Nov. 13, 2018

PM Connect, a U.K.-based mobile payment provider, is partnering with Vodacom, Africa's largest mobile carrier, to provide mobile-optimized sports and entertainment content from a variety of international providers.

The agreement includes content from professional wrestling giant WWE. Content can be bought via a mobile device on a subscription basis, according to a press release.

Chris Purdie, group commercial director at PM Connect, said the service is focused on South Africa, where Vodacom has a 43 percent share and will eventually expand across the continent, according to the release. 

The news was released ahead of the AfricaCom conference, the largest in the continent focused on technology, media and telecom. 
 

Topics: Bill Payment, In-App Payments, Mobile Payments, Region: EMEA

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Nov. 12, 2018

Splio, the Paris-based marketing automation and loyalty platform, announced that it had acquired French startup firm Gowento, a mobile customer engagement platform that allows the integration of its mobile wallet technology to the combined company, in a blogpost and company release.

Splio said the acquisition comes six months after it rolled out WeChat as a new channel and just a month after launching support for new customer loyalty programs.

"Gowento is already integrated into the Splio customer platform and allows customers to seamlessly add mobile wallets via email or SMS," Charles Wells, chief product & marketing officer told Mobile Payments Today, via email. "Additional features including push wallet notifications from the Splio platform are being developed."

Wells said that all ten of Gowento's employees have joined Splio at its Paris headquarters, and Gowento would continue to operate as "Gowento, a Splio company" for the next 12 months, however that company brand name will be later retired.

Founded by Rabye Marouene, Sebastien Alexandre and Loris Guignard, in 2015, the Paris-based Gowento has expanded to more than 50 customers, including Fnac, L'Occitane and Nicolas, a French wine retailer that is a joint customer of both firms, and has operated in 60 countries worldwide.

Topics: Loyalty Programs, Mobile/Digital Wallet, Region: EMEA

Companies: Splio, Gowento

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Nov. 11, 2018

CellPoint Mobile is urging Caribbean airlines to embrace direct mobile channels as their main point of sale with customers, in a new blogpost on the telco firm’s website.

James Schildknecht, director, integrated mobile marketing solutions, said in a blog post last week that carriers in the region should embrace direct mobile payment as a means of reducing distribution costs and also to embrace cross-border capabilities, since many of their passengers fly into the region from the U.S., Latin America or other islands.  

In late October, CellPoint Mobile announced an agreement with Port-au-Prince, Haiti-based Sunrise Airways, to provide web and mobile payment technology to the regional carrier.

CellPoint, which specializes in travel-related mobile payments for airlines, hotels and ground transit services, plans to integrate its Velocity payment platform into the Sunrise passenger service system and speed the rollout of multiple payment capabilities into the airline’s route network.

Sunrise, offers service from its Port-au-Prince hub to Cap Haitien, Haiti; Havana, Camaguey and Santiago de Cuba; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and Curacao. Besides Sunrise, the mobile provider also works with AVA Airways in the Dominican Republic.

The carrier plans to launch new service to Kingston, Jamaica and Providenciales, Turks and Caicos, pending government approval. The closely held carrier said it expects to fly a total of 200,000 passengers this year.

Topics: Carriers / Operators, Mobile Apps, Mobile Payments, Region: Americas

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