Imagine a day in the not-too-distant future when you sit searching an app on your phone. You find something you want to buy, but you don’t have your credit card to hand. No worries, you can purchase the item directly, with the payment being charged to your phone bill. This is the future envisioned by Lebanese mobile carrier Touch and developer services company Apstrata. The two companies have teamed up to provide an impressive set of tools that programmers will use to develop mobile apps to make your life a little simpler. Related articles: PayPal – a breakthrough for Lebanese e-commerce? Beirut City Centre Mall – a work in progress The most significant and exciting of these tools for consumers is operator billing, whereby customers can buy goods in the application, with the amount deducted from your mobile account balance or added to your monthly phone bill. “There is strong
Ben is a Beirut based investigative journalist. He served as Executive's resident data geek from 2013 to 2014, and as managing editor from 2014 to 2015.
