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Spotlight on Syniverse

Every day Syniverse talks to enterprises and brands. Hundreds of them. In fact, the ‘global transaction processor’ connects more than 1,500 companies in nearly 200 countries. MEF spoke to CMO Mary Clark about the importance of trust, security and privacy in the brand consumer relationship.
Tim Green
June 2, 2016
5 minutes with

5 Minutes with… Digi.me

In our 5 minutes with profiles, MEF members talk about their business, their aspirations for the future and the wider mobile industry. This week Founder and Executive Chairman Julian Ranger introduces Digi.me What does Digi.me do? Digi.me enables the Internet of Me, where the individual is at the centre of…
Sam Hill
June 2, 2016
Stats Roundup

Mobile market stats round-up: May 31

How many minutes of mobile video do Americans consumer every day? What is happening to the market for mobile accessories? Where do Chinese people buy their smartphones? You’ll find the answers to these and many more mobile data related questions in this week’s MEF market stats round up… Soaring demand…
Sam Hill
May 31, 2016
MEF LatAmRegulation

MEF Connects Brazil in pictures

MEF recently hosted its largest LatAm event to date: MEF Connects Brazil, held during Tela Viva Móvel, supported by Movile and Digital Virgo. Over 130 senior executives from 60 companies representing the mobile ecosystem in Latin America got together for the business networking event. We partnered with Tela Viva Móvel,…
Sam Hill
May 30, 2016
News Roundup

Weekly mobile news round-up: 27 May

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Microsoft backs away from smartphone business, Tim Cook on Iphone's expense in India, fraud in gaming costs $6.3bil and much more. Microsoft is signalling the end of its Nokia experiment today. After acquiring Nokia's phone business for…
Sam Hill
May 27, 2016
Enterprise CommunicationsIndustry Views

Industry views: A2P messaging and fraud

Last week MEF published the A2P Messaging Fraud Framework – the first release from its new industry programme The Future of Messaging. It identifies 11 distinct fraud types that impact the global messaging business today. The Future of Messaging Working Group consists of 25 founding members including mobile operators, messaging…
Sam Hill
May 26, 2016
Enterprise CommunicationsInterviewsPrivacy

Spotlight on: Hiya

The best way to fight back against phishing is to help people to know they are being phished. So says Stanley Kim, general manager of communications experience at Hiya. He talked to MEF about the power of ‘caller ID’ to combat phone spam… Last summer, a study revealed that email…
Tim Green
May 25, 2016
MEF AsiaMEFTV

Views from the showfloor: MEFTV at GMIC Beijing

MEF Minute was at this year's Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing among the 25,000 mobile industry executives, entrepreneurs, developers and investors on the show floor over 3 days. We asked exhibiting MEF members and speakers from our own MEF Connects China event held just before GMIC, including Google and…
Sam Hill
May 25, 2016
Enterprise Communications

Don’t forget about good old SMS!

Fresh from her recent talk at the B2B Marketing Expo on how to leverage SMS to make you a smarter marketer, Gillian Hughes, Vice President of Corporate Sales at Veoo shares her thoughts on the renaissance of SMS and how it is proving to be an effective channel for many…
Sam Hill
May 24, 2016
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