Sponsor Spotlight: Oxygen8 Group

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It’s fair to say that interactive mobile services are fast becoming a viable business strategy for many organisations and with the UK mobile market penetration at 92%, it’s easy to see why! Customers want immediate access to the information that they are seeking. Failing to offer the right channels to provide real-time interaction will see businesses lose out to those quick to embrace innovative communication technologies.

Oxygen8 Group, headquarters in the UK, is a global provider of integrated voice and mobile solutions in the micro and digital payments market. With annual revenues in excess of £105 million, Oxygen8 is privately owned, profitable and debt free. We offer a value led approach to partnering with clients, in order to maximise their activities and revenues for mutual, sustainable marketplace growth.

As a voice network operator and SMS aggregator, we deliver billing services such as SMS (premium and bulk), MMS, Direct Operator Billing, Voice Short Codes, Premium, Geo and Non-Geo voice number ranges. These are underpinned by our hosted platforms for Voice and IVR services, SMS campaign builders, CRM engagement and optimisation tools offering comprehensive statistics, analysis and MI tools.

Oxygen8’s support is delivered through locally based offices around the globe, with operations and offices in the UK, Ireland, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, US and Canada, Australia, Caribbean (Barbados) and Asia (Singapore).

Oxygen8’s Geographic Reach:

VOICE:

– International free phone – 127 countries

– International geographic numbers – 113 countries

– Premium rate numbers – 59 countries

– Universal International free phone – 48 countries

– International Premium Rate Numbers  – 59 billing routes available with accessibility to over 228 networks

– UK Non-geographic Number ranges – accessible from 22 countries

– UK personal numbering – accessible from 22 countries

SMS:

– PSMS – 86 countries

– Bulk SMS – 218 countries

Simplifying Payments…

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Our portfolio of payment solutions is easy to integrate into your sales strategy.

Oxygen8PAY, our PCI compliant e-commerce, mobile and IVR card payments solution, offers a range of different payment options using the mobile handset:

– Premium SMS & Voice: a simple way to pay for services and products via the mobile handset, no time consuming registration processes or providing personal card details.

– PayForIt: consumers do not need a credit card or membership with any payment service provider to pay for your digital goods online, making this another easy way to pay for products and services via their mobile phone.

– Online and IVR credit card payments: allows your customers to purchase products and services via your call handling (IVR) and mobile solutions (web). The application talks directly with your customers bank, returning an authorisation code, creating a quick, easy and discreet method of paying for your products.

NEW to our portfolio:

7 digit voice short codes

We have recently added 7 digit voice short codes to our portfolio. 7 digit voice short codes are based on our existing 5 digit short code service with a two number suffix added at the end, we have up to 100 extensions available in the ranges of ‘00’ to ‘99’.

There are many benefits to using 7 digit voice short codes:

– Create up to 100 individual numbers from a single 5 digit number
– Clear pricing for the consumer
– Easy to use
– Memorable

Changing Consumer Communications…

Our mission is to help businesses create a more direct, personal and meaningful way to connect with customers and our state of the art web based mobile marketing platform Evolve does just that. We want our customers to embrace the power of mobile as a multi-channel tool for communicating directly with consumers, ensuring it is personal and meaningful.

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Our platform also allows businesses to create, schedule and send highly-targeted SMS campaigns, as well as the ability to incorporate imagery, video and audio through its HTML5 mobile page builder.

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Evolve has the power to close the loop on customer communications, linking into our payment and voice platforms, meaning that customers can react to offers instantaneously.

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We hold an unrivalled portfolio, providing billing in 110 countries worldwide, offering your business the chance to access billions of potential customers. Our clients trust us to deliver their mobile solutions and handle any and all complexities and processes their individual business has to address to ensure safe and secure mobile payment activities.

To find out more about Oxygen8, why not download one of our brochures, view one of our infographics or watch one of our videos here.

If you would like to arrange a meeting to speak with one of our team then please click here 

DMG Media selects Fonix for Mobile Messaging & Interactive Services

DMG Media part of Daily Mail & General Trust plc has partnered with Fonix Interactive for mobile messaging, marketing and interactive services across their core media brands and publications including the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday and Metro

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 LONDON, UK — June, 2014 — Fonix Interactive (Fonix) who specialise in mobile messaging, payment and interactive mobile services and DMG Media one of Europe’s largest media groups have announced an exclusive 2 year partnership. Fonix has been appointed as the mobile services provider, using Fonix’s state of the art mobile messaging gateway delivering interactive mobile services across DMG’s publishing portfolio.

The partnership is focused on driving innovative and interactive mobile campaigns that engage audiences, add value and foster engagement.

Jonathan Creber, Commercial Director of DMG Media Mobile and TV said “We have a very loyal and interactive audience that engages with our brands through various channels. Offering interactive mobile services allows us to provide added value to, and develop deeper relationships with, our consumers in addition to building an even richer profile of our core audience.”

Rob Weisz, CEO of Fonix Interactive said, “DMG Media has a great range of content and has been running successful mobile interactive services for a number of years. We are thrilled to have been selected to be their partner of choice to drive engagement and revenue through interactive mobile campaigns and performance optimisation marketing. We believe the way we analyse direct and contextually relevant data associated with the services to increase the performance through CRM and marketing is unrivalled in this market space.’’

 

About Fonix

Fonix offer mobile messaging and payment solutions through proprietary and contemporary technology and platforms. They provide a strategic managed service that focuses on operational processes, performance optimisation, generating interactivity and revenue for customer partners.

