Page 139 – MEF

Digital Gap: older women are left out of the Smartphone Economy

It is time to act on inclusion: the mobile industry is leaving behind an important part of the population: the older, and older women in particular. The recently published MEF 6th Global Smartphone User Survey showed the digital gap is wide for gender and age. While 94% of 16-to-24-year-olds have…

Dario BettiJune 3, 2020

Interviews Messaging Channels

Telefonica discusses MEF’s A2P SMS Code of Conduct

MEF’s A2P SMS Code of Conduct helps drive self-regulation and best practice in business messaging. Here, MEF’s COO Joanne Lacey and Future of Messaging Programme lead speaks to Telefonica’s Head of Business Messaging for LatAm, Mitchell Cutmore about how Telefonica is using the Code and its potential impact in the…

MEFJune 2, 2020

MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member News, June 1st

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… The phone number provides invaluable information for businesses to better assess risk, mitigate fraud and protect both their business and their customers. A new report in Black Swan Telecom Journal explains…

MEFJune 1, 2020

News Roundup

Global Mobile News Round-up, May 29th

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. The covid-19 crisis is boosting mobile money, IoT, are immunity passports threatening privacy? Facebook experiments with voice calling app, Australian mobile companies work with police to prevent 5G arson attacks and much more. The story of mobile…

MEFMay 29, 2020

Content & Advertising

Is the lack of clear regulation hindering AI-powered technological progress?

MEF regulatory advisor Serafino Abate shares conclusions from recent discussion held by Members at a workshop on the possibilities and challenges of artificial intelligence and its regulation. In recent months, we have heard many calls for regulators, legislators and policy makers to get their act together and come up with…

MEFMay 28, 2020

Connectivity & Wholesale Mobile Evolution Payments & Commerce Podcasts

Blockchain Podcast: Syniverse and the connected future

In this episode Daniele speaks to Anna Gussman, Senior Director Customer Products and Industry Relations at MEF Member Syniverse about how they view blockchain technology and how they expect to use it and other innovations like 5G and the IoT to enhance and evolve the mobile ecosystem, and how we…

MEFMay 27, 2020

Connectivity & Wholesale MEF Webinars & Workshops

MEF IoT Roundtable part 3: the identity of things

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…

Andrew Parkin-WhiteMay 26, 2020

MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member News round-up, May 25th

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… The universal app alert, since we no longer phone each other: the beep and the red dot that says you have an SMS message. But these days it’s more likely to…

MEFMay 25, 2020

News Roundup

Global Mobile News round-up, May 22nd

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Apple and Google release phone technology to notify users of coronavirus exposure, Nokia Claims “World Record” Live 5G Mobile Speed of 4.7Gbps, how mobile enterprise tech can help startups weather the Covid-19 crisis and much more… Apple…

MEFMay 22, 2020

5 minutes with Interviews

5 minutes with… FireText

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.…