Retailers ready for transactional mobile

Show me the money (or at least the billing mechanism) Research published by trade bodies the IAB, AIME and IMRG and reported by NMA says that two-fifths of UK retailers are planning to launch a transactional mobile site or app within the next year.  It also says that retailers admit to needing more training. How [...]

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 [...]

Purple patch for mobile money

The past week or so has seen the launch of no fewer than three new twists on mobile money from the UK’s leading players in the mobile billing space. Increased flexibility and choice for brands and businesses, or just added confusion? Those capitalising on peak summertime releases, when new solutions can be publicised with reduced [...]

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 [...]

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.