Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Ban or no ban, Facebook wins in U.S. threats against TikTok, TikTok reportedly mulls corporate changes, California Consumer Privacy Act shatters attributable mobile advertising rates and much more… On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the U.S. is “looking at” banning Chinese social media apps, including the Chinese-owned company TikTokRead More »
Last month MEF’s Future of Messaging Programme launched its Securing A2P SMS Business Messaging Whitepaper developed by members of its Fraud & Security Working Group. The comprehensive guide makes best practice recommendations when using SMS for Two Factor Authentication and provides practical use cases. In this webinar, some of the contributors of the paper come together to discuss best practices for ensuring SMS remains a clean and secure channel for enterprises particularly when it comes to sending OTPs.Read More »
Last month MEF’s Future of Messaging Programme launched its Securing A2P SMS Business Messaging Whitepaper developed by members of its Fraud & Security Working Group. The comprehensive guide makes best practice recommendations when using SMS for Two Factor Authentication and provides practical use cases. In this webinar, some of the…
Rafael Pellon, MEF LatAm advisor and partner at Pellon de Lima Advogados shares insights from a recent webinar where Artificial Intelligence experts discussed the changing regulatory landscape around AI and what governments and regulators need to do to keep ahead, or even to keep up, with the technology. During such…
Ominchannel is sweeping through the business world. Every company knows it has to give customers the full range of communications channels – and to make sure those channels are linked. Last week’s MEF webinar looked at how this revolution is changing the contact centre. Here are the highlights. Call centres…
MEF Mobile IoT Advisor, Andrew Parkin-White shares his takeaways from the round-table discussion on the growing IoT ecosystem and the IoT Programme at MEF held in Barcelona. In the final part of the series, the focus is on the issue of the identity of things. Bringing best practice to the…
Iain McCallum, mobile industry veteran and MEF Advisor discusses the Covid-19 pandemic with Julian Ranger, Founder and Executive Chairman of digital identity specialists Digi.me and explores how mobile technology can play a role in mitigating the impact of the crisis. Towards the end of April 2020, I was joined by…
As part of MEF’s COVID19 IMPACT series, Dario Betti asks Ira Cohen from MMD Smart how small and medium enterprises can maintain their business and grow customer relations. While the health emergency is now largely understood for COVID19 the impact on business is also becoming clearer. In particular, small and…
How did car insurer AA reduce its customer handling times by 40 per cent? Simple. It gave customers the ability to self-serve using a chatbot. In this Executive Insights video supported by Sinch, Louise McCormack, Customer Lifecycle Manager at AA Ireland, explains more.
In this Executive Insights video supported by Sinch, Nikola Aschoff, head of extended digital services at Mercedes-Benz, explains how bots are giving drivers fast and convenient answers to hundreds of questions.… “How do I turn on the air con?” It’s an important question for the new car owner.
Founder & CPO of Zeotap Projjol Banerjea discusses the challenges facing the digital marketing industry in the wake of the Covid -19 pandemic, and explores how brands can use this time to re-assess their marketing strategies and plan for a new digital marketing landscape, with new data privacy regulatory norms.…
Iain McCallum, mobile industry veteran and MEF Advisor discusses the Covid-19 pandemic with Julian Ranger, Founder and Executive Chairman of digital identity specialists Digi.me and explores how mobile technology can play a role in mitigating the impact of the crisis. Towards the end of April 2020, I was joined by…
In creating the internet of things, a challenge arises in understanding how we cope with the billions of “things” to be accurately identified, authorised and securely connected. MEF’s IoT advisor, Andrew Parkin-White, explores a range of issues for consideration when thinking about an IdoT solution and shares the five main…
MEF Member-only page for the latest updates from the Personal Data and Identity Working Group. If you would like to discuss the Working group or the PD&I Ecosystem contact Programme advisor, Iain McCallum. MEFBlog · PD&I Working Group #10 29/06/20 Download the slides Download the slides Download the slides Download…
Before the virus had an impact globally, we were seeing growth in IoT of up to 20% per year. Enterprises could see the clear value of IoT applications and adoption was on the increase. There was significant market potential and a high degree of confidence that 25m global IoT connections…
MEF’s SMS SenderID Protection Registry helps identify and block fraudulent SMS texts, protecting consumers, legitimate businesses and organisations falling victim to text messaging scams. Known as ‘Smishing’ criminals send bogus texts which appear to come from a trusted sender. The Registry allows organisations to register the message headers used when…
As the global COVID-19 pandemic continues, with countries at differing stages of response and recovery, we share further learnings and actions from MEF members working to support businesses and consumers as well as innovative solutions for fighting back against the virus. While most of the world comes about in unison…
The mobile ecosystem has been central to many of the innovations and creative solutions that have emerged in the last few weeks: not just in communications in keeping us connected but also in the essential sharing of information, entertainment, education, business and finance all now commonly managed at home from…
MEF IoT Advisor Andrew Parkin-White explores the issues surrounding IoT security and how the Covid-19 virus will affect its development. With our members, MEF has been exploring IoT security and how it is key to growing the overall IoT ecosystem. The question is therefore, will IoT security become more of…
Before the virus had an impact globally, we were seeing growth in IoT of up to 20% per year. Enterprises could see the clear value of IoT applications and adoption was on the increase. There was significant market potential and a high degree of confidence that 25m global IoT connections…
