Last month in Atlanta at ITW 2019, the global wholesale event, MEF’s Future of Messaging Programme hosted a series of events on Rich Communications. Here MEF’s COO Joanne Lacey and speakers from the workshop share their takeaways.
MEFJuly 18, 2019
RCS @ ITW2019: Best Practices, Good Intentions, Hard Work
Last month in Atlanta at ITW 2019, the global wholesale event, MEF’s Future of Messaging Programme hosted a series of events on Rich Communications. Here MEF’s COO Joanne Lacey and speakers from the workshop share their takeaways.Read More »
Internet of Cars: Connectivity Standardisation In a Jam
MEF Advisor Andrew Parkin-White examines the current thinking on connectivity for autonomous cars and vehicles, and explores why the delays in progress now might benefit the industry in the long term. Autonomous vehicles will feature strongly in future global transportation trends. Regulators were promising a new standard to vehicle to vehicle connectivity for mid 2019,Read More »
IoT @ ITW2019: Telco New Approaches Required
MEF Briefing: UK Regulator gives 6 months to restructure personal data sharing in programmatic media
MEF Briefing: Brazil is cancelling ban on A2P SMS
ITW Atlanta 2019 – Don’t forget: Telecoms is big business
The death of loyalty, the rise of relevance: a fireside chat with Sinch Engage’s Matt Ramerman
Facebank: 7 key facts to understand how Libra could change payments
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Global app install ad spend could hit $51 billion this year. Fraudsters want some of that money. Regrettably, they will succeed. Is there anything the industry can do to defend itself? In a MEF webinar, two experts from Oordeoo and Freenet Digital assess the scale of the problem and the…
Marketers can’t buy customer loyalty any longer. They have to earn it with excellent customer experiences. They can do this with hyper-personalised mobile video, as Sinch Engage’s Matt Ramerman explained in a MEF webinar… In marketing circles, all the talk is of personalisation. There’s a sense that the era of…
The Mobile IoT market is set for rapid growth over the coming years and providers are concentrating more on rapid widescale deployment with security often being a later consideration. This is not a tenable position as IoT applications can be mission critical and security needs to be at the forefront…
Industry stakeholders are fighting a war against spam and other traffic that undermines the messaging channel. Their traditional weapons are firewalls and filters. Could artificial intelligence offer a new line of defence? MEF convened a webinar to discuss the topic. In his book, The Inevitable, Kevin Kelly talks vividly about…
Is RCS the future of enterprise messaging? Can it stay free of spam? And why is messaging the best option for workplace collaboration? Oscar Gallego, Global Head of Smart Communication & Security at Vodafone, shares his views.
MEFTV speaks to Sethu Meenakshisundaram, SAP Digital Interconnect president, who explains how intelligent interconnectivity, multichannel engagement, and operator optimization solutions enable the Experience Economy and SAP’s “X+O” strategy to help connect everyone, everything, everywhere.
In a recent report, PWC argued that messaging bots could play a role in transforming customer service. The consultancy is a firm believer in the port of enterprise messaging. In an exclusive video for MEF and Infinite Convergence, Dori Gurwitz, managing director of PWC New York, explained more… Last year,…
Why are some of the world’s biggest companies using public messaging apps to transmit sensitive personal data? Sven Sziedat, Head of Mobile Enterprise Services at T-Systems International, shares his experience and ponders the alternatives in this exclusive Future of Messaging series video supported by Infinite Convergence. Many people are concerned…
Last month in Atlanta at ITW 2019, the global wholesale event, MEF’s Future of Messaging Programme hosted a series of events on Rich Communications. Here MEF’s COO Joanne Lacey and speakers from the workshop share their takeaways.
