NOTAS: | This summary provides a review of operator billing payment mechanisms in 9 countries of Western Europe (Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sweden and France).
Through some sixty interviews and meetings held with operators, providers, aggregators, professional associations and regulation authorities, various aspects of the market were studied:
- Solