing for your numbers, check out our integration guide.

Effective August 21, 2023, a new attestation metric will be available for France calls on our Voice Insights Metrics page. Attestation is used to determine a caller’s validity for using a specific number and can be used as a confidence indicator from the originating service provider to signal whether the party originating the call has the right to use the number. 

For more information, check out our support article.

Effective August 14, 2023, the E164 Pattern filter available on the Global Insights Metrics page has been updated; the name of the filter is now Numbers. Customers are able to search for any To and From number within their CDRs. 

To learn more, check out our support article.

As of August 24, 2023, Zone Capacity alerts are now visible to all customers on the Alert page in Insights. When a new Zone is created, a Zone Capacity alert will automatically be added to the account. A threshold of 90% is automatically set for the alert, though customers can edit the Alert in the Alert dashboard to adjust the threshold as needed.

For more information on Alerts, check out our support article. 

On July 25, 2023, Bandwidth released a new Short Code Management feature in the Bandwidth App. 

Customers who choose to have Bandwidth manage their short code lease will be able to self-manage:

• The opportunity to select from various lease lengths (3, 6, or 12 months)
• Automatic lease renewal
• Subscribing to automatic notifications via email

We’re excited to share that we have made the Germany Emergency Services (ES) activation process faster! The emergency address activation time for single numbers has improved from five days to near-real time, and the emergency address activation time for number ranges and extensions is down to one business day!

You do not need to do anything to access this update; just continue to submit your ES requests via CSV file on the Global Portal as usual.