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Fortumo and dtac partner for direct carrier billing in Thailand

Thursday 27 August 2015 10:09 CET | News

Mobile operator dtac (part of Telenor Group) and mobile payments company Fortumo have teamed up to launch direct carrier billing in Thailand.

Following the partnership, more than 27 million dtac subscribers will be able to pay for top digital content and gaming by charging purchases to their phone bill.

While Thailand has a population of 67 million, only 4 million people have access to credit cards, according to the World Bank. Meanwhile, more than 33 million people already own a smartphone in the country. This means that without carrier billing, gaming and digital merchants miss out on more than 85% of paying users in the country.

Fortumo’s direct carrier billing platform is currently available to 2.1 billion users of 46 different mobile operators in 13 countries in Asia (Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam). Globally, Fortumo covers approximately 300 mobile operators in 83 countries, connecting 4.6 billion end-users to its carrier billing solution.

In recent news, Huawei, a global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, has entered a partnership with Fortumo.


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Keywords: Fortumo, DTAC, direct carrier billing, Thailand, mobile payments, Telenor, phone bill, digital content, gaming
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