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Unlocking mobile content in Africa, the Basebone imperative

MEF member Basebone is now 10 years old. The company has built a business on providing mobile entertainment and value-added services through paid subscription portals across 10 countries in four continents. Its focus is on high growth, mobile first regions. The model works. In South Africa alone the company has…
MEF
June 14, 2017
Mobile PaymentsVAS

Mobile money and interoperability in growth markets (part 2)

In part one Srinivas Nidugondi, Senior Vice President & Head of Mobile Financial Solutions at Mahindra Comviva discussed the importance of interoperablity between mobile money services and explained some of the barriers that are holding the market back. Here he discusses the benefits and drivers of the mobile money space…
MEF
May 15, 2017
Mobile PaymentsVAS

Mobile money and interoperability in growth markets (part 1)

Mobile money is a widespread business today available in two-thirds of low-and-middle-income countries. By the end of December 2016, 277 mobile money services were operating in 92 countries. However, a majority of these mobile money operators provide closed loop services, which restricts the scope of digital transactions between users registered…
MEF
May 8, 2017
Enterprise CommunicationsVAS

Chill! SMS provides a cool machine fix

Philips Healthcare manufactures, manages and maintains expensive and sophisticated IT machines for the healthcare sector all over the world. And when their machines break down, repair is usually complex, requiring skilled engineers, and above all very costly. Far better then to implement early warning systems that detect and forecast impending…
Tim Green
March 21, 2017
MEF