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BilltoMobile Announces More Merchant Sign-ups

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BilltoMobile, a  mobile payments company that provides direct carrier billing, has chalked up several new merchant agreements.

BilltoMobile is the only mobile payments processor that has been contracted to provide direct carrier billing at all of the top three U.S. mobile operators, and BilltoMobile’s reach and rates provide digital merchants tools for  mobile billing.

The newly announced partnerships include Aeria Games, one of the fastest growing publishers of free-to-play online games in the world; Flirtomatic, a fast-rising mobile dating site; Gala-Net, a leading free-to-play online games market; Lavalife.com, a North American dating site; and Xtranormal, a  movie making site where, “If you can type, you can make movies.”

BilltoMobile’s new partners provided the following insights for using direct carrier payments:

  • “Lavalife.com offers a safe, simple way for singles to meet. With their easy payment mechanism and secure connection to top wireless carriers, BilltoMobile was the clear choice.” — Balraj Dhillon, director of business development, Lavalife.com
  • “BilltoMobile has been great to work with. Integration was easy and their transaction model is a natural fit for our business.” — Graham Sharp, CEO, Xtranormal
  • “Flirtomatic brings together a rapidly growing community of very mobile-centric users, so offering direct carrier billing through BilltoMobile just made sense.” — Gary Cohen, vice president and general manager, Flirtomatic North America
  • “We understand the importance of mobile payments and look forward to growing this segment of our business with BilltoMobile.” — Jikhan Jung, CEO, Gala-Net

These newly announced relationships come on the heels of several major U.S. carrier integration agreements and reseller partnerships that BilltoMobile has announced over the past year, making way for more than 240 million consumers nationwide to charge online purchases to their post-paid wireless bill with convenience and security. On a growing number of participating merchant sites, mobile subscribers now have instant access to BilltoMobile’s web purchase option, which offers consumers a fast, simple, secure payment option. BilltoMobile requires no registration, no need to set or remember any username or passwords, no downloads or apps — and items are directly billed to the consumer’s mobile phone account. Purchases are completed in seconds using a two-step authentication process supported by BilltoMobile’s direct connections with U.S. carriers’ billing platforms, and customers don’t have to expose any sensitive account information while using the service.

“Consumers appreciate the added convenience, flexibility and security for their online purchases,” said Steve Klebe, vice president of business development, BilltoMobile. “BilltoMobile is the only mobile payments gateway that can provide online merchants the financial grade technology infrastructure and broad consumer reach necessary to provide their customers with a viable mobile payment option. We’re pleased to work with these leading digital merchants to make our service even more widely available to consumers.”

Through BilltoMobile, merchants and authorized resellers receive lower processing fees and dispute rates than previously available via the legacy approach to carrier billing. BilltoMobile’s Direct Mobile Billing (DMB) platform involves real-time direct connections with the carrier’s billing system, advanced carrier-direct authentication systems and a direct real-time connection between the BilltoMobile service and the carrier’s customer care systems.

Source: MarketWire

Sprint Selects BilltoMobile to Provide Direct to Mobile Billing for Sprint Customers

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BilltoMobile has announced a  Direct Mobile Billing Gateway Servce Provider agreement with Sprint, which will allow Sprint customers to charge online purchases directly to their Sprint bill. Once implementation is complete in the coming months, merchants and payment resellers using BilltoMobile’s mobile payment service will be able to offer this payment option to Sprint customers.

“On the heels of our Sprint Mobile Wallet launch, we are pleased to work with BilltoMobile to present an additional payment option that will allow Sprint subscribers to conveniently and safely complete purchases on the Web,” said Kevin McGinnis, vice president of Sprint Product Platforms. “Our agreement with BilltoMobile represents another step forward in our efforts to provide our customers with the most innovative services and applications on the market.”

“Partnering with Sprint represents a major milestone for BilltoMobile, as it expands our reach to a vast majority of wireless subscribers in the U.S.,” said Denise Archer, vice president of carrier partnerships, BilltoMobile. “BilltoMobile is the only mobile payments gateway that can offer online digital goods and services merchants the technology infrastructure and broad consumer reach necessary to provide customers with a viable mobile payment option.”

