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NFC technology based payments aren’t as popular as carrier billing

02/21/201302/20/2013 Sam Lambert

When it comes to short term monetization of smartphone transactions, near field communication fell short. According to a new whitepaper that was just released by Juniper Research and Amdocs, which has revealed the leading mobile payments strategies and it discovered that NFC technology is currently nowhere near the lead. The whitepaper provided considerable insight into the techniques that are currently leading the way. The name of the whitepaper was “Mobile Payments in the App Store Economy: Winning Strategies for Telcos.” It focused a great deal on the relevance of telcos…

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…