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.
Forbes estimates that MasterCard’s transaction volumes will nearly double to 53 billion by 2018 as it executes on its mobile money initiative. Aimed at the 2.5 billion financially under-served consumers worldwide the programme will be fueled by collaboration with all the players in the ecosystem including technology providers, mobile network operators and financial institutions. MasterCard has already […]
PayPal has been investing a lot of time re-examining the world of payments. Its conclusion is that mobile payments is about shopping not about payments. According to the official blog, penned by Sam Shrauger, Vice President, Global Product & Experience, PayPal is “redefining the future of money”. It is not about “replacing a card swipe […]
The most obvious, the most compelling business model for Facebook is advertising. With the profiles of over 800 million consumers in its grasp, the obvious thing to do is offer those consumers stuff they want. However, with an IPO looming and institutions adept at profit making ready to invest, the most obvious thing for those institutions is […]
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 of 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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Now that we have nearly finished connecting everyone and are serious about connecting everything, the analysts are in full ‘prediction’ mode. How big the M2M market will be in two, five or fifteen years time is a weekly debate. But since the eco-system is still evolving it is impossible to guess. Predictions vary from billions […]
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