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Articles tagged with: Mobile Payments
Telstra Testing NFC Payments by Mobile Phone
Australian mobile operator, Telstra along with local bank, NAB and Visa have launched a contactless, mobile phone payments trial with a group of consumers and participating merchants at Melbourne's Docklands. more
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Mobile Money Transfers to Exceed $5 Billion by 2013
A new analysis by Juniper Research forecasts that Service Provider revenues, derived from mobile money transfer services and remittances, will exceed $5 billion globally by 2013 -- based on the commissions and charges that they will acquire from the gross value of money transactions made, both domestically within countries and internationally. more
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Telcos Believe Launching New Mobile Content Should Take Less than a Month
A survey commissioned by Valista and conducted at the Building Blocks 2008 conference held last week found that over 86 percent of the industry insiders interviewed believe that it should take less than a month to launch new mobile content and services with an operator. This expectation is far from reality, as 80 percent of respondents stated that it actually takes between 3 and 9 months to introduce new mobile content and services. more
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Operators Need to Look at the Bigger Picture for NFC
Much has been made of the market for mobile payments and ticketing services using NFC; but is there more to the market for NFC-enabled services than this? IMS ResearchÃ's latest reports on NFC ICs and Mobile Wallet Services see good potential for multiple new revenue streams, supported by a long trail of NFC-based applications but they are at risk if the operators are unable to agree a suitable business model with their new financial partners. more
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Satyam Denied Leave to Appeal Over Legal Action by Upaid
The UK's House of Lords has refused India software house Satyam leave to appeal the case between it and UK based mobile payments vendor, Upaid. The only issue now left open in the UK is how much Satyam will have to pay Upaid in legal fees. more
Obopay and Grameen to Provide Mobile Banking to Developing Nations
Mobile payments provider, Obopay has inked a deal with Grameen Solutions to deliver banking services to a billion of the worldÃ's poorest people by 2018. The Grameen-Obopay Bank A Billion Initiative will provide access to affordable financial services, including cross-border remittances, money transfer, payments, savings and credit accounts. more
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Over 2bn Mobile Users to Buy Digital Goods With their Phones by 2013
A new analysis of the global mobile payments opportunity forecasts that 2.1 billion mobile subscribers will "pay by mobile" for digital goods downloaded to their mobile phones by 2013. Juniper Research defines digital goods as music (ringtones and full tracks), tickets, TV, user-generated content, infotainment and games - in fact any content bought by phone and delivered to the phone. more
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Belgacom Buys Specialist in Mobile-Phone Parking Payments
BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- Belgian leading telecommunications company Belgacom said Thursday it is taking over Mobile-for, a specialist in mobile payments for parking services. more
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NFC Mobile Phones to Generate $75bn Worth of Payment Transactions Within 5 Years
A new analysis of the NFC mobile payments opportunity forecasts that the gross transaction value of payments made via NFC contactless technology, for relatively low value purchases (such as refreshments, tickets and food), will exceed $75bn globally by 2013. more
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Alliance to Accelerate European Deployment of Mobile Payment Services
The GSMA, the global trade body for the mobile industry, and the European Payments Council, which represents 8,000 banks in the European Union and EEA and Switzerland, are to work together to accelerate the deployment of services that enable consumers to pay for goods and services in shops, restaurants and other locations using their mobile phones. more
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