Direct carrier billing platform vendor Fortumo announced its deal with China’s digital entertainment company Changyou for its Mobogenie app store.
The billing contract enables developers publishing apps on Mobogenie to use Fortumo’s Android 1-click payment SDK to generate revenue from users in 83 countries.
“Carrier billing provides access to online payments for any phone owner, making it one of the most popular billing methods in Asia. Mobogenie can now expand to overseas markets while enabling developers to make a profit from this expansion,” said Gewben Wu, head of Fortumo China.
Changyou’s Mobogenie app store has over 400 million users outside of China with 80 million active daily users. More than 1.8 billion apps are downloaded from the store each month. Besides Android app store, Mobogenie develops a PC version of its app store allowing users to transfer files, backup data, communicate via SMS and manage apps on the user’s phone.
Fortumo on expansion spree
Recently, Fortumo announced co-operation with Telenor Pakistan and Turkcell for direct carrier billing, launched a physical goods store using carrier billing in Singapore with Rovio and SingTel, provided billing to Oppo and Gionee and opened three new offices in China (Shanghai), India (Mumbai) and Singapore.
Fortumo’s direct carrier billing platform is available to 2.2 billion users of 48 mobile operators in 13 Asian countries in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam. Globally, Fortumo covers more than 300 mobile operators in 83 countries, connecting 4.6 billion end-users to its carrier billing solution.
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