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India’s Operators Throw Weight Behind Mobile Industry’s Digital Identity Solution
Sunday 30 October, 2016
With the mobile industry accounting for 6.5 % of the country’s GDP, it forms a crucial part of India’s economy and acts a key driver of the country’s Digital India campaign. These are amongst the reasons why the industry’s annual regional engagement conferences, the Mobile ...
Biometric Authentication is Coming. But is it Enough?
Monday 12 September, 2016
Gautam Hazari, Technical Director, Personal Data, GSMA The Internet of Things (IoT) will transform a great many facets of daily life. One casualty of this coming change which tends to go unnoticed, however, will be the traditional username-and-password method of online ...
Mobile Payments: Is the Tide Turning on Security Concerns?
Thursday 4 August, 2016
There has been a history of doubt over the security credentials of mobile payment solutions. Consumers have generally seen traditional methods such as physical credit cards as ensuring greater safety from fraud, and have been sceptical that mobile payment can offer the same ...
Mobile Connect to Help Scale India’s Digital Economy
Monday 1 August, 2016
India is now the world’s fastest-growing major economy, its growth rate having overtaken China’s in Q1 of this year. Total consumer spending on the subcontinent is set to exceed $3.6 trillion by 2020, and e-commerce sales totalled an estimated $7.7 billion in 2015 – up ...
GSMA Announces Launch of Mobile Connect Across India
Wednesday 20 July, 2016
NEW DELHI—The GSMA are pleased to announce that Mobile Connect, the mobile-based authentication solution, is now available to more than 800 million consumers across India. Mobile network operators (MNOs) offering Mobile Connect services are Aircel, Bharti Airtel, Idea, Tata ...
Microsoft and MNOs Join Forces on Mobile Connect Proof of Concept
Monday 18 July, 2016
SHANGHAI—Mobile Connect, the rapidly growing digital identity solution, has gained further momentum after it was demonstrated that it can provide secure authentication for Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory B2C. The demonstration, which took place inside the GSMA Innovation ...
China’s Operators Unite to Accelerate Delivery of Mobile Connect
Wednesday 13 July, 2016
Mobile network operators China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom have pledged to ensure that Mobile Connect will be interoperable in China. As a result, the digital identity solution will be available for use on apps and internet services regardless of users’ ...
Mobile Connect’s capabilities to be showcased to Asian market at MWCS16
Monday 20 June, 2016
As services in Asia continue to move online, consumers and businesses alike face two challenges: how to keep track of an ever-increasing array of login details, and how to keep associated services secure yet convenient. Mobile Connect meets both of these challenges, by ...
Global service providers show support for Mobile Connect at London Summit
Sunday 19 June, 2016
Over one-hundred senior representatives from a variety of high profile organisations gathered at the Mobile Connect Summit in London last week to discuss the interoperable digital identity solution and the advantages it can bring to consumers and digital services. The ...
How can banks adapt to meet PSD2?
Sunday 19 June, 2016
Insight into the implications for banks of PSD2’s regulations have been widely anticipated within the payments ecosystem for some time, and were investigated at the Open Banking Summit last month. PSD2 – the revised Payment Services Directive – has for some time been a hot ...
The Future of Digital Identity Hinges on the Power of Mobile
Sunday 19 June, 2016
One of the greatest challenges for any business offering digital services is ensuring that they can offer their customers a convenient means of identification and authentication. Yet as number services grow, so too does the probability that consumers will be required to ...
Operators gather to celebrate new stage of Mobile Connect
Friday 4 March, 2016
One of talking points of Mobile World Congress was the announcement that Mobile Connect, the mobile-based digital identity solution, is now available to 2 billion consumers globally. In recognition of this achievement, the GSMA hosted an award ceremony for Mobile Connect’s ...
Mobile Connect is enabling digital identity for public sector services
Thursday 25 February, 2016
One of the interesting aspects of Mobile Connect is its ability to act as a secure digital identity solution for both private and public sector services. At the GSMA seminar ‘Mobile Connect: Driving Global Economic Growth Through Secure Mobile Identity Verification’, on 24 ...
Mobile Connect has brought ‘an unprecedented level of cooperation’ between operators across the globe
Tuesday 23 February, 2016
BARCELONA—Following the announcement that Mobile Connect is now available to 2 billion consumers globally, the GSMA’s Personal Data programme hosted a seminar to further unite the industry behind the mobile-based digital identity solution. The seminar was kicked off in ...
Experiencing the variety of Mobile Connect use cases at the GSMA Innovation City
Monday 22 February, 2016
As the demand for secure, convenient digital services intensifies, so too does interest in Mobile Connect, the rapidly growing universal identity solution. At this year’s Mobile World Congress, those visiting the Innovation City have the opportunity to participate in a ...
GSMA’s Mobile Connect Available to 2 Billion Consumers Globally
Monday 22 February, 2016
Mobile Connect Launched with 34 Operators in 21 Countries Around the World Barcelona: The GSMA today announced that the GSMA Mobile Connect mobile-based authentication solution is now available to 2 billion consumers globally. Since the solution was introduced at Mobile ...
New functionality enables service providers to easily contract with Mobile Connect operators
Sunday 21 February, 2016
The Mobile Connect Developer Portal, the resource designed to enable developers of digital services to get started with Mobile Connect, has introduced new functionality to allow developers to easily contract with Mobile Connect operators through one standard set of terms and ...
Leading experts to feature at Mobile Connect seminars at Mobile World Congress
Wednesday 17 February, 2016
The GSMA is proud to announce that a variety of high profile industry figures and e-governance experts will be speaking at the Mobile Connect seminars during Mobile World Congress 2016. The seminars, ‘Delivering a Global Authentication Solution’ and ‘Driving Economic Growth ...
The future of digital identity in building a successful digital society
Wednesday 17 February, 2016
At this year’s Mobile World Congress the topic of digital identity will be in the spotlight. On 23 February, experts from the mobile industry and representatives of governmental and international organisations will gather at the GSMA’s Ministerial Programme, to discuss the ...
Discover Mobile Connect at the GSMA Innovation City
Monday 15 February, 2016
Mobile Connect, the state of the art authentication solution designed to facilitate the secure, private and convenient use of digital services, will be fully showcased in the GSMA Innovation City at Mobile World Congress 2016. Inside the Mobile Connect Demo Area, attendees ...