Category: Telecommunications
Twenty-five years ago, telecommunications was facing their biggest threat since deregulation, and most executives did not take the threat seriously. Ten years later, it had decimated international telecom revenue models and profitability. Today, it is the reason that most phone calls cost close to…
Mobile payments is starting over. When the Google Wallet launched on September 20, 2011, the first test of a remarkable new financial ecosystem began. But despite the apparent success of traditional mobile payments products like M-PESA in Kenya and South Africa, Google and rival…
Category: Mobile Payments, Payments & Credit Cards, TelecommunicationsTags: analysis, books, David W. Schropfer, google wallet, isis, Mobile Payments, Mobile Wallet, smartphone wallet, whitepaper
Posted on June 23, 2011
by David W. Schropfer
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Yesterday, Andrew Johnson of American Banker magazine (and PaymentSource) interviewed ISIS head of marketing Jaymee Johnson (no relation). In the article published today, Johnson said: “The handset pipeline around NFC is basically just about to explode,” Jaymee Johnson, ISIS head of marketing, said in a June…
Category: Mobile Payments, Mobile Wallet, Payments & Credit Cards, TelecommunicationsTags: business, David W. Schropfer, iphone, isis, Mobile Payments, Mobile Wallet, news, nfc, smartphone wallet
Yesterday, the Google Wallet was announced. given that security has always been the number one concern of consumers, the most important question on people’s mind is, “will it be more secure?” The short answer is: Yes. Here’s why: a Smartphone can be secured on…
Category: Mobile Payments, Payments & Credit Cards, TelecommunicationsTags: amex, David W. Schropfer, electronic cash register, google, google wallet, isis, mastercard, mobile commerce, Mobile Payments, Mobile Wallet, news, nfc, pos, security, smartphone wallet, verifone, visa
Mobile commerce in the United States will have three Mobile commerce products, each with similar features, similar benefits, similar functions. However, all three have different sets of partners, operate on at least two different types of networks, and will certainly have three different delivery…
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VeriFone has crystallized its long-term position in a pivotal announcement today about a new product determined to put the VeriFone POS devices at the coveted center of payments, loyalty, and mobile commerce industries. As reported by American Banker this morning, VeriFone’s new service is…
Category: Mobile Payments, Mobile Wallet, Payments & Credit Cards, TelecommunicationsTags: analysis, analyze, books, business, ecr, electronic cash register, isis, mastercard, mobile commerce, mobile loyalty, mobile pay, Mobile Payments, news, paypal, pos, verifone, visa
Posted on February 24, 2011
by David W. Schropfer
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The first pictures of the Isis mobile wallet are probably many months away from being released to the public. No, the image on the left is neither from Isis nor endorsed by Isis, but it has merit based on recent public statements from the…
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