Carrier billing has managed to establish a strong foothold worldwide — as it has been a popular way to buy digital content in Asia, Europe in the Middle East. In the U.S. on the other hand, it never gained much traction past the early days...
Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Coverage includes Fortumo’s rollout of direct carrier billing in Sweden. In addition, Australia Post is deploying a multilane payment solution from Verifone, and MySQUAR has rolled out a soft-launch of a remittance service....
Here’s another way to pay for Amazon Prime Video: Just put the charges on a mobile phone bill. That is what Bango, a tech company that enables online payments, and the eCommerce operator have just launched in the U.K., news that presents the opportunity to...
Mobile payments company Bango announced that it has expanded Direct Carrier Billing (DCB) availability to Japanese customers of Amazon Prime and Prime Student membership programs. The news comes after the successful June 2017 launch of DCB for Amazon retail customers in Japan. Amazon customers with...
July 13, 2020
“Careem” is an Arabic word meaning, in part, “noble, admirable and praiseworthy.” In the case of Dubai-based ride-hailing and delivery platform Careem and its efforts to modernize payments in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region, add “timely” to the list. The platform’s deal with Visa to bring enhanced payments together with financial management tools […]
June 18, 2020
Carrier billing has managed to establish a strong foothold worldwide — as it has been a popular way to buy digital content in Asia, Europe in the Middle East. In...
May 20, 2016
Though billions of people around the world have access to smartphones, it doesn’t mean they have access to a payment method that allows them to purchase digital goods and content...
November 14, 2017
Mobile payments company Bango announced that it has expanded Direct Carrier Billing (DCB) availability to Japanese customers of Amazon Prime and Prime Student membership programs. The news comes after the successful June 2017 launch of DCB for Amazon retail customers in Japan. Amazon customers with an NTT DOCOMO or KDDI (au) mobile phone account can […]
June 06, 2017
According to news out this morning, DOCOMO Digital will enable NTT DOCOMO’s carrier billing for Amazon in Japan. NTT DOCOMO is both DOCOMO’s parents firm and Japan’s largest mobile operator....
April 14, 2017
Mobifone, the Vietnamese mobile operator, and the mobile payments company Fortumo announced Thursday (April 3) the launch of carrier billing on Google Play. In a press release, Mobifone said now more...
November 03, 2016
Boku, an independent carrier billing company, announced Wednesday (Nov. 3) the expansion of carrier billing for Spotify music users in Switzerland. According to a blog post, the expanded carrier billing...
