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MEF Member News Round-up, June 29th

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… Mavenir, the industry’s only end-to-end, cloud-native Network Software Provider and a leader in messaging and Rich Communication Services (RCS) today announced its Mobile Business Messaging Cloud in Europe completed peer-to-peer (P2P)…

MEFJune 29, 2020

News Roundup

Global Mobile News Round-up, June 26th

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Apple’s Latest Privacy Announcement Could Be More Impactful than CCPA or GDPR, coronavirus contact tracing apps doomed to fail in America? Brazil suspends WhatsApp’s payments service and much more… Apple did not outright kill its key mobile…

MEFJune 26, 2020

Messaging Channels

COVID 19: a SMiShing Paradise

In this guest blog, Michael Bordash, GM & CTO, Machine Learning / Messaging at RealNetworks explains how and why the Covid-19 pandemic is the perfect cover for fraudulent SMS scams, and what users can do to protect themselves. Observing messaging behaviors over the years, we see recurring techniques criminals employ…

MEFJune 25, 2020

Content & Advertising MEF Data

MEF Data: Mobile Fitness Apps – no real growth in the market

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…

MEFJune 24, 2020

Content & Advertising Opinion

More mobile mergers to be allowed in the EU

MEF regulatory advisor Serafino Abate looks at the EU General Court’s recent decision taking apart the approach of the Directorate-General for Competition on mobile operators mergers. The number of networks competing in a market could lower from 4 to 3. Should we expect more mobile mergers and what could it…

MEFJune 24, 2020

MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member News Round-up, June 22nd

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… Boku, a leading global mobile payment and mobile identity company, is pleased to announce that it has conditionally agreed to acquire the entire issued and to be issued share capital of…

MEFJune 22, 2020

News Roundup

Global Mobile News round-up, June 19th

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. UK switches COVID-19 contact tracing app to Apple and Google framework, Norway suspends virus-tracing app due to privacy concerns, mobile data traffic in sub-Saharan Africa to grow 12 times by 2025 and much more… The UK is…

MEFJune 19, 2020

Mobile Evolution Payments & Commerce Podcasts

Blockchain Podcast: Is regulation finally catching up with technology?

Continuing our series of Podcasts to discuss the role of Blockchain in the mobile world Daniele Mensi, MEF Advisor and Dario Betti, MEF CEO discuss the difference between hype and the real potential of this new technology in the mobile and wireless world. In this edition, Dario and Daniele explore…

MEFJune 18, 2020

Content & Advertising MEF Data

MEF Data: Global Digital content consumption at peak maturity

The most common digital service category among mobile users remains digital content. However, the content area appears to have reached a plateau with no increase in penetration from the previous year. Brazil has the most users accessing film and music via smartphones (69%). France is the number two country in…

MEFJune 17, 2020

Interviews Messaging Channels

Industry views: A collaborative approach to tackling Smishing

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…