The agreement with Sprint extends BilltoMobile’s overall reach to more than 240 million wireless subscribers in the U.S. across multiple carriers. These customers will now have instant access to BilltoMobile’s exclusive Direct Mobile Billing platform, which offers a simple, secure payment option that requires no registration, no set up, no application or downloads and no association with other financial instruments such as credit or bank cards. Purchases are completed in seconds using a two-step authentication process, and customers don’t have to expose any sensitive account information while using the service.

Through BilltoMobile, merchants and authorized resellers receive significantly lower carrier-inclusive processing fees, and a more robust approach to mobile payment processing. BilltoMobile’s Direct Mobile Billing platform involves real-time direct connections with the carrier’s billing system, advanced carrier-direct authentication systems and a direct real-time connection between the BilltoMobile service and the carrier’s customer care systems.

Source: MarketWire

BilltoMobile Adds Sprint, Extends Reach to 240 Million U.S. Customers

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A year ago, few people in the U.S. had ever heard of BilltoMobile, a direct carrier billing company with roots in Korea. But the San Jose, Calif. company is fast emerging as a leader in the mobile payments space with direct billing arrangements with Verizon and AT&T and Friday, it’s adding Sprint to the list.

The latest announcement extends BilltoMobile’s reach to about 240 million customers in the U.S., who will be able to make purchases and charge them directly to their cell phone bill. BilltoMobile is actively looking at locking up more carriers in North America and is expanding the number of merchants it deals with directly.

via GigaOm.

BilltoMobile Demonstrates Mobile Payments Via GSMA’s OneAPI Gateway

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BilltoMobile, a leading provider of mobile payments for online purchases in the United States, has announced that it has been selected by the GSMA as a demonstration partner to showcase how mobile payments can be made in the United States via the GSMA’s OneAPI Gateway. The demonstration at the GSMA Mobile World Congress this week will illustrate how the BilltoMobile payment gateway can be connected to the GSMA OneAPI Gateway, allowing online merchant sites and developers to enable mobile payments to 65 per cent of all U.S. wireless subscribers.

BilltoMobile’s secure payment gateway is directly connected to the top two U.S. carriers’ billing, authentication and customer care systems. Purchases take seconds to complete, require no pre-registration or special hardware, and have no association with credit or bank cards. Purchases appear directly on the subscriber’s wireless bill, with no interest charges or subscriber fees of any kind.

“We’re very pleased to be working with BilltoMobile to demonstrate how we can expand the reach of the GSMA OneAPI Gateway to include mobile payment capabilities throughout North America,” said Graham Trickey, Senior Director at the GSMA. “BilltoMobile’s low-cost, robust and secure mobile payment gateway has allowed us to extend the reach of the GSMA OneAPI payment service and to enable the services that people really want in a clear, simple and secure way.”

BilltoMobile launched the United States’ first Direct Mobile Billing (DMB) service for Verizon Wireless’ subscribers in May 2010, attracting a number of prominent online game companies, and a wide range of digital goods and services merchants that offer the BilltoMobile payment option on their web sites. In October 2010, BilltoMobile launched its same proprietary DMB service in partnership with AT&T. Today, BilltoMobile is the only mobile payments company in the U.S. with direct-to-carrier billing agreements with two top U.S. carriers —reaching over 180 million U.S. mobile payment-capable subscribers.

Denise Archer, VP Carrier Partnerships, BilltoMobile, said, “We are very proud to be part of the GSMA OneAPI initiative, supporting the organization in reaching its ease-of-access goals, and demonstrating how quickly and easily we can expand the reach of the current GSMA OneAPI Gateway to offer mobile payments to their merchants in the United States.”

San Jose-based BilltoMobile is a privately held U.S. company that is providing Direct Mobile Billing to carriers in North America. BilltoMobile’s strategic partner, Danal Co., Ltd (Seoul, So. Korea), has integrated its financial-grade Direct Mobile Billing service with 14 carriers in Korea, Taiwan and China.

Source: Marketwire

PaymentOne Partners With BilltoMobile to Offer Direct Mobile Billing

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Two of the leading mobile payment and carrier billing companies in the world have agreed to provide merchants and consumers with a seamless and secure mobile payment experience.

San Jose-based PaymentOne has partnered with BilltoMobile to offer PaymentOne merchants and customers more competitive payouts and advanced security compared to premium SMS through the BilltoMobile Direct Mobile Billing DMB payment service which is directly connected into the carrier billing system.