Impact of Covid-19 on the IoT Ecosystem IoT is not immune to Covid-19 but despite short to medium term challenges, new opportunities may arise with the ecosystem making a progressive recovery from 2021 onwards In this download, MEF explores a range of issues relating to the impact of Covid-19 resulting…
In creating the internet of things, a challenge arises in understanding how we cope with the billions of “things” to be accurately identified, authorised and securely connected. MEF’s IoT advisor, Andrew Parkin-White, explores a range of issues for consideration when thinking about an IdoT solution and shares the five main…
In our 5 minutes with profiles, MEF members talk about their business, their aspirations for the future and the wider mobile industry. This week, Director and co-founder James Huff introduces FireText. FireText Communications Ltd is a leading UK company, specialising in the provision of SMS services to thousands of businesses.…
In our 5 minutes with profiles, MEF members talk about their business, their aspirations for the future and the wider mobile industry. This week, Co-Founder Tony Pearce introduces Reality Gaming Group. We develop mass market games that utilize digital collectibles (NFT’s) and blockchain technology. Reality Gaming Group had developed two…
This week, CEO Sam Colley introduces IoT connectivity specialists and new MEF Member Pod Group. Pod Group is an MVNO that offers reliable, global IoT connectivity, along with connectivity management and analytics, a subscription-based billing engine and IoT-specific network security solutions. We’ve developed our own modular, easy-to-use IoT platform, Pod…
In our 5 minutes with profiles, MEF members talk about their business, their aspirations for the future and the wider mobile industry. This week, Sarah Keller, International Business Development Director introduces Global Message Services. Global Message Services is a global messaging provider that offers managed services solutions for mobile operators…
In this guest post, fintech and digital finance specialists Mondato explore the role of cash in a post-COVID 19 society – does the pandemic spell the end of ‘traditional’ payments already under pressure from the growing digital payment sector? The death of cash has been foretold for years. Among other…
In this guest post, MD and Group CEO of Route Mobile Rajdip Gupta shares his thoughts on RCS messaging in the context of the Coronovirus pandemic, and the potential opportunities for enterprise messaging, ahead of a webinar on the topic on Thursday the 21st May. The WHO has classified the…
In this guest post, fintech and digital finance specialists Mondato assess the impact and long term effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on privacy and personal data globally. As financial services have gone digital over the years, each step forward has required three things: affordability, access, and trust. Of these, trust…
Shiv Putcha, Principal Analyst at emerging tech specialists Mandala Insights, shares more insights from the Nokia event Global Analyst Forum. Recently, I had the opportunity to be in Finland to attend Nokia’s Global Analyst Forum. For those interested, my reflections on that event can be viewed here. As it turns…
Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Ban or no ban, Facebook wins in U.S. threats against TikTok, TikTok reportedly mulls corporate changes, California Consumer Privacy Act shatters attributable mobile advertising rates and much more… On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said…
Last month MEF’s Future of Messaging Programme launched its Securing A2P SMS Business Messaging Whitepaper developed by members of its Fraud & Security Working Group. The comprehensive guide makes best practice recommendations when using SMS for Two Factor Authentication and provides practical use cases. In this webinar, some of the…
MEF IoT Advisor Andrew Parkin-White explores the issues surrounding IoT security and how the Covid-19 virus will affect its development. With our members, MEF has been exploring IoT security and how it is key to growing the overall IoT ecosystem. The question is therefore, will IoT security become more of…
Get key insights from MEF’s 6th Global Smartphone User Survey – this week, looking at Mobile Fitness Apps. The promising market for health applications on smartphones has seen little growth (the survey did not include Covid-19 pandemic period). Tracing applications as well as other medical apps will possibly bring back…
In this guest post, fintech and digital finance specialists Mondato explore the role of cash in a post-COVID 19 society – does the pandemic spell the end of ‘traditional’ payments already under pressure from the growing digital payment sector? The death of cash has been foretold for years. Among other…
MEF CEO Dario Betti comments on news that the Zimbabwean government is stopping mobile payment services across the country. The assessment touches on the impact on one of the most developed mobile money markets in the world and provides lessons for the entire industry. The Ministry of Information of Zimbabwe…
Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news…OpenMarket, a global mobile messaging company, has launched indigo, a new type of mobile engagement platform designed to help businesses more easily and effectively communicate with their customers and employees. The cloud-based…
Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world.This week..India bans TikTok, WeChat and dozens more Chinese apps, vulnerability in some bitcoin wallets leads to double spend attacks, Zimbabwe moves to suspend mobile payments and much more. India’s government has banned TikTok and dozens more Chinese-made apps it…
Before the virus had an impact globally, we were seeing growth in IoT of up to 20% per year. Enterprises could see the clear value of IoT applications and adoption was on the increase. There was significant market potential and a high degree of confidence that 25m global IoT connections…
Rafael Pellon, MEF LatAm advisor and partner at Pellon de Lima Advogados shares insights from a recent webinar where Artificial Intelligence experts discussed the changing regulatory landscape around AI and what governments and regulators need to do to keep ahead, or even to keep up, with the technology. During such…
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