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Articles tagged with: Mobile Payments and Itu
Mobile Payments Surging Ahead with Opportunities in Emerging Markets
In the last five years, markets with mobile payment offers have matured with a variety of players entering the industry value chain and new services being launched. Initially, there was a race to enter the market and a strong rivalry between different technological propositions that would facilitate mobile transaction channels. Today, we observe that, in many national markets, only one or two dominant mobile payment platforms (e.g. the paybox platform in Austria) have prevailed, and key issues now being addressed include cross border interoperability and standardization. more
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Visa Makes NFC Mobile Point-of-Sale Payments Commercially Available
Credit card merchant, Visa has announced the launch of the world's first commercial Visa mobile payments service for point-of-sale transactions using Near Field Communications (NFC) technology. The service marks the first time consumers can purchase an NFC-enabled mobile device off the shelf and use that device to make Visa payWave-enabled transactions at the point-of-sale instead of using their payment card. more
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Deutsche Bank to Roll Out Mobile Payments to 80 Countries
Deutsche Bank's Global Transaction Banking (GTB) division has announced that it is introducing mobile phone payments services to its clients in 80 countries across Europe, Middle East and Asia. Luup, a European-based mobile payment provider, will partner with Deutsche Bank to provide the service. more
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Visa Works with GSMA to Extend Access to Mobile Financial Services
Credit card merchant, Visa has announced plans to work with the GSM Association to advance the delivery of mobile financial services around the world. As part of the continuing collaboration between the two organizations, the GSMA has selected Visa as a provider for mobile money transfer solutions globally, and is working to execute an agreement to formalize participation terms. more
Related Tags: sim-card, sim, eu, gsm, gsma, visa, interoperability
Polish Mobile Values Services Market Up by 22% in 2008
In its latest report, research and consulting firm PMR estimates that as at the end of 2008 the mobile value added services market in Poland was worth approx. PLN 930 million (US$265 million), up by almost 22% year on year. Between 2009 and 2012 the market is expected to grow further, driven mainly by the development of new value added services that broaden the range of applications of mobile phones - mobile payments, mobile television and mobile marketing. more
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