MEF CONNECTS Anti-Fraud 2025
Join us at MEF CONNECTS Anti-Fraud 2025 on the 16th of September in London, where the entire anti-fraud industry value chain converges. This is your essential opportunity to connect with and learn from leaders and policymakers committed to combating fraud head-on.
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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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Geolocation in Instagram: 37 USA State Attorneys call for review
State Attorneys General are pressuring Instagram over its new location-sharing feature, citing risks to children and vulnerable users. The issue mirrors TikTok’s forced divestment and fines on U.S. carriers for selling location data. Globally, regulators treat geolocation as highly sensitive. MEF CEO Dario Betti takes a look at how precise…
The FTC draws a Red Line: Don’t Export Foreign Censorship – or Weaken U.S. Security
MEF Advisor Paul Ruppert highlights the FTC warning to tech firms not to weaken U.S. security or apply foreign censorship rules to Americans. The agency cites Europe’s DSA and UK laws as pressure points. Companies must separate U.S. operations, substantiate encryption promises, disclose constraints, and prepare governance plans or risk…
Names, Records, Permissions, Rights. Welcome to the Knotty World of Agentic ID
OpenAI just launched an intelligent agent based on ChatGPT. Exciting. But the new agentic era poses head-scratching questions around identity and authentication. Tim Green, Programme Director for MEF ID and Data, outlines the big issues. I remember the day I first heard about intelligent agents. I was on stage at…
WhatsApp: 6.8 Million Accounts Deleted for ‘Romance Baiting’
Meta removed 6.8 million WhatsApp accounts tied to scam centres in H1 2025, targeting romance baiting and crypto fraud schemes that cost victims billions. Messaging apps remain prime fraud channels, demanding proactive AI defense, safer features, and multi-stakeholder action. MEF CEO Dario Betti explores how industry coalitions and user education…
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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