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MEF Member News Roundup, December 2nd

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… Network expansion by BICS increases capacity tenfold before 2020 Tokyo Games surge in mobile roaming BICS, an international communications enabler, has announced a major upgrade and expansion of its backbone in…

MEFDecember 2, 2019

Content & Advertising Guest blog Messaging Channels

State Of the Bots: Crossing the Chasm to Success!

Yoav Barel is an expert on Conversational AI as well as the founder and CEO of Chatbot Summit & Voice Summit. In this guest post, he shares insights into how after the hype of chat bots faded, the industry now faced the long road to mass market adoption, and why…

MEFNovember 29, 2019

News Roundup

Global Mobile News Roundup, November 29th

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world.This week.. Apple’s privacy os changes seen as effort to edge out rivals, EU stuck on messaging app privacy rules, Facebook launches new market research app and much more. Apple has made strengthening privacy protections a central part of its…

MEFNovember 29, 2019

Connectivity & Wholesale

MEF Connects IoT: Is the IoT roaming market meeting the needs of global customers?

At the recent MEF Connects 2019 event in London, Matt Hatton, former CEO of Machina Research and ex Gartner analyst explored the issues around IoT roaming with a panel of experts comprising Luc Vidal-Madjar of BICS, Ben Bannister of Tata Communications and Graham Hart-Ives of JT Global. MEF Advisor Andrew…

Andrew Parkin-WhiteNovember 28, 2019

Content & Advertising Messaging Channels

AfricaCom: will 5G be the Black Panther for African Telecom?

Dario Betti reports from AfricaCom, the largest telecom event of the year with a focus on the African continent. At the conference, talk about the 5G revolution was omnipresent, but the real story was about the continent’s infrastructure (including 2G,3G and 4G) and sub-optimal availability of frequencies. While the quality…

Dario BettiNovember 27, 2019

MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member News Round-up, November 25th

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… Infobip has enabled WhatsApp Business API for ChatFin, which recently introduced its ChatBack platform ChatBack. The platform simplifies consumers everyday tasks by providing rich content customer dialogue over WhatsApp delivering the…

MEFNovember 25, 2019

Content & Advertising

Why TikTok is everywhere – including Mad//Fest 2019

ByteDance’s video sharing app is now installed on 1.5 billion phones. Meanwhile its ad sales execs are installed at digital marketing events such as Mad//Fest in London. Tim Green digs into a mobile phenomenon. In the last few weeks, I have attended two London events on behalf of MEF: the…

Tim GreenNovember 22, 2019

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…

MEFNovember 22, 2019

Messaging Channels

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 McCallumNovember 19, 2019