Where next for PRS?

A new Thinktank report (pdf doc) prepared for premium phone-paid services regulator, PhonepayPlus, ‘Current & future market for Premium Rate Services’ offers some compelling industry and consumer insights into the Premium Rate Services (PRS) market, particularly consumed via mobile devices. A contracting PRS market is put down to stringent regulation and heavy fines disincentivising rogue [...]

charity messages

Everyone’s talking about the power of SMS text message donations in the wake of the Haiti tragedy. Rightly so. It’s a single donation medium which has scaled enormously, on an unprecedented scale and in a short space of time. Driven first by the American Red Cross, significantly quicker to mobilise SMS short code donations than [...]

NFC – miles away or nearly there?

Here already in vertical markets * Sleeping giant of consumer banking beginning to stir… Here’s another blog about NFC (Near Field Communication), the technology which enables Oyster card-like customer-present instant payments on mobile devices. This post contains the usual “enormous potential” blah, an intriguing new nugget suggesting mainstream mobile banking might not be that far [...]

Payforit's nervous twitch

Does the variety of on-device payment methods and the emergence of app stores pose any threat to Payforit, the UK’s cross mobile network billing standard? Payforit was developed by the operators “to promote a trustworthy and consistent standard for paying by mobile, so that consumers can buy with confidence when they are making one-off payments [...]

The MDA's "Monetising the mobile internet" – a day of insights

London’s Royal Statistical Society hosted the MDA event, “Monetising the mobile internet in tough times” on Monday 8th June, sponsored by the DCKTN. I’ve tried to illustrate the key highlights here, but please feel free to correct me if I’ve misrepresented anyone or anything. This was originally posted over at my MDA blog, and all [...]

Mobile payment's third way set to strike?

Mobile NFC (Near Field Communication), the Oyster-alike method of user-present mobile payment sounds and promises to be very slick indeed. But even though the first few handsets should start trickling into the market before the end of the year, it’s a while off yet.

It’s not now, or even soon for the mass market. What could be both of those is m-payment’s slow burner.