SMS was the surprise discovery as a way to collect impulse payments for mobile content. The ready access to payment on the phone and the inbuilt capacity to handle to support thousands of users` transactions led to the wide use of SMS for small transactions. According to Jupiter Research more than 1.4 billion euros revenue was generated for mobile operators via pSMS across Europe in 2004.

Mobile content could be about to receive a big boost with the recent news of a single price for music downloads from Vodafone and the other UK operators said to be following shortly behind, increasing the pressure to address the issues around pSMS.

Although pSMS will be with us for a while yet, various new m-payment approaches are about to change the mobile payments landscape for both consumers and content providers.

This event will look at the new mobile payments from several diferent angles and look at the impact on the mobile content industry.

Speakers confirmed so far:

• Roy Vella, Head of Mobile Services, PayPal Europe

  With 10 million subscribers in the UK and 100 million worldwide, PayPal has the credibility to make a big impact on payments through mobiles.

  Roy is an active entrepreneur & advisor to several Silicon Valley companies. He joined the Business Development Team of PayPal's Merchant Services Group after serving as VP, Sales & Marketing at 4charity, Inc. managing in-house sales and marketing group. Prior to 4charity, he was partner at QTV Capital, assisting portfolio companies of VC firm focus their sales & marketing initiatives.

• Jeremy Flynn, Head of Commercial Partnerships, Vodafone UK

  With Vodafone about to roll out X-Pay, we'll hear at first hand what will be on offer

  Jeremy Flynn joined Vodafone UK at the beginning of 2003 to develop the Commercial Partnership sector, an increasingly important area for Vodafone which has recently been experiencing impressive growth. As Head of Commercial Partnerships he is charged with driving Vodafone’s position in the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) market, and in the sale of network enablers for the Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) content industry.Before joining Vodafone, Jeremy worked at Motorola as Marketing Director on the BT/O2 accounts. Prior to this he worked as Product Group Manager for NTL Wholesale before becoming Product Portfolio Manager, NTL Business. Jeremy has a BA (Hons) in Russian and an MSc in Marketing.

• Ashley Ward, CEO, Upaid

  Ashley Ward has over 20 years' experience in leading companies and has a proven track record of driving organizations through change to improve and turn around their performance. Before joining Upaid in 2002 Ashley was at the helm of Orchestream, a company he steered to successful floatation on both the London and NASDAQ stock exchanges. Prior to this, as Managing Director he was charged with the task of driving Cray Communications' return to profitability. He split the organisation into Case Technology and Anite Networks, the manufacturing operations being sold to Intel, which enabled taking Anite Networks to profitability and subsequent acquisition by Cable & Wireless. From 1992 to 1994 Ashley was Managing Director at Laserline Ltd. while at the same time serving as Chairman of Cognito Ltd., one of the world's first profitable mobile data network operators. He had previously been Chief Executive Office at Wharfdale Group Plc., a well-known manufacturer of domestic and professional services.

  

• Andrew Bud, co-founder and Executive Chairman, mBlox

  Andrew is also a founder and Vice-Chair of the global Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF).

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