Case Study: Telia Company achieves one-stop, cross-border strong authentication with Ubisecure's Identity Platform

The Award-Winning Telia Identification Broker Service

Telia Company, a leading Nordic telecommunications provider, faced the challenge of offering customers and B2B partners multiple strong authentication options without forcing each organisation to sign and maintain many separate contracts with banks and identity providers. To address this, Telia partnered with Ubisecure (with integration support from Nixu) to create the Telia Identification Broker Service (TIBS) built on the Ubisecure Identity Platform, consolidating KYC and multi‑factor authentication under a single service and integration.

Ubisecure delivered a scalable identity‑brokering solution that supports OpenID Connect, SAML, OAuth and other federation protocols, enabling TIBS to relay multiple strong authentication methods through one standards‑based API. The service is live with the Finnish Population Register Centre (about 100 million sign‑ins/year, with Telia covering ~38%, roughly 38 million today), is eIDAS/GDPR‑compliant, cut integration and admin costs, sped up deployments, and won Best Consumer Identity Project at the European Identity & Cloud Awards 2019 — all powered by Ubisecure.

Telia Company

Joni Rapanen

Global Product Manager