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Mobile payments at Facebook include carrier billing

11/20/201211/19/2012 Stephanie Beck

The social network hopes the new agreement with Orange France and Bango will boost its ability to monetize. Leading social network, Facebook, has announced its latest mobile payments news with its new steps to accept payments in France for its virtual services such as game credits and gifts in its content based on HTML5. These purchases can now be billed directly to the smartphone user’s wireless bill. This provides the user with another mobile payments option other than credit cards or premium SMS. France is not the first country to…

Mobile payments now being accepted by Facebook in three countries

09/25/201209/25/2012 Stephanie Beck

Carrier billing transactions are now permitted in Germany, the U.K. and the U.S. Facebook has just announced that they will now be accepting mobile payments for the purchase of mobile products and services through American, German, and British carrier billing. This new purchasing opportunity is being powered by Bango. Facebook is hoping that this will bring a revolutionary new way to make mcommerce purchases of virtual products and services, no matter where the consumer may be at the time. It has also given Facebook the chance to use its own…