Alex Leslie
Alex was Founder and CEO of the Global Billing Association (GBA), a trade body focused on the communications sector. He is a sought after speaker and chairman at leading industry conferences, and is widely published in communications magazines around the world. Until it closed, he was Contributing Editor, OSS/BSS for Connected Planet. He is publisher of DisruptiveViews and previously BillingViews.
The industry is divided on whether NFC is the foundation of mobile payments, …. or much more. BillingViews asked the industry.
Say you are a member of the close-knit community of approximately 40 million people who play Angry Birds each month. You are therefore one of 40 million people who understand the intuitive nature of a) in-app billing and b) how easy it should be for operators to capture the billing market. Billing, not so long […]
BillingViews talked to a senior IT Director at a North American carrier. He was in the middle of a major system conversion. The billing system had been built in-house many years previously and the reluctance to change was huge. But, as the business expanded and developed multiple services the flaws began to show. There was no […]
First published in 2011 BillingViews had the opportunity to catch up with a communications professional that has experience of billing vendor, media and service provider environments. He was involved in conversations some years ago about how to monetise new services. We started talking about advertising – an area that he is currently focused on. It […]
Sometimes phrases escape that shouldn’t. John Donohoe, CEO of eBay almost certainly wishes his comment that NFC stands for ‘not for commerce’ had been kept locked up. It went viral in a ‘let’s make a headline/host a webinar/write a story’ based on a controversial phrase kind of way. Such a webinar took place yesterday. This time the phrase was […]
Talking to operators about billing is completely different to talking to anyone else about billing. Journalists are hugely influenced by the press releases and the reports they receive, full of promises and growth. Vendors have a job to do, which includes pushing their products and visions of the future. Operators have the worst job, they […]
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