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Mobile is often characterized as a consumer-facing service, but in fact it is central to how people and corporations work. Mobile services tend to center on individuals, but they span all of the aspects of an individual’s lifestyle. This is part of why BYOD is growing as a trend, but that trend creates challenges for […]
There is a flurry of surveys out at the moment about the future of payments. Banks, it seems, are realizing that there have to be alternatives to NFC, while consumers say they like PayPal better than Google and Apple when it comes to paying via mobile. If PayPal offered a mobile wallet 80 percent of […]
TV is becoming the new frontline in the battle for customers, their attention and new revenues. Pay TV is booming and the number of accounts is set to pass a billion in just two years’ time, according to analysts at Pyramid Research. Although cable accounts will decrease as a percentage, it will still account for […]
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As Amex joins its main rivals as part of the ISIS team and that consortium seems to be enjoying renewed confidence, we look further afield for mobile payments news. To Tonga, first, where, according to a 2011 World Bank report, remittance payments constitute more than 30 percent of the Tongan GDP, placing it the second […]
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 […]
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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