On the 6th of June 2019, the Brazilian Congress approved a Bill of Law that forbids MNOs to send any kind of “commercial messages” to its customers in the Brazilian territory, effectively immediately once the legislation is passed by the Senate. There’s no definition on what should be considered as…
MEF CEO Dario Betti shares his key takeaways from the recent International Telecom Week in Atlanta touching on the state of A2P, the role of Africa in the global market and discovering that the rumours of Telecom’s demise are greatly exaggerated. The public might be excused for thinking of telecom…
Marketers can’t buy customer loyalty any longer. They have to earn it with excellent customer experiences. They can do this with hyper-personalised mobile video, as Sinch Engage’s Matt Ramerman explained in a MEF webinar… In marketing circles, all the talk is of personalisation. There’s a sense that the era of…
MEF Briefing: UK Regulator gives 6 months to restructure personal data sharing in programmatic media
The Information Commissioner’s Officer (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection, is giving 6 months to adtech companies for adjusting the process of data sharing in real time biding (RTB), programmatic advertising. The analysis from ICO shows that sensitive personal information is shared by some advertising players, without securing approval…
Here are seven key points from MEF on what the recent announcement from Facebook on mobile payments means for the industry and customers. Facebook announced Calibra in June 2019, a new subsidiary to provide financial services via the Libra Network – Facebook is becoming a bank and using a blockchain…
Michael Becker, co-author of the MEF consumer Trust Report reflects on the first year of the GDPR and takes a detailed look at the impact it has had across the ecosystem globally. May 25th marked the one-year anniversary of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), a tsunami that washed on…
William Dudley, mobile evangelist and strategist for SAP Mobile Services: Industry & LoB Products concludes his discussion of Strong Customer Authentication in the EU. We’ve reached the third and final installment of this series. In the first installment, we introduced the European Union’s European Banking Authority (or EBA) directive called…
We asked MEF Members and industry insiders to shine the spotlight on mobile ad fraud and ask what should the industry be doing to combat the fraudsters? one of the biggest challenges to mobile advertising growth has been invalid traffic and mobile ad fraud such as fake installs and click…
This Saturday the 25th of May marks one year since the launch of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation which introduced new rules for how businesses handle consumer's personal data. We asked MEF Members from across the mobile value chain to share their thoughts on GDPR's first year; how has…
MEF recently launched it’s new Trust in Enterprise Messaging (TEM) service backed by an industry Code of Conduct for A2P (Applications to Person) SMS in collaboration with 30+ participants of MEF’s Future of Messaging Programme, that includes MNOs, messaging companies and signalling providers. The new service is self-regulatory – its…
A new breed of fintech startups with an innovative business model are attempting to take advantage of customer’s unused, ‘limitless’ text message contracts, leveraging them as an integral part of blockchain ventures, allowing users to essentially resell messages that would be wasted. From one perspective, such services make use of…
MEF Advisor Andrew Parkin-White examines the current thinking on connectivity for autonomous cars and vehicles, and explores why the delays in progress now might benefit the industry in the long term. Autonomous vehicles will feature strongly in future global transportation trends. Regulators were promising a new standard to vehicle to…
MEF Advisor Andrew Parkin-White reflects on the discussions on IoT held during ITW Atlanta, and how the market is developing. At the 2019 International Telecom Week (ITW) in Atlanta IoT was a common topic of discussion. This might surprise some: ITW is a wholesale event and it rarely covers ‘service…
The Mobile IoT market is set for rapid growth over the coming years and providers are concentrating more on rapid widescale deployment with security often being a later consideration. This is not a tenable position as IoT applications can be mission critical and security needs to be at the forefront…
Angel Dobardziev, Director at independent research consultancy WhiteBridge Insight, shares his key takeaways from IoT World and what the exhibition and debates on the show tell us about the future of the IoT space. The recent IoT World event in Silicon Valley was very insightful. The IoT enabling technologies we…
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 our 5 minutes with profiles, MEF members talk about their business, their aspirations for the future and the wider mobile industry. This week, Joseph Njel Nguidjol introduces VAS specialist NEXAH. NEXAH is a Value-Added Services company based in Cameroon in Africa. We are specialized in building Value-Added Services for…
