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2011 Mobile Money Forum – Event Summary

Anant Tailor June 23, 2011

2011 Mobile Money Forum – Event SummaryThe 2nd annual Mobile Money Forum hosted by Neotelis took place earlier this week on June 21st and 22nd at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Montreal. The folks at Neotelis did a fabulous job of pulling together key participants from within the Canadian Mobile Money ecosystem as well as experts from other parts of the world. The conference spanned two full days and covered key Mobile Money topics including Mobile Commerce, Mobile & Contactless Payments, Mobile Wallets, and Mobile Money Transfer.The following are some common themes that arose in several of the sessions: Mobile Contactless ...

Mobile Money Canada - Calling all Speakers!

Anant Tailor April 27, 2010

As you may have seen, the date for Mobile Money Canada 2010 has been set for September 21st and our plans for the event are in full gear! We have already received an overwhelming response from interested attendees and are quickly filling spots, so if you're hoping to attend the event this year, please register early to avoid disappointment. You can submit your registration here. In an effort to once again cover a wide array of applicable topics and draw upon practical experience from across the industry, we are reaching out to interested parties to submit a speaking proposal at this ...

2 Additional Challenges in Testing a Mobile Money Transfer Solution

Anant Tailor April 20, 2010

In response to my previous blog '5 Common Challenges in Testing a Mobile Money Transfer Solution', I received several emails about challenges and hurdles that others have encountered while performing testing of their mobile money transfer solutions. Thanks to all that took the time to share their experience! Below are 2 additional recurring themes that came out of the responses that I received. These may prove helpful to those of you who are in the heat of delivery. The first one builds upon one of my previous items, but it further illustrates the particular challenge in such a tricky integration ...

5 Common Challenges in Testing a Mobile Money Transfer Solution

Anant Tailor March 31, 2010

Over the recent few weeks, I have been asked for my thoughts on some of the most common challenges or hurdles to overcome during the testing phase of a Mobile Money Transfer Solution deployment. As such, I thought that many of you would benefit from this list as well. As most of you know, a mobile money transfer solution is made up of several applications and back-office systems working together to deliver the service literally into the hands of the customer. As such, many of the testing complexities stem from this very fact; at it's most basic level, mobile money transfer ...

Mobile Advertising Rewards - A new way for MNO's to attract subscribers?

Anant Tailor March 26, 2010

A company named 'MyScreen' recently landed a deal with Latin America's largest mobile operator, America Movil to launch an advertising service with carriers in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. MyScreen provides a service that shows a full-screen mobile advertisement each time a subscriber completes a call.Â The user can click on the ad to learn more or press 'End' to exit the advertisement. For viewing the ad, the subscriber will be rewarded (e.g.. 10 Free Text Messages for every ad viewed), therefore providing an incentive to view as many ads as possible.Â The MyScreen platform has the ability to impose limits ...

Verizon enters the Mobile Payments Space

Anant Tailor March 24, 2010

Verizon has just announced that it will enter the mobile payments space by offering its consumers the ability to pay for online goods and content by effectively 'billing' the items to their mobile phone account. All items purchased in this manner will appear on their post-paid phone bill, which they will pay as per current processes. Verizon is offering the service through Danal Inc's BilltoMobile payment service, providing Verizon's customers with immediate access to content and goods sold through Danal's network of eCommerce merchant partners. With Verizon entering this space, providing this form of payments to their large customer base, this ...

Mobile Coupons Gaining Momentum

Anant Tailor March 11, 2010

Many of you have likely seen that Target recently announced the launch of their mobile coupon program, enabling consumers to view and redeem coupons using their mobile phone.Â While it will take some time to determine the relative success of this initiative, one thing is certain - the roll-out of mobile coupons by a large retailer such as Target will help to push Mobile Coupons into a mainstream adoption phase for consumers.Â Hopefully, the user experience is positive since it will no doubt influence consumer perceptions of mobile coupons in general.Â Other retailers will no doubt follow suit and roll ...

New Mobile Operating Systems - Complicating the landscape for application developers

Anant Tailor March 3, 2010

While at the GSMA MWC the other week, I had the opportunity to check out two of the new mobile platforms that were unveiled - Samsung's Bada, and Microsoft's Windows Phone 7.Â Both platforms looked to be quite impressive, and I'm certain that their release has created much excitement amongst developers that are eager to get started on building new apps for these platforms.Â However, while the release of new platforms is exciting to some, I'm almost certain that it spells nightmare and confusion for those on the business side that are looking to reach a wide target market through ...

OneAPI will solidify a place in the Mobile Payment value chain for Mobile Operators

Anant Tailor March 1, 2010

Up until now, the question has been "How can a mobile operator help me accept payments from mobile subscribers"? Collecting payments for applications & services via operator billing systems has always been an attractive proposition for application & service providers since it leverages the operator's existing relationship with the customer, and simplifies the process for all parties involved.Â Â However, the thought of attempting to integrate with even one operator can be overwhelming in itself, let alone looking at integrating with the multiple operators required in order to truly enable this form of payment within a given region. Â Some businesses such ...

Google’s Nexus One – What does this mean for the Mobile Operators?

Anant Tailor December 17, 2009

As many of you already know, it has been confirmed.Google will be releasing its own smartphone – due to hit the market in the new year. Google has decided to bring the phone to market outside the constraints of a particular carrier. They will sell it as an unlocked phone, creating a freedom of choice in mobile service that is rare amongst North American consumers who purchase smartphones. So what does this mean for the operators? With Google taking the first step that some are dubbing as ‘risky’, it will be interesting to see how this changes consumer behaviour and their ...

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RBC, CIBC, & Visa to headline the 3rd Annual Mobile Money Canada Conference, Sept 27th 2011 in Toronto

Brent Ho-Young 09.06.2011

RBC, CIBC, & Visa to headline the Mobile Banking Track at the 3rd Annual Mobile Money Canada Conference, Sept 27th 2011 in Toronto Canada.Executives from leading Canadian providers of Mobile Financial services, RBC, CIBC, and Visa will headline the 3rd Annual Mobile Money Canada Conference’s Mobile Banking track. Mobile Money Canada ...

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11.24.2011

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