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More Payments Moving to Phone Bills

Carrier billing provider Boku has partnered with UK mobile network operators O2, EE and Vodafone to make it possible for customers to charge public transport tickets, takeaway food, cups of coffee and other “click and collect” physical world purchases to their mobile phone bill. Boku has been providing carrier billing for digital content purchases for five years and works with 260 carriers around the world. It has made the move into physical world payments after getting an e-money license that enables it to operate outside of the European Union’s Payment Services Directive (PSD) regulations, which limits carrier billing purchases to digital content.

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