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Sunday, June 11, 2006
Consolidation among mobile transaction providers
As people in the business knows, setting up Premium SMS and similar agreements with individual operators simply doesn't work due to the amount of operators and the need for more advanced services than most operators offer (not saying that operators couldn't have offered better services).
As this is big business right now, aggregating the billing for all the content providers, this article argues that there will be more acquisitions of such companies, typically where a large customer in need for in-house billing services buy a smaller mobile transaction company.
Mentioned as potential acquisition targets are mBlox that Jamba uses (yet Jamba decided to acquire m-Qube instead) and Motricity.
Racing to the middle
As this is big business right now, aggregating the billing for all the content providers, this article argues that there will be more acquisitions of such companies, typically where a large customer in need for in-house billing services buy a smaller mobile transaction company.
Mentioned as potential acquisition targets are mBlox that Jamba uses (yet Jamba decided to acquire m-Qube instead) and Motricity.
Racing to the middle