PaymentOne Corp., founded in 2000 and profitable since 2005, continues to experience exponential growth as the only provider to offer billing to mobile, broadband and fixed landline carriers through the PaymentOne AnyPhone solution.

PaymentOne has processed more than $4 Billion in retail charges for virtual goods and subscription services on carrier bills. PaymentOne’s AnyPhone Network reaches 3 billion consumer bills in more than 70 countries through contracts with over 1,100 operators.

BilltoMobile, and its strategic investor, Danal, Co., Ltd Seoul, Korea are also one of the global leaders in processing eCommerce mobile payments and have processed over $4 Billion in mobile billing transactions. Their service is leading the way globally for financial grade mobile payment standards that are revolutionizing the mobile billing space.

Joe Lynam, PaymentOne CEO, and Jim Greenwell, BilltoMobile CEO, issued a joint statement: “PaymentOne and BilltoMobile agreed to collaborate to enhance both the merchant and consumer value proposition. Consumers will benefit from a secure and convenient payment solution. Merchants and publishers will enjoy improved payouts and dramatically improved ‘friendly fraud’ mitigation from PaymentOne’s Propensity-to-Pay fraud management system. This collaboration will significantly enhance the world’s largest merchants’ and online publishers’ ability to monetize the rapidly growing consumer demand for virtual goods and services.”

Source: MarketWire

BilltoMobile Expands Verizon Carrier Billing Options to Include Boku

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BilltoMobile is expanding its direct carrier billing relationship with Verizon Wireless to process transactions from other payment platforms starting with mobile payment start-up Boku. The agreement allows Boku to tap into BilltoMobile’s direct billing gateway and will greatly expand the number of merchants and consumers who can use direct billing on Verizon. BilltoMobile’s deal with Boku is non-exclusive so BilltoMobile could also process transactions from Zong and other payments providers as well.

BilltoMobile last year secured the first U.S. carrier billing deal when it agreed with Verizon Wireless to process payments directly through the carrier’s billing system.

via GigaOm.

U.S. Mobile Payment Market to Top $200 Billion by 2015, Says Research Report

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A recent report from Aite Group forecasts that U.S. mobile bill payments will reach more than $200  billion in 2015.

Aite Group interviewed more than 60 companies in the Fall of 2010 and produced a 65 page report that defines and segments the mobile payment industry, and includes an analysis of the competitive and market trends.

Each one of the multiple categories of mobile payments defined in the report will experience double-digit growth, with mobile payments accounting for  US$214 billion in gross dollar volume by 2015, up from US$16 billion in 2010–a 68% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2010 and 2015.

The report references the following companies: Allstate, Amazon, American Express, Apple, AT&T, Bango, Bank of America, Barclays, Bill2Mobile, BlackBerry, Bling Nation, BOKU, Brink’s, C-Sam, Cashedge, Cellfire, Chase, Chase Paymentech, Cimbal, ClairMail, coupons.com, Coupons Sherpa, Visa’s Cybersource, Device Fidelity, Diebold, Discover, Eagle Eye Solutions, eBay, Euronet, Facebook, First Data, FIS, Fiserv, Foursquare, Gemalto, Global Payments, Google, Gowalla, Green Dot, Groupon, Harland Financial Services, Heartland Payment Systems, Hipcricket, iLoop Mobile, Inside Contactless, Intuit, Jack Henry/iPay Technologies, Kubra, MasterCard, mFoundry, Mobile Coupons, Mocapay, MoneyGram, Monitise Group, mopay, MyWebGrocer, NCR, NetSpend, Nokia, Oberthur Technologies, Obopay, OfferIQ, Online Resources, PayPal, Plastyc, Pyxis Mobile, Research-in-Motion (RIM), Roam Data (Ingenico), Roamware, Rocketbuxx, SK C&C USA, Square, Starbucks, Sybase, T-Mobile, Tetherball, 3i Infotech, Tier Technologies, TransferTo, TSYS, Twitter, U.S. Bank, VeriFone, Verizon, Vesta, Visa, ViVOtech, Waspit, Way Systems, Western Union, Wincor Nixdorf, WirelessLoyalty, Xipwire, Yelp, and Zong.

More information: Aite Group Mobile Payment Report.

Source: Aite Group