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News Roundup

Global Mobile News roundup, July 26th

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Apple is buying Intel’s mobile chip business, Utah County to pilot blockchain-based mobile voting, FaceApp makes privacy laws look antiquated… and much more… While some of technology’s other giants were getting ready to extol the virtues of…

MEFJuly 26, 2019

Connectivity & Wholesale Content & Advertising

MWC Shangai: 8 5G Innovations from China

Shiv Putcha, Principal Analyst at emerging tech specialists Mandala Insights, continues his series of posts from MWC Shanghai, here sharing 8 key use case examples of 5G innovations from the show, and discusses why China is ahead of the curve when it comes to 5G deployments.

MEFJuly 25, 2019

Messaging Channels

The pathway to payment in RCS has started

The multimedia evolution of the SMS messaging format (RCS) is getting much of the telecom world to review existing models and businesses for enterprise communication. Recently, the first trials of mobile payment in RCS have been launched, generating plenty of interest. The potential of friction-free transactions and interactive messaging could…

MEFJuly 24, 2019

ID & Data

Infographic: Understanding the revised PSD2

The EU’s Payment Services Directive (PSD2) gets an update in September with the introduction of new Secure Customer Authentication (SCA) requirements. Here MEF Member JT International share a handy infographic to remind us of the background to the PSD2 and what the new updates mean for businesses.

MEFJuly 22, 2019

Connectivity & Wholesale Content & Advertising Opinion

MWC Shangai – 5G is in China, and it will be big

Shiv Putcha, Principal Analyst at emerging tech specialists Mandala Insights, shares impressions from MWC Shanghai on the momentum of 5G in the Chinese market, and concludes that the hype is real. In a previous post about the flagship MWC event in Barcelona, I had opined that it was impossible to leave…

MEFJuly 19, 2019

Messaging Channels

RCS @ ITW2019: Best Practices, Good Intentions, Hard Work

Last month in Atlanta at ITW 2019, the global wholesale event, MEF’s Future of Messaging Programme hosted a series of events on Rich Communications. Here MEF’s COO Joanne Lacey and speakers from the workshop share their takeaways.

MEFJuly 18, 2019

Connectivity & Wholesale

Internet of Cars: Connectivity Standardisation In a Jam

MEF Advisor Andrew Parkin-White examines the current thinking on connectivity for autonomous cars and vehicles, and explores why the delays in progress now might benefit the industry in the long term. Autonomous vehicles will feature strongly in future global transportation trends. Regulators were promising a new standard to vehicle to…

MEFJuly 17, 2019

Content & Advertising MEF Webinars & Workshops

Mobile ad fraud: the scale of the problem, the nature of the scams, the fightback

Global app install ad spend could hit $51 billion this year. Fraudsters want some of that money. Regrettably, they will succeed. Is there anything the industry can do to defend itself? In a MEF webinar, two experts from Oordeoo and Freenet Digital assess the scale of the problem and the…

MEFJuly 17, 2019

MEF Member News round-up

MEF Member news, 15th July

Get the latest announcements from MEF Members across the mobile ecosystem globally in this weekly review of member news… mGage, a Vivial company and Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced today that it has integrated with the Oracle Responsys SMS Public Aggregator Network (SPAN) to provide an easier…

MEFJuly 15, 2019