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Point of Sale fraud is not something that is generally associated with telecoms. The communications industry tends to focus on network usage and pattern analysis to identify the patterns that lead to fraud prevention. According to the Communications Fraud Control Association, however, there should be greater focus, as Point of Sale fraud accounts for […]
Interesting development in the M2M world, or at least the connectivity piece. It will be interesting to see how many telecoms companies will venture into the unknown world beyond connectivity, with so many other opportunities and threats to address – payments, OTT players (both opportunities). TelecomTV | News | Seven major operators form global M2M […]
Two announcements on top of each other mark the real beginning of the Payments Game, in which telcos will compete on a different level and in a different, multi-player, game for the first time. Deutsche Telekom picked Mastercard for its attack on the payments world, with plans to roll out a major payments programme. Its […]
Comptel released results of a poll earlier this week that was taken last month during its annual user group meeting. The poll results, displayed in these pie charts, could be interpreted in two different ways. Comptel argues that its poll “reinforces the industry’s trajectory towards putting big data into action.” That’s one reasonable interpretation; but […]
As the evidence mounts that mobile is becoming Big Brand’s weapon of choice in the battle for precision marketing – i.e. maximising marketing dollars – we were focusing on SMS. It is the perfect, if old, medium. Now, though, Twitter is getting attention with its mobile ads. Twitter’s Mobile Ads Begin to Click – WSJ.com.
Omantel’s recent history tells a story about rapid growth. Oman’s population, according to Google is roughly 2.8 million people; Omantel, according to its most recent financial statements, claims a mobile subscriber base of 2.3 million, which has grown by 13 percent in just the past year. Of the 300,000 mobile customers Omantel added in that […]
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