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The digital response to COVID-19

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…

Iain McCallumJune 16, 2020

MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member News, June 15th

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… Global customer intelligence platform zeotap today announces the launch of ID+, its universal identity initiative that aims to empower the marketing ecosystem to overcome challenges posed by the demise of third-party…

MEFJune 15, 2020

News Roundup

Global Mobile News Round-up, June 12th

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. FCC seeks record fine against alleged scam operators, all mobile networks vulnerable to DoS, impersonation and fraud, TikTok’s Data Privacy Policies Draw Eyes Of EU and much more. The US government is seeking fines of up to…

MEFJune 12, 2020

Mobile Evolution Payments & Commerce Podcasts

Blockchain Podcast: Telegram ends its Blockchain Dream

In this edition, Dario and Daniele discuss the apparent final chapter in the story of messaging powerhouse Telegram’s attempt to create a blockchain payment currency for it’s messaging app, and what its failure to get off the ground can teach the wider blockchain industry.

MEFJune 11, 2020

Connectivity & Wholesale ID & Data

Five key points to think about with an Identity of Things solution

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…

MEFJune 11, 2020

Content & Advertising MEF Data Payments & Commerce

MEF Data: Mobile Banking sees big jump in user penetration

Get key insights from MEF’s 6th Global Smartphone User Survey – this week, looking at Mobile Banking worldwide. Mobile Banking has seen a big jump in penetration of its services (and that was before the impact of the COVID19 pandemic). Users in developing economies are generally the most active. Presumably,…

MEFJune 10, 2020

Messaging Channels

MEF RCS Best Practice Guidelines V2 – whats new?

MEF’s RCS Business Messaging Best Practices make recommendations how best to implement business messaging campaigns via RCS in order to support industry alignment and market adoption. Here, David O’ Byrne author of the guidelines shares his views on the outlook for RCS following our recent online briefing on v2.0 of…

MEFJune 9, 2020

MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member News Round-up, 8th June

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… Sinch AB, a global leader in cloud communications for mobile customer engagement, has been named the number one innovator among 50 companies judged for The Innovators Report 2020, published by the…

MEFJune 8, 2020

News Roundup

Global Mobile News Round-up, June 5th

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Coronavirus contact tracing apps face consistency challenges, how mobile phone markets are defying predictions of doom, Signal app downloads spike as US protesters seek message encryption and much more… The promise of contact-tracing apps is that —…

MEFJune 5, 2020

MEF Webinars & Workshops

All change at the omnichannel contact centre – 11 big takeaways

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…

MEFJune 4, 2020