The Internet of Things (IoT) is seen as the biggest business opportunity of 2017 by nearly half of visitors and exhibitors at Mobile World Congress surveyed by the GSMA (48.2%), followed by mobile payments (14.5%) and artificial intelligence (14%).
“On the subject of monetisation, we next asked our respondents what they saw as mobile operators’ roles in the mobile payments ecosystem. A large role was seen for operators here. 39,2% of respondents said that mobile operators’ role should be to support banks and financial institutions, while 34,5% said that operators are trusted payment providers in their own right. However, some were skeptical, with almost 10% saying that operators shouldn’t have a role in mobile payments and 16,3% saying that consumer brands, such as Apple, are better placed than operators.”, according to Mobile World Daily.
In terms of IoT opportunities, the survey highlighted the “opportunity for mobile operators to play a greater role in the IoT value chain than simply providing the connectivity”.
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„So many people are coming here to Bucharest, people that I see and interact on linkedin and now I get the change to meet them in person. It was like being to the Football World Cup but this was the World Cup on linkedin in payments and open banking.”
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