CAMBRIDGE, England,
June 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/
-- Bango (AIM: BGO), the mobile commerce company, announces
that it has enabled carrier billing for mobile operator SoftBank
Corp., on Amazon.co.jp. Amazon customers with a SoftBank mobile
phone account can now pay for goods, membership fees and
subscription services, and charge the cost to their mobile phone
bill.
To use this payment option, a SoftBank subscriber simply adds
carrier billing as a payment option in their Amazon.co.jp account
and then purchases can be made from any device, with the cost
charged to their phone bill.
Bango now powers carrier billing for Amazon.co.jp across
Japan's three largest operators,
adding SoftBank in addition to NTT Docomo and KDDI. With
177M subscriptions (source: Statista
2020) across a population of 130M
(source: World Bank), Japan is one
of the most highly penetrated mobile markets in the world.
Carrier billing enables customers to make purchases instantly,
without the need to enter their card details online. It is a highly
effective way to acquire, monetize and engage customers. Bango
technology ensures payment reliability, security and customer
success.
"Bango technology has ensured that our customers can enjoy a
simple and successful way to buy on Amazon.co.jp" said
Toshiaki Hirata, Board Director,
Senior Vice President & CSO, SB Payment Service
Corp., a subsidiary of SoftBank
Corp. "We look forward to benefiting from Bango data
insights to accelerate the growth of our new business".
"Japan's high spending
population leads the world in mobile commerce. Charging the cost of
goods to the phone bill is a widely adopted payment method, with
billions of dollars in online purchases charged to Japanese phone
bills," said Paul Larbey,
Bango CEO. "The Bango Platform meets the challenge of
delivering carrier billing at scale, ensuring global retailers can
provide customers with the convenience and security they want from
a payment method".
About Bango
App developers, stores and payment providers cross the threshold
into the Bango ecosystem to converge, grow and thrive. By bringing
businesses together and powering e-commerce with unique data-driven
insights, Bango delivers new business opportunities and new
dimensions of growth for customers around the world. Being inside
the Bango circle means global merchants including Amazon (NASDAQ:
AMZN), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) can work
together with payment partners from Africa to the Americas, accelerating the
performance of everyone on the inside.
Bango. Think inside the circle. For more information, visit
www.bango.com
Contact Details:
Bango
PLC
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FTI
Consulting
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finnCap
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Tel. +44 333 077
0247
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Tel. +44 203 727
1000
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Tel. +44 207 200
0500
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Ray Anderson, Exec
Chair
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Rob
Mindell
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Marc
Milmo
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Paul Larbey,
CEO
Carolyn Rand,
CFO
Anil Malhotra,
CMO
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Darius
Alexander
Leah
Dudley
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James
Thompson
Matthew
Radley
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