50% of Mobile Payments Made Via Mobile Money Transfer and NFC, Says Study

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Juniper Research conducted a Mobile Payments Study that resulted in the future showing up something like "50% of mobile payments will be done via NFC and Mobile Money Transfer by 2013". NFC is the famous Near Field Communications technology that is featured on some handsets and will become widespread in ...

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Mobile Money Transfer Service Announced by Western Union and Orascom Telecom

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Western Union announced that it plans to work with Orascom Telecom Holding in order to launch a mobile money transfer service. Orascom Telecom operates 6 mobile networks (Djezzy in Algeria, Mobilink in Pakistan, Mobinil in Egypt, Tunisiana in Tunisia, Banglalink in Bangladesh, and Telecel Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe), with a total ...

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