Telecoms Tech

Receiving your very first SMS – at the time it seemed such a marvel of modern technology. These days it’s something we take for granted as ever more advanced features are released for our daily use, but is the era of SMS over?

It’s an interesting combination; a payment solution within your smart TV. Yet, for South Korean manufacturer LG and payments facilitator PayPal, it has only been officially announced this week. So is this a match made in heaven?

The majority of US citizens aren’t using mobile banking services because they simply don’t need it, and their banking needs were being adequately met without the use of mobile banking. That’s the big takeaway from the Federal Reserve (FRB), who has brought out a mammoth 79-page document on how consumers interact with mobile financial services.

A new report from performance marketers Intela has revealed that more than two in five UK smartphone users said they were more likely to purchase goods over mobile than this time last year. Nearly one in two US consumers (44%) agreed that they were more likely to buy through mobile this year than compared to 2012.

Mobile has been the hot topic for quite some years now especially with the smartphone revolution and constant developments from apps to mPayments. But have we in the west reached that mobile milestone where the advancements and the monetisation opportunities have started to slow because consumers are nearly at saturation point?

PayPal’s winning this battle, but Google’s going to win the war. That’s according to two contrasting pieces of research published earlier this month concerning digital and mobile wallets.

You might have heard about a story appearing in the press recently, which reported that a UK customer was hit with two bills which amounted to a staggering £19,000. While originally intent on the bill being paid, it later emerged the cost was a result of a fault with the customer's device, which was (unexpectedly) sending and receiving vast amounts of data, and the bill was ultimately waived.

4G has had its fair share of praise and criticism. It undoubtedly brings with it the promise of increased demand for faster downloads and seamless streaming services, but that's kind of missing the point. What do operators need to consider building the right 4G propositions and delivering them smoothly? Are there relevant learnings from the previous move from 2.5G to 3G?