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Who are the
Mobile Ecosystem Forum?

The Mobile Ecosystem Forum is a global trade association. Our members are companies whose products power mobile services such as messaging, content, advertising and IoT. Join MEF to advance in mobile.

Why join MEF?
Insight

MEF pools the expertise of its members to create reports, white papers, conferences and other educational documents.

Interaction

Our members collaborate with – and learn from – each other via webinars, virtual and physical events, working groups and informal networking.

Impact

As a trusted and independent authority, MEF can affect market behaviour. Our members collaborate on best practice schemes, industry code of conducts, anti-fraud initiatives, registries, regulatory consultations and more.

Introducing MEF’s

8 SECTOR programmes

Mobile Services

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Content & Advertising
Payment & Commerce
ID & Data
ID & Data
Enterprise Communications

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Customer Experience
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Explore each of the
8 sectors that shape
the mobile ecosystem

MEF members do the ‘heavy lifting’ in the mobile space. To help them develop robust ecosystems, MEF runs six market-specific programmes. Each one gives members a forum to share best practices, create new initiatives and meet new partners…

Enterprise Communications

Mobile messaging gives enterprises the most direct and personal communication channel imaginable. And new areas such as conversational commerce, bots, omnichannel and OTT services are taking the market to new places.
Yet there is so much room for growth. 97% of firms have yet to try business messaging. MEF’s Enterprise Communications provides a forum in which stakeholders can discuss market growth, fraud and next-generations services.

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Payments

Mobile payment can be many things: a contactless card in a phone (Apple Pay); a mobile-only currency (M-Pesa); a wallet that uses QR codes (WeChat Pay); paying for things via the phone bill (direct carrier billing).
In all cases, a web of stakeholders must ensure mobile payment is safe, legal, easy to use and widely available.
MEF’s Payments programme brings these industry participants together in a place to share information and propose industry-wide solutions.

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Connectivity

In the formative years of mobile, the ‘wholesale’ sector played a key role in evolving the industry. From roaming to messaging, wholesalers helped MNOs to deliver breakthrough products.
Today, these firms operate in a world moving to 5G software- based telecoms. This creates opportunities, but also challenges around fraud and malpractice.
MEF’s Connectivity programme gives the wholesale community a setting in which to examine these issues and work together to resolve them.

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Mobile Internet of Things

The IoT revolution will be powered by mobile. Mobile has the range, bandwidth and capacity to make the predicted 25bn IoT connections a reality by 2030.
Making objects smart will transform every industry. But only if the mobile IoT is secure, and its products work seamlessly together.
MEF’s Mobile IoT programme exists to give stakeholders a forum in which they can work through the challenges around cybersecurity, connectivity and standardisation.

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Personal Data and Identity

Who are you? A simple question. But if you can’t answer it with confidence, every transaction is susceptible to deception and fraud.
In a digital world, the old ways of proving identity don’t work. As a result, people, firms and now ‘things’ are looking for new ways to answer the ‘who are you’ question.
MEF’s Personal Data and Identity programme brings together industry stakeholders to analyse possible solutions and explore their impact on privacy, security and compliance.

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Content and Advertising

20 years ago mobile content was born. The first products were ringtones and wallpapers. But these modest beginnings spawned an app economy now worth more than $120 billion.
Yet the evolution of the market is far from over. Questions remain around billing, ad formats, fraud, regional variations, revenue shares and more.
In the MEF’s Content and Advertising programme, members meet regularly to hear about new ideas, share best practice and forge new partnerships.

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Our global membership represents the total mobile ecosystem connecting across borders, sectors and company size.
2,754
Members
62
Countries
3,800
Working Groups
Shaping the future of the mobile ecosystem

Default descriptionMEF provides its Members with global and cross-sector platforms for networking, collaboration and advancing industry solutions. Companies of all sizes & stages leverage MEF’s collaborative platforms to network & learn.

comment descThe MEF is the framework where relevant debates and significant initiatives to change our market take place.
Telecoming, as well as other players of the mobile industry, participates with the firm intention of driving business growth in a healthy environment and promoting innovation. Our company was founded in 2008 on these two ideas, and since then, we have worked with the solid conviction of developing cutting-edge technology to lead the DCB market.ription

Cyrille Thivat
CEO

comment descThe MEF is the framework where relevant debates and significant initiatives to change our market take place.
Telecoming, as well as other players of the mobile industry, participates with the firm intention of driving business growth in a healthy environment and promoting innovation. Our company was founded in 2008 on these two ideas, and since then, we have worked with the solid conviction of developing cutting-edge technology to lead the DCB market.ription

Cyrille Thivat
CEO

comment descThe MEF is the framework where relevant debates and significant initiatives to change our market take place.
Telecoming, as well as other players of the mobile industry, participates with the firm intention of driving business growth in a healthy environment and promoting innovation. Our company was founded in 2008 on these two ideas, and since then, we have worked with the solid conviction of developing cutting-edge technology to lead the DCB market.ription

Cyrille Thivat
CEO
MEF

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2024
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