MEF Connects Content & Payments: Africa
This must-attend gathering will welcome Mobile Network Operators, Payment Service Providers, Digital Content Providers and Creators, Regulatory Representatives, and other key industry stakeholders to explore the evolving landscape of mobile content monetization through Direct Carrier Billing and Mobile Money.
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MEF’s 11th Annual Trust Study
The digital world is constantly evolving, and with it, the dynamics of trust. The MEF 11th Annual Trust Study 2025 offers a deep dive into how user perceptions are changing and what this means for the future of mobile interactions. Based on a survey of over 11,000 smartphone users across 17 markets, this report reveals a fundamental reshaping of trust.
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Available on demand – MEF CONNECTS Business Messaging
MEF CONNECTS Business Messaging is where industry leaders, businesses and technology providers explore the latest advancements in business messaging . This year’s event focuses on tech innovation and market needs for brands and consumers in 2025 and beyond – plus features an exclusive ‘Audience with the UK Home Office’
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MEF’s Basic RCS Positioning Paper
This essential guide delves into the evolution of SMS, introducing Basic RCS as a powerful tool for brands seeking verified, secure, and engaging communication. Explore the key benefits, including brand recognition, enhanced customer insights, and reduced fraud, all while maintaining cost efficiency with SMS-equivalent pricing.
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Available on demand – MEF CONNECTS Identity & Wallets
MEF Connects: ID & Wallets is designed to navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of digital identity and mobile wallets, a focused, interactive forum where industry leaders, innovators, and visionaries converge to dissect the critical challenges and groundbreaking opportunities shaping our digital future.
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The IoT wholesale market is facing a unique challenge around the lack of standardization in Call Detail Record formats; without uniform APIs and CDR formats, the industry relies on complex, custom solutions that limit scalability and interoperability.
Produced by MEF’s Connectivity & Wholesale Best Practice Working Group, this guideline aims to tackle that by promoting best practices for standardization.
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MEF provides its Members with global and cross-sector platforms for networking, collaboration and advancing industry solutions. Companies of all sizes & stages leverage MEF’s collaborative platforms to network & learn.
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Brazil’s Payment Revolution Accelerates: PIX Automático Launches
Brazil’s payment landscape is evolving yet again with the launch this month of PIX Automático. With PIX already transforming how individuals and businesses transact, the addition of automation has major implications for the mobile ecosystem. In this article, MEF’s Dario Betti explores how this new feature, enabling automated recurring payments,…
MEF Member News Round-up, wc June 2nd
Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news…On June 10, Telia will join leading telecom companies including Deutsche Telekom, Elisa, Ericsson, Nokia, Tele2, Telenor, Tre, and Vodafone to participate in Global Virtual Telco Pride 2025.
Global Mobile News Digest, May 30th
We take a weekly look at mobile and tech stories from around the world. Headlines include… Trump to Apple: Make iPhones in America or Pay Up, Meta’s Mobile Empire Faces Judgment After Landmark Antitrust Trial, Apple to Launch Unified Gaming Hub Across Devicesand much more… Alternatively listen On MEF Radio.…
The Global Hype Around Communications Platform as a Service: What’s All the Noise About?
CPaaS is one of the most talked-about concepts in enterprise communications – but delivering on its promise is far from simple. In this guest post, Matko Bulić, Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead at TeleSystems, explores what it really takes to build a CPaaS platform that lives up to the…
Accelerating your mobile opportunity
The Mobile Ecosystem Forum is a global trade body that acts as an impartial and authoritative champion for addressing issues affecting the broadening mobile ecosystem. We work with our members to accelerate sustainable market growth that drives inclusion for all and delivers trusted services to enrich the lives of consumers worldwide.
“MEF has supported Telefonica with real world practical guidance, particularly around industry best practice and codes of conduct. It provides a forum to bring industry experts together, to problem solve, to share, and to network. We have found our membership to offer numerous benefits across our footprint, and long may this relationship continue.”
Jenny Whelan, TelefonicaGlobal Head of Business Communications and Digital Advertising
“Our membership in MEF and the Future of Messaging program afford us inner access to invaluable information on the direction of our industry and opportunities to foster collaboration with industry partners. We have also been able to advocate and influence industry changes at the highest levels, on issues like evolving business models and de-commoditizing mobile messaging. Being active in MEF has increased our industry visibility and allowed us to meaningfully contribute to the industry dialogue.”
Ira Cohen, MMDSmartVP, Business Development and Marketing
“One of the things I like best about Mobile Ecosystem Forum is its pragmatic approach to engaging and helping its members. As an example, I am thinking about the well organised and well led, working groups on Mobile IOT and on Personal Data & Identity which Mvine is involved in. The program leaders are particularly knowledgeable and always seek collaboration among members. This is a good thing. And it works.”
Joseph Spear, MvineDirector of Communications
“The MEF is the framework where relevant debates and significant initiatives to change our market take place. Telecoming, as well as other players of the mobile industry, participates with the firm intention of driving business growth in a healthy environment and promoting innovation. Our company was founded in 2008 on these two ideas, and since then, we have worked with the solid conviction of developing cutting-edge technology to lead the DCB market.”
Cyrille Thivat, TelecomingCEO
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