Billing on Mobile

…at least five evidently – and you’re right it’s not funny, especially if you are a mobile app developer trying to build and maintain apps for the growing smartphone market. Google recently revealed high levels of fragmentation in their Android platform and has now announced their own Nexus One handset that uses yet another version [...]

There’s great news for O2’s 21 million strong customer base who can now all benefit from the industries fastest single-click Payforit payment experience – thanks to Bango. This includes the wide range of smartphones and significant number of Apple iPhone, Windows Phone and Palm Pre users connecting over O2’s internet gateways.

Customers with smartphones [...]

If rumours are true, then we can all expect to see more consumers in the USA browsing the web from their smartphone and making purchases soon. According to The Boy Genius Report from September AT&T will provide customers with a suitable data plan for their smartphone.

The high cost of data has long been known to [...]

During peak shopping times on August 3rd, the entire PayPal billing system

failed, blocking consumers from making purchases for over 4 hours. The significant duration of the outage and the fact that the last major outage was just over a month ago prompted their SVP Technology to issue a personal apology on their blog.

While Paypal has [...]

The popularity of Smartphones and high end  mobile devices, such as Blackberries,  the Apple iPhone, Nokia Series, means that Wi-Fi is appearing more frequently as a user connection method accross a range of handsets. In fact  Bango has recently released some stats showing that over 20% of people visiting web sites to purchase content using [...]

Not our words but this comes from Konny Zsigo of the Wireless Developer Agency.

“If you’re trying to make money selling consumer games and apps, it’s time to dump your iPhone strategy and march straight back to the cellular phone carriers and beg them to take you back.” Strong words!

I think quite [...]

Probably not but some doubts are now circulating as to whether it makes sense to focus all your efforts on selling mobile content through app stores.

John Strand of Strand Consult, who’s been advising mobile operators on strategy for many years, is once again making us all sit up and question:

Is Apple’s App Store really [...]

It comes as no surprise that Nokia will not have operator billing when it launches its Ovi App Store next month to a potential market of 50 million users on 25 devices (read the story in The Washington Post). Nokia had originally said that it would offer operator billing in nine countries including the [...]

There were some great questions posed by content providers wanting to understand the US mobile opportunity at the Bango webinar last week and we thought it would be great to share these with everyone. 

Questions - The US Opportunity webinar, 21 April (Watch a recording here)

Q: Does AT&T allow payment via credit card through Bango?

A: For any service [...]

Some recent stats from Bango show that only 5 countries in the Top 10 for browsing are also in the Top 10 for payments - USA, UK, Spain, Portugal and South Africa. 

Here are the reasons why one country may be a much better candidate for selling mobile content than another:

Disposable income – the more disposable income [...]