Payvia Debuts New Carrier Billing Platform, Offers Support For T-Mobile & Sprint
Sarah currently works as a writer for TechCrunch, after having previously spent over three years at ReadWriteWeb. Prior to becoming a professional blogger, Sarah worked in I.T. across a number of industries, including banking, retail and software. ? Learn More Today, a company called payvia is launching a new mobile payments platform for carrier billing. But unlike several in this space, payvia is not a new player in the mobile industry. The company was spun out from m-Qube, which started a transaction and carrier billing network in North America in 2004. Originally focused on supporting carrier billing for entertainment services (think ringtones, wallpaper, etc.), the goal with payvia is to help the company transition into digital goods and services. The company competes with a number of services, including Boku, Zong (now eBay-owned), Bango, Netsize, Fortumo, boxPAY, and others, and it has not been above suing its competitors for infringing on its patents in the past. But now, the ...