Telecoms Tech

The mobile payments market has long been gestating in developed markets, and is now finally starting to gain momentum in terms of product launches and levels of investment from significant players across the financial services, IT, and telco markets. However, it is clear that the market is unlikely to reach a big bang moment, and will instead continue to evolve on several fronts at once.

Digital advertising revenues climbed to a milestone high of $36 billion in 2012, according to the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report for the full-year of 2012.

According to the latest market study by Juniper Research, a growing user acceptance of push mobile banking and a sharp rise in media tablet adoption will drive users of transactional mobile banking services to almost 200 million in 2017. The tablet user base will represent approximately 19 percent of total mobile banking customers in 2017, compared to 9 percent this year - as consumers engage in increasingly mobile lifestyles.

At Mobile World Congress 2013, I attended a distinguished panel about The Future of Communications, showing that in today's communications, we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg of what's lying ahead.

The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MITT) recently announced that it has opened a consultation period to gauge whether mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) should be allowed into the Chinese market.

The telecoms industry has a shared vision of what successful mobile money services will look like and what user experience they will provide. How we get there is another thing entirely...

For those of us who play rewards card roulette, cloud-based digital wallet Wallaby Card could potentially be a good idea.

comScore released an analysis of mobile financial services usage showing that 32.5 million Americans accessed mobile banking information on their devices at the end of Q2 2011 in June -- representing 13.9 percent of all mobile users. The study also revealed that 12.7 million mobile users reported using banking applications (apps), showing a notable increase of 45%.