Tag: direct operator billing
With Juniper Research putting the ‘cost’ to mobile operators from OTT messaging in 2017 at $104 billion, the search for quick new revenue streams must surely intensify. With revenue models from IoT, 5G, VR, AI and ‘Who Knows What’ still crystallising, there is one immediate opportunity that seems to be slipping through operators’ fingers. Carrier […]
For the last few years we have been asking whether 201x is the ‘year of mobile payments.’ Until last year, we basically said no. Last year, once we finally believed that Apple was on the point of actually launching something game changing, we changed our minds. Asking the same question now, at the beginning of 2015, […]
When you hear the name Google, many things come to mind. It could be the ubiquitous search engine, Android mobile phones, cloud applications and services or even that less-than-stellar movie The Internship. And now you can add direct operator billing to the list of terms associated with the behemoth tech company. Yes, Google is making […]
It is often the quiet ones that make the biggest steps. And Bango is not necessarily a company you would think of when reviewing a list of billing companies. The company has teamed up with Cardmobili, a digital wallet company that focuses on loyalty services to provide operators with the ability to increase the payment […]
The short list for prizes for the most under-stated headline now includes this gem for our friends at Mobile Payments Today. It reads ‘MNOs face some uncertainty with mobile wallets.’ It should have included a cartoon of an executive having a panic attack, or being crushed by an Apple or having a panic attack because he […]
Further proof, if further proof is needed, of the real value that a communications provider can deliver to customers came this week. Telecoms.com and others reported that O2UK has launched ‘Charge to Mobile.’ As you might expect, this means that customers can, er, charge things to their mobile. Etisalsat has also announced that they will […]
The recent Facebook gathering, F8, revealed some more of the company’s plans. In one announcement Facebook said it was launching its own third party ad platform, with the same level of personalization and targeting as its own. In another, App Link is designed to make it easier to share content within the Mobile App universe. […]
According to the latest research by Juniper, ‘global payments via mobile devices will reach $507 billion this year, a rise of 40 percent.’ The initial reaction at the BillingViews Detective Agency was to welcome the news and to take it at face value. But then one of our top detectives began to get an itchy nose […]
30 percent of the operators at the recent ETIS Billing and Revenue Management meeting are offering some form of Direct Operator Billing (DOB). While this clearly means that 70 percent are not, this is because the circumstances of their markets were not conducive to launching DOB or because they were still in the ‘thinking’ stage. […]
Last year, we didn’t do too badly with our hashtags for MWC 2013. We wanted to watch billing and pricing obviously, but we also wanted to watch NFC and the OTT players. Both turned out to be issues debated throughout the year. This year, we will be watching some similar ones, some different. #Wearable_tech – […]
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