 

About DMG Media

DMG Media is the consumer business of Daily Mail & General Trust plc – an international group quoted on the London Stock Exchange with a portfolio of market leading digital, information, media and events businesses.

DMG Media comprises the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday, Metro, Jobsite, Wowcher and Zoopla Property Group. 

Sponsor Spotlight: OpenMarket

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Enterprises in all industries and across all geographies recognise that mobile communications are dramatically altering how we engage with each other. Mobile is influencing which brands we buy, changing the companies we work for, and further driving the requirement for personalised, relevant customer and employee engagement.

 

Mobile Engagement Platform

OpenMarket provides a secure and reliable platform for major enterprises to engage their key audiences with a service commitment to back it up. Their market experience and trusted relationships with mobile operators across the globe enable faster time to market, and ongoing delivery and support for your mobile initiatives. In addition, the OpenMarket payments platform offers a low-friction, convenient, safe and dependable way for your customers to pay. Furthermore, the company works closely with AIME and Phonepayplus to ensure that all its payments customers respect the Phonepayplus Code of Practice.

 

Enterprises choose OpenMarket as their mobile partner for a number of reasons: domain expertise, service flexibility, demonstrated network performance and reliability, global scale and corporate maturity.

 

Domain Expertise: OpenMarket resolves the complexities and fragmentation of the mobile ecosystem by providing expertise in mobile engagement solutions, regulatory compliance and industry best practices.

•          15 years of industry experience powering thousands of mobile campaigns

•          Award-winning, live 24/7 technical support services, spanning all time zones

 

Service Flexibility: OpenMarket’s portfolio of solutions, flexible Mobile Engagement Platform and professional services allow enterprises to support multiple use cases for customers and employees.

•          APIs and Service Editor support customisation across use cases and enable developers and business users to create and manage mobile programs.

•          Support for smart and interactive messaging across multiple mobile channels, including SMS, MMS, push notifications, payments, email and voice, enabling you to meet business needs

•          The platform’s workflow engine manages the heavy lifting, including the service flow logic, the message channels used, inputs from internal and external sources, and message personalisation.

 

Demonstrated Performance and Reliability: Global enterprises trust OpenMarket with their mobile engagement business because of their scalable and highly reliable platform, industry-leading SLAs and operational expertise.

•          Industry-leading, cloud-based Mobile Engagement Platform allows enterprises to create custom mobile solutions without the need for their own technical infrastructure

•          400+ enterprise customers, including 4 out of the top 10 global brands; ability to reach 3 billion mobile users

•          Flexible, scalable platform architecture, processing over 1 billion messaging interactions per month

•          Demonstrated 99.99% availability using autonomous, geo-redundant systems

 

Global Scale: A number of the world’s largest enterprises choose OpenMarket for their global reach, market leadership, capacity and support, helping them engage with their customers and employees globally.

•          Connectivity to more than 200 countries globally, accessing 3 billion mobile users while processing over 1 billion messaging interactions per month

•          Serving more than 400 enterprises worldwide with an experienced staff of 200

 

Corporate Maturity: Enterprises partner with OpenMarket for their breadth of solutions, industry expertise, financial stability, mature business practices, data security and privacy policies. All of which help minimise business risk and optimise ROI.

•          15 years of experience delivering mobile engagement solutions across different organisational departments, industries and mobile channels

•          A wholly owned subsidiary of Amdocs (NASDAQ: DOX), a multibillion dollar public company with 250+ service provider customers in 70 countries

•          Mature security and privacy standards including adherence to country-specific regulations, Safe Harbor, PCI and GLBA compliance, and targeting ISO27001 certification

 

To find out more about OpenMarket visit www.openmarket.com.

 

Sponsor Spotlight: ImpulsePay

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Impulse Pay is one of the leading Payforit provider.

Through ImpulsePay, business of all sizes can now offer Payforit to their customers as an easy method of payment.

Backed by all the UK operators, mobile billing can increase your revenue by 50%.

ImpulsePay can be used across a wide range of Industries.

ImpulsePay launched in 2009 by Interlinked Media Ltd (a UK/US Marketing business which was sold in 2010), ImpulsePay is now an independent, profitable and growing UK business.

Our dashboard provides instant reporting, meaning you always have an accurate statement of every single payment through your account.

Pioneers for Payforit: We’ve worked extensively with the mobile networks and the industry organisation AIME to help create the latest iteration of Payforit.

With Payforit 4 from ImpulsePay, you can now embed the payment window directly onto your website or mobile web app. This ensures customers are never directed away from your site, they can pay quickly and easily within your branded checkout environment – with the reassurance of a secure transaction.

Our input into the Payforit working group was instrumental in shaping Payforit 4, and we continue to work with the industry in bringing new features to Payforit.All revenue is automatically paid to you 45 days after the end of the month, no waiting 2 or 3 months for your money to arrive.

If a customer is browsing on a mobile data connection (3G, gprs) ImpulsePay can automatically detect the mobile number and present a single click payment screen. There is no need for a customer to enter any of their details whatsoever, they simply click the ‘Buy Now’ button to make the payment.

 

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With Payforit 4’s new Click&Pay functionality, ImpulsePay can now send a text message with a direct link to the merchant’s payment page.

When the customer reaches the payment page, they are presented with an auto-detect payment screen, regardless of what type of connection they are on, increasing the likelihood of a purchase.

 

For more information please visit their site: www.impulsepay.com