47 CFR 64.6300 defines a gateway provider as a United States based intermediate provider that receives a call directly from a foreign originating or intermediate provider at its United States facilities before passing it downstream to another United States provider, and an intermediate provider as any entity that carries or processes traffic traversing the public switched telephone network while neither originating nor terminating it.

Checked 2026-09-16

Vendor
Federal Communications Commission
Product
STIR SHAKEN
Subsystem
Regulation
Deployment
not restricted
Region
united states
Release range
not restricted
Checked
2026-09-16

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 16). STIR SHAKEN attestation framework: source note shaken-cfr-defines-gateway-and-intermediate-providers. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/shaken-cfr-defines-gateway-and-intermediate-providers

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-shaken-cfr-defines-gateway-and-intermediate-providers,
  title  = {STIR SHAKEN attestation framework: source note shaken-cfr-defines-gateway-and-intermediate-providers},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/shaken-cfr-defines-gateway-and-intermediate-providers},
  note   = {Source note shaken-cfr-defines-gateway-and-intermediate-providers, checked 2026-09-16}
}

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