ANALYSIS When AI starts spending: why the UK FCA’s agentic ambitions...
AI agents promise to find services, manage subscriptions and make payments on customers’ behalf. The UK’s FCA’s response raises a question that reaches well...
OPINION Voice commerce has a trust problem – here’s how the...
Voice commerce is taking off, with bots from everyone from Meta to SpaceX seeking to add voice to how people sell. But with that...
hayo launches number verification API to unlock operator revenue, reduce authentication...
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Hayo’s Number Verification API uses SIM-based authentication to verify mobile numbers silently, reducing reliance on SMS codes and creating new authentication revenues for...
Telemedia Marbella 2026: telemedia has to earn the next payment –...
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Growth depends on lasting customer value: Cheap acquisition is useful only when customers understand the purchase, receive the promised service and keep paying.
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Africa’s next mobile content opportunity: follow the customer, not the airtime...
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Growth needs local knowledge: Smadex reports African ad spend on its platform rising almost 80% year on year, but language, content demand, taxation...
After header enrichment: how DCB can rebuild the two-click advantage
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DCB can adapt in an HTTPS world: Telenity’s MENA experience shows that OTP and operator APIs can replace traditional header enrichment, although added...
Cheap traffic, expensive lessons: why mobile growth needs a better measure...
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Cheap traffic can prove costly:Low acquisition costs can hide failed payments, rapid churn and complaints that lead to refunds, fines or service suspensions.
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The great mobile reset is already underway and you can see...
Ahead of Telemedia Marbella, the news is already providing a pretty good indication of what everyone will be talking about when the industry descends...
XConnect and Honey Badger combine data to strengthen digital identity decisions
XConnect, a provider of world-class numbering intelligence mobile identity and fraud prevention services, and leading risk and identity specialists Honey Badger, have formed a...
Beyond disruption: telemedia market in recombination mode ahead of Marbella show...
We didn’t put out a Telemedia newsletter in August – apparently, the industry took that as a challenge. While many of us were trying...
