MEF Member News round-up

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América Móvil’s Claro Brasil wants to be the 4G leader in Brazil and to have, by the end of this year, 9,000 antennas ready to deliver 4.5G technology, CEO Paulo César Teixeira told reporters in São Paulo before the opening of the 2017 Futurecom conference.

Apart from launching 4.5G, the company’s plan to take top spot involves selling quad-play packages combining pay TV, broadband, fixed telephony and mobile telephony..

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Bango has won the award for the ‘Most Innovative DCB Technology’ at the Global Direct Carrier Billing Awards 2017, continuing a very strong year. Hosted in London on Tuesday, 26 September, as part of the Global Carrier Billing Summit event, this was the first Global Direct Carrier Billing Awards competition.

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Wirecard, the leading expert in digital payment solutions, is entering into an innovation partnership with evopark GmbH. As part of the collaboration, both companies plan to link evopark’s existing app with Wirecard’s mobile payment and loyalty features in order to guarantee a seamless customer journey at all car parks across Germany in the future.

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Following the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria, Digicel says it has intensified its humanitarian and restoration efforts to get much-needed supplies and technical equipment to Dominica, which was hit by the monster Category Five storm.

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Infobip, the leading global communications platform for business, which operates more than 50 offices in more than 40 countries, announces today its plans to open new offices in San Francisco and New York, establishing a physical presence in the U.S for the first time.

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Upstream has announced the launch of Security Kit, following a further partnership with award winning global security provider, Bitdefender. Security Kit brings together anti-virus and parental control protection into one holistic offering, enabling operators to better meet the needs of their mobile subscribers in developing markets.

George Kalyvas, Head of Product at Upstream, commented: “As consumers in high growth markets become more connected, they naturally have a growing appetite for a variety of digital services.

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Online video library AnyClip has handed PubMatic an agreement to monetise its inventory via programmatic advertising. This covers sites such as International Business Times.

AnyClip uses artificial intelligence (AI) and image recognition to search clip content from publishers, film studios and sports teams. It can use this intelligence to deliver a contextually appropriate video clip and accompanying ad.

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Gemalto has unveiled the Gemalto Assurance Hub, which analyses the profile and behaviour of customers in real time to detect potential attacks.

The hub processes millions of transactions built from thousands of attributes (such as device profiling, location, user behavior, biometric data or keypad style). It can then flag unusual patterns and request a higher level of authentication.

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Guy Krief has been promoted by mobile commerce firm Upstream to chief executive. He takes over from co-founder Marco Veremis, who has become executive chairman.
Krief joined Upstream in 2004 and was most recently chief innovation officer. He was also co-founder of Persado, an Upstream spin-off company dedicated to AI-generated marketing.