> When BICS acquired TeleSign in 2017, it began to fall under the partial control of BICS' parent company, Belgian telecom giant Proximus. Proximus held a partial stake in BICS, which Proximus spun off from its own operations in 1997.

> In 2021, Proximus bought out BICS' other shareholders, making it the sole owner of both the telecom interchange and TeleSign.

Curious how the article's headline goes out of its way to emphasize "US vendor" when the puppet masters in the underlying corporate structure are entirely Belgian.