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The GSMA, which represents phone networks, is working with the European Payments Council to explore mobile payment ideas.

The two trade bodies aim to speed up the deployment of services that enable consumers to pay for goods and services using mobile. These services will be facilitated by a ‘Trusted Service Manager’, which will support banks and mobile operators in the distribution, configuration and activation of the bank’s payment application.

AIME, the trade body that represents the UK premium telephony business, wants UK regulator PhonePayPlus to change its approach to D2C content abuses.

It’s urging PhonePayPlus to punish unscrupulous content providers rather than the aggregators that power their operations. AIME is also advocating a content provider’s registration scheme, a review on the ban on third party databases, consistency in the implementation of PayforIt, and more action by publishers to refuse non-compliant advertis

Sally Weatherall, chairperson of AIME, said: “Under the current PPP Code of Practice, primary liability rests with the service provider. This gives the content provider no incentive to comply with the code at all. They can simply default on the fine, and move to a new aggregator – leaving the old one to pay PPP and carry the bad debt and reputation damage.”

Blyk has signed a deal with operator Mobistar, which should make Belgium the second launch country for the ad-funded MVNO.

The radical Finnish-owned firm has been in business in the UK since last September.
Blyk is a network for 16 to 24 year-olds, which offers an amount of free texts and voice calls funded by advertising. It recently announced it had passed 100,000 subscribers, and counts well over 50 advertisers