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Articles tagged with: Premium Sms
SMS Aggregator Orders WAP Billing Platform
mBlox, the premium SMS service provider has orders an end-to-end transaction engine -- PaymentsPlus from Valista, to support its next generation mobile billing services, including WAP billing. The technology from Valista, whose clients include Vodafone, Orange, AOL and DoCoMo, processes and routes direct billing transactions to the correct operator which charges consumers on their monthly phone bill. The technology also enables payments to be settled with the correct content provider across a wide variety of payment channels and transport protocols. more
Related Tags: docomo, mblox, mobile-billing
Australian Regulator Publishes Mobile Chat Regulations
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has released a guide for mobile chat providers on how to make their services safer for children. The Guide recognises the benefits that mobile chat services can bring for communications and social networking, but also provides information on the small but real risk of mobile chat services being used to facilitate illegal contact between children and adults. more
Related Tags: australian-communications-and-media-authority, acma
Mobile DRM Issues Set to Cost Europe US$4.4 billion in 2006
The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) has called on the industry to end revenue leakage and protect content rights by delivering an open and interoperable mDRM solution based on a clear open standard. DRM is core to every mobile transaction - every time a ringtone, music track or game is downloaded royalties must be sourced back to the content provider, producers and/or artists. more
Related Tags: frost-&-sullivan, mms, mobile-entertainment-forum, drm
Mobile365 Signs Premium SMS Deal in Taiwan
Mobile 365 says that it has successfully obtained full Premium SMS (PSMS) connectivity with three mobile operators in Taiwan. The cross-operator PSMS connectivity not only enables Mobile 365 customers to reach over 23 million mobile subscribers in Taiwan, but lets those customers to connect to its global distribution footprint of over 120 PSMS connections across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. more
Related Tags: taiwan-mobile
Network Operators Dominate Mobile Games Sales - report
As several mobile games publishers announce their intentions to launch direct-to-consumer sales of mobile games, M:Metrics says that it has found that the vast majority of mobile game consumers rely on their carriers to inform their mobile game purchases, a trend that has remained steady over the past six months. more
Related Tags: amd, mobile-games
MMS Is A Huge Success In Norway
Strand Reports has noted that it would not have been completely misleading, if SMS had been the abbreviation for "Surprising Messaging Success" - as the success of SMS messages took the mobile operators completely by surprise. Currently mobile operators are hoping that MMS will likewise mean "More Messaging Success" - but apart from the Norwegian operators, there do not seem to be any operators that have learnt anything from previous mistakes or successes and thereby the mobile operators are preventing their own success. more
Related Tags: walled-garden, mms, netcom
Secure shopfront for mobile phones
The UK based mobile content supplier, Amplefuture has announced the launch of the AFL Pocket Portal, an application that sits on the mobile handset menu and gives content providers and media companies the opportunity to provide consumers with a branded storefront in their customer's pockets with magazine-like features. It also provides links to purchase a wide range of information services and content such as music, images and games. more
Wireless adult content market will grow to $1 Billion globally by 2008
U.S. carriers are the latest to discover that half of the traffic outside their walled gardens is related to adult content. Fear is trumping greed for the moment, but according to the Yankee Group report, Child Protection Unlocks Wireless Adult Content Market, the two can work together--if carriers can develop a solid mechanism for protecting minors, as Vodafone UK has done, and they can safely profit from the opportunity. more
Related Tags: walled-garden, vodafone-uk, yankee-group, adult-content
Netpace says that it is to start providing premium text messaging services for the USA based CDMA operator, Verizon Wireless. "Due to the widespread take-up of SMS, 'premium SMS' is emerging as the next frontier of growth in messaging," said Naqi A. Jaffery, President, Telecom Trends International. "Because it allows users to make payments over the mobile phone, premium SMS is the key to making mobile phones a transaction medium." more
Related Tags: m-commerce, mobile-commerce
Acotel Group has announced that mobile phone users in the USA can subscribe to receive the Pope's Thought of the Day, a daily premium SMS containing thoughts, prayers and guidance directly from the Pontiff's teachings, on their mobile phones. more
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