Fireside chat: Modica Group
In this Fireside Chat MEF CEO Dario Betti speaks to Stuart Wilson, CEO of New Zealand based A2P messaging platform Modica Group about their business and the current state of the A2P market in New Zealand and globally.
Asked about the maturity and growth of the SMS A2P Market in New Zealand, Stuart said: “It’s gone through similar cycles: a little bit of enterprise then premium rate, then regulation & customer service shutting down premium rate and security becoming a big driver.
Digital Identity Interview: David Pollington, GSMA
MEFTV speaks to David Pollington, Senior Director of Technology & Product at the GSMA during EEMA’s 2019 London event, about the future of digital identity and trust on the internet.
Asked about the discussions being held among industry leaders during the event, David said “Really the one thing that underpinned it all was the importance of identity and trust on the internet – we’re all aware of things like phishing attacks, malware, data breaches, deep fakes etc – so that’s one of the key areas; how do we bring the identity layer and trust to the internet?
Interview: Tata’s Anurag Aggarwal on cashless India’s big boost to the A2P space
Demand for ‘traditional’ SMS enterprise messaging will keep the A2P market growing until 2025, says Tata Communication’s Anurag Aggarwal. In an exclusive interview with MEFTV, he explains why…
At one time, the mainstream view of OTT messaging apps was that they represented competition to the traditional telco industry. No longer. Today, many insiders know that the picture is much more nuanced. Yes, the major OTT players do have ambitions in the enterprise messaging space. And yet, they are also among the operators’ best customers.
Digital Identity interview: Andrew Bud, iProov
MEFTV speaks to Andrew Bud, MEF Global Chair and Founder and CEO of iProov, during EEMA London 2019 about the challenges of digital identity and how the industry is going about resolving the issue of reliably establishing online identity for transactions and interactions.
“We found it helpful to break the role of digital identity into three big functions; one is the collection and storage of attributes about a person, the bits and pieces of information that make a person’s identity.”
Digital Identity Interview: Frank Joshi, mvine
MEFTV speaks to Frank Joshi, MD of Mvine Limited during EEMA London who shares his thoughts on industry efforts to solve the issue of digital identity and the even greater challenge facing the industry in resolving understanding and identifying devices connected to our networks in the internet of things – or the “identity of things”.
Interview: Michael Paxman, Adjust
MEFTV speaks to Michael Paxman, Global Project Communications lead at Adjust who shares his views on the issue of mobile marketing fraud, and the extent to which it represents a problem for the industry, and how he sees the app ecosystem developing in the future.
“Mobile fraud is rampant, in part because it is very easy to execute. But fraudsters are very rarely caught, and even if they are, regulation hasn’t yet caught up with the issue. There is often no punishment for those found to be carrying out fraud, leaving them free to move onto exploiting the next app on their list.”
Fireside Chat: Anurag Lal, Infinite Convergence
In this fireside conversation, MEF CEO Dario Betti speaks with Anurag Lal, President and CEO of Infinite Convergence, about the changing landscape of the telecommunications ecosystem and takes a close look at the evolution of connectivity now and in the future. The regulation of Internet technology is something that Anurag Lal is very aware of.
Member Interview: Syntonic
MEFTV speaks to Syntonic co-founders Gary Greenbaum and Rahul Agarwal about getting carriers into the app economy, and their three new carrier services they announced at this year’s Mobile World Congress.
“Mobile carriers are not participating in the ‘app-economy’, which is about twice the size of the mobile data business and growing substantially faster,” said Gary Greenbaum, Syntonic CEO. “With Syntonic’s new platform services, we can now provide carriers, content providers and advertisers with full out-of-the-box solutions to generate new revenue streams from engaged mobile subscribers.”
Interview: The state of the App Economy
MEFTV speaks to James Cooper, Director of the App Promotion Summit events series, set to return to New York next month. We asked James to explain the current state of the mobile app economy and why he believes they are still central to the future of the mobile ecosystem.
Executive Insights: Oscar Gallego, Global Head of Smart Communication & Security, Vodafone
Is RCS the future of enterprise messaging? Can it stay free of spam? And why is messaging the best option for workplace collaboration? Oscar Gallego, Global Head of Smart Communication & Security at Vodafone, shares his views.