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News Roundup

Global mobile news round-up, November 22nd

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Spain starts tracking mobiles but denies spying, Most web users want the web to be more ‘privacy-oriented’, Apple condemns German rule change on mobile payments and much more. Millions of Spanish mobile phone users are being tracked…
Sam Hill
November 22, 2019
Enterprise Communications

MEF Roundtable explores A2P RCS in Italy

Iain McCallum, mobile industry veteran and MEF Advisor shares discussions from the recent MEF Future of Messaging RCS Round table in Verona, held in association with MEF Member rdcom. At the event, members of the MEF Messaging Working Group gathered with Italian MNO’s, enterprises and digital advertising agencies to discuss…
Iain McCallum
November 19, 2019
MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member News Round-up, November 18th

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… GMS is pleased to inform that starting from October 15th, it acts as a one-way direct hub for outgoing A2P traffic, as well as a two-way direct P2P hub for Turkcell…
Sam Hill
November 18, 2019
Enterprise Communications

Consumers: ‘more mobile messaging please’

Do consumers want brands to message them? Yes. Are brands responding? Not nearly enough. So says Sinch’s new Mobile Consumer Engagement 2020 report. Tim Green dug into the findings. It’s a great time to be alive and in marketing. The era of hit-and-hope consumer segmentation is coming to an end.
Sam Hill
November 15, 2019
News Roundup

Global mobile news round-up, November 15th

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Google to roll out its own RCS chat system, China’s privacy challenges with AI and mobile apps, how mobile phones are changing personal finance across Africa and much more. Will RCS ever matter? The standard has been…
Sam Hill
November 15, 2019
Event Roundup

MEF @ ACC: Telecoms in Asia – the rising digital models

The 15th edition of Asia Carriers Conference recently took place in the Philippines, and was a good opportunity for MEF to touch base with an important market. The Asian Telecom market is growing: local companies are becoming bellwether players globally, and global companies are looking at Asia with interest if…
Sam Hill
November 13, 2019
MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member News Round-up, November 11th

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… At the AfricaCom international congress, Orange (Orange.com) is partnering with itel (itel-mobile.com), the leading mobile brand in Africa and, once again, with KaiOS Technologies, maker of the leading operating system for…
Sam Hill
November 11, 2019
News Roundup

Global mobile news round-up, November 8th

This week..  users fear for privacy after Google buys Fitbit, California accuses Facebook of ignoring subpoenas, PayPal plans to make an in-store mobile payments push, 7 Ways AI Reduces Mobile Fraud and much more. Google’s recent acquisition of Fitbit for $2.1bn has left many users worried the tech giant may…
Sam Hill
November 8, 2019
MEF