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News Roundup

Global Mobile news roundup, May 17th

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. WhatsApp hack fallout, carriers are finally stopping sale of location data, Japan to unify mobile payment codes, Vodafone is first UK mobile brand to announce 5G launch and much more. WhatsApp has confirmed that a security flaw…
Sam Hill
May 17, 2019
Enterprise CommunicationsInterviews

Member Interview: Routemobile

MEFTV speaks to Routemobile‘s Group CEO Rajdip Gupta and James Mills, CEO Americas, on their stand during MWC 2019, who explain their experience with RCS, their new business objectives as an omnichannel platform, and how their business is growing beyond messaging and communications. Discussing their RCS use cases and omnichannel…
Sam Hill
May 15, 2019
MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member News, May 13th

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… SAP has announced that it is expanding its app portfolio on both the iOS and Mac platform by utilising Apple’s on-device machine-learning technology. It will see Apple’s Core ML integrated into…
Sam Hill
May 13, 2019
Internet of Things

Member Interview: JT International

MEFTV speaks to Tom Noel, Managing Director of JT International at the Cellular IoT panel held during MWC 2019, where he describes some of the discussions of the panel, and the opportunities presented by cellular IoT. “We talked at length about the responsibility we have as providers to protect the…
Sam Hill
May 9, 2019
Interviews

Member Interview: Sundi Sundaresh, Cinarra

MEFTV speaks to Sundi Sundaresh, President & CEO of Cinarra who among other things discussed the challenges of handling consumer’s personal data responsibly – we asked how the landscape has changed for businesses in light of new regulation such as GDPR: “Interestingly the landscape hasn’t changed for us very much,…
Sam Hill
May 8, 2019
Enterprise Communications

RCS traffic to grow 290% annually by 2023

A new study from Juniper Research claims rich communications suite (RCS) traffic will have an average annual growth of 290% over the next four years. The new Juniper Research – A2P Messaging: SMS, RCS & OTT Business Messaging 2019-2023 – forecast that the rich media interactivity of RCS would make…
Sam Hill
May 7, 2019
News Roundup

Global Mobile news roundup, May 3rd

This week.. Facebook pivots to privacy, Google can now automatically delete your activity data, the sim swap the US isn’t using and much more. Facebook has announced a ‘fundamental shift’ in how it is develops products with privacy in mind, unveiling a series of changes that will likely push brands…
Sam Hill
May 3, 2019
Enterprise CommunicationsInterviews

Adding Value to the SMS Conversation

Ira Cohen, VP of Business Development and Marketing, MMDSmart outlines how SMS is sorely underused by many marketing managers and agencies, and how the industry needs to reemephasise its immense value if new technologies like RCS are going to thrive. There’s a disturbing trend going on in the digital marketing…
Sam Hill
May 1, 2019
MEF