Articles tagged with: Billing and Bango

UK mobile content providers profit from booming US market

UK based mobile billing supplier, Bango says that the lure of the growing US mobile market is proving to be rewarding for many of the UK's mobile content brands. UK market leaders including Flirtomatic, Mobile Streams and Animation FC have all launched in the US and are profiting from the availability of mobile search and advertising inventory along with mobile web payments covering both on-bill and credit cards to maximize revenues. more

Bango Enables Operator Billing Over Wi-Fi

Mobile billing vendor, Bango says that it has developed a way of allowing operator billing to work on smartphones when they connect to websites over a Wi-Fi connection. Currently, smartphone users are redirected to credit card payment instead of placing charges on their mobile phone bill. According to Nokia's VP of product management, George Linardos, operator billing immediately increases sales by 70%, making this a significantly more attractive marketplace. more

Related Tags: wi-fi, smartphone, mobile-web, connect, UK

Wi-Fi Usage by Smartphones Impacting Mobile Content Revenues

Mobile billing service provider, Bango has warned that over 20% of people visiting web sites to purchase content using their mobile phones are now connecting via Wi-Fi. The firm says that this presents a major challenge to both content providers and operators as these mobile visitors are unrecognized by the networks, making it difficult to sell and market mobile services to them and hence impacting mobile content revenues. more

Mobile Web Analytics Platform Tracks Users Over Different Network Connections

Mobile billing and analytics firm, Bango has launched its latest version of its site tracking platform, which the firm says can now track a mobile internet user even if they switch from cellular to Wi-Fi whilst visiting the same website. more

Related Tags: analytics, wi-fi, smartphone, , privacy, itu, tim, ovi, iden, mobile-internet, mobile-analytics

Mobile Billing Vendor Lures Exec from Rival Firm

Bango's director of New Business Development, Marc Saulino has moved over to rival mobile billing vendor, billing Revolution to take up a similar role as VP of Business Development. In his new role, Mr. Saulino will oversee sales of the company's technology platform, new customer relationships, and business development efforts globally. more

Related Tags: sim, mobile-billing

iPhone: Not a top 20 handset for browsing and buying on the mobile web

According to statistics released by mobile billing and analytics firm, Bango, when it comes to the most popular phones for browsing and buying content on the mobile web worldwide, the iPhone still sits outside the top 20. The Bango Top 20 handset list, based on Bango's February statistics, puts the Nokia 3110c on top, followed by the Samsung M800 in 2nd and the Nokia 6300 in 3rd. more

USA Knocks UK off the Top of Charts for Mobile Web Browsing and Buying

..% of payments worldwide, compared to 38% in the UK." Bango has made operator billing much more efficient by enabling people to simply single-click to buy and download content straight to their mobile handsets. This optimized user experience more

Related Tags: sim, iphone, apple, mobile-advertising, apple-iphone, africa, mobile-web

Bango reports four-fold increase in WAP billing in the USA

In the last three months, mobile billing vendor, Bango says that it has seen a four-fold increase in the number of WAP transactions in the USA, as content providers choose to sell their content using its mobile billing relationships with AT&T, Sprint Nextel and Virgin Mobile. This reflects a shift in the way mobile content is sold in the US with WAP billing gaining momentum as the industry realizes the mobile web delivers a superior and safer consumer experience. more

US appetite for mobile web surfing expected to surpass UK this month

Mobile web data released by mobile billing vendor, Bango confirms that mobile web usage is not only gaining traction in the United States but soon will surpass the UK, where consumers have accessed the Internet from phones for years. more

Related Tags: wall-street-journal, mobile-billing, mobile-web,

Bango Launches Mobile Billing Service in South Africa

UK based mobile billing supplier, Bango has announced it is now processing on-bill payments in South Africa, one of the leading countries in the mobile web. South Africa, which is in the top five countries in Bango's mobile web surfing chart, has over 42 million mobile subscribers and a mobile penetration rate of between 85-90% of the population. more

Related Tags: analytics, mtn, mobile-billing, wap, mobile-web, South Africa

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