In our 5 minutes with profiles, MEF members talk about their business, their aspirations for the future and the wider mobile industry. This week, Dr. Piet Streicher, MD of BulkSMS.com. BulkSMS is a global A2P SMS messaging service provider offering innovative solutions, enabling our customers to communicate their short and…
In our ‘5 minutes with’ profiles, MEF members talk about their business, their aspirations for the future and the wider mobile industry. This week, Florian Lichtwald, SVP of Global Telecom and Data Partnerships introduces zeotap. We unite the world’s most valuable data especially from telecom operators to enable the world’s…
Basebone CMO Benito Alvarez discusses the importance of carrier billing in its strategy, and the opportunities and challenges around Baseplay, its suite of digital content services for emerging markets. In emerging markets where the average amount a user can pay for content can be seen as comparatively low, it can…
MEF is an official partner of the HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Conference 2019 which aims to bring together the entirety of the digital healthcare ecosystem: from hospital C-level decision makers to clinicians, nurses, payers, life science, and technology innovators. Two of the key mobile ecosystem topics at the events…
Caroline McClelland Kumulos Marketing Manager at mobile app management specialists Kumulos explores how to execute successful proximity marketing campaigns, and offers 6 key benefits the medium offers. One of the most effective ways to gain a competitive edge when it comes to mobile marketing is now proximity marketing. Why proximity…
Mr. Rajdipkumar Gupta, Managing Director & Group Chief Executive Officer at Route Mobile Limited discusses the future role of artificial intelligence in the technological landscape, and in particular its influence on the evolution of cloud communications. Thanks to sci-fi films, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not an alien concept. Although, it’s…
MEF Advisor Andrew Parkin-White examines the current thinking on connectivity for autonomous cars and vehicles, and explores why the delays in progress now might benefit the industry in the long term. Autonomous vehicles will feature strongly in future global transportation trends. Regulators were promising a new standard to vehicle to…
MEFJuly 17, 2019
Global app install ad spend could hit $51 billion this year. Fraudsters want some of that money. Regrettably, they will succeed. Is there anything the industry can do to defend itself? In a MEF webinar, two experts from Oordeoo and Freenet Digital assess the scale of the problem and the…
MEFJuly 17, 2019
Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… mGage, a Vivial company and Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced today that it has integrated with the Oracle Responsys SMS Public Aggregator Network (SPAN) to provide an easier…
MEFJuly 15, 2019
Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world.This week.. Google workers listen to your “OK Google” queries, US authority demands Facebook puts Libra on ice, Amazon becomes the fastest-growing music streaming service… Google today defended its practice of having workers listen to users’ Google Assistant queries, following…
MEFJuly 12, 2019
MEF Advisor Andrew Parkin-White reflects on the discussions on IoT held during ITW Atlanta, and how the market is developing. At the 2019 International Telecom Week (ITW) in Atlanta IoT was a common topic of discussion. This might surprise some: ITW is a wholesale event and it rarely covers ‘service…
MEFJuly 10, 2019
MEF Briefing: UK Regulator gives 6 months to restructure personal data sharing in programmatic media
The Information Commissioner’s Officer (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection, is giving 6 months to adtech companies for adjusting the process of data sharing in real time biding (RTB), programmatic advertising. The analysis from ICO shows that sensitive personal information is shared by some advertising players, without securing approval…
MEFJuly 9, 2019
On the 6th of June 2019, the Brazilian Congress approved a Bill of Law that forbids MNOs to send any kind of “commercial messages” to its customers in the Brazilian territory, effectively immediately once the legislation is passed by the Senate. There’s no definition on what should be considered as…
MEFJuly 8, 2019
Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. US Congress asks Facebook to pause development of Libra, Vodafone’s 5G network is now live in seven UK cities, NowSecure raises $15 million for app privacy testing, Firefox reinvents its Android app and much more… The US…
MEFJuly 5, 2019
MEF CEO Dario Betti shares his key takeaways from the recent International Telecom Week in Atlanta touching on the state of A2P, the role of Africa in the global market and discovering that the rumours of Telecom’s demise are greatly exaggerated. The public might be excused for thinking of telecom…
MEFJuly 4, 2019