German Red Cross launches WhatsApp chatbot to answer COVID-19 questions

The German Red Cross (DRK) has launched a nationwide chatbot service to answer all questions about the coronavirus, COVID-19. Integrated with the popular chat app whatsApp, the chatbot was developed

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Mobile operators to accept e-SIM as inevitable, but will add software locks to limit switching between networks

Looking at the year ahead, Thorsten Trapp, CTO of tyntec, expects MNOs to live with eSIMs, monetise user data more, and yet lose more ground to OTTs.

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Majority of mobile network operators unprepared for A2P monetization

Latest market research by mobilesquared and sponsored by tyntec, finds that 75% of mobile network operators (MNOs) do not have the measures in place to control and monetise Application-to-Person (A2P)

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The benefits of partnerships between OTTs and operators

According to mobilesquared, the mobile network operator (MNO) opportunity for OTT communication globally will be worth US$42.9 billion in 2018, up from $4.2 billion in revenues in 2014. The partnership

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81% of UK employees want personal and corporate comms separate

tyntec, a telecom-web convergence company, reveals that whilst 43% of UK employees use their personal mobile for work, eight in ten would prefer to keep their private and corporate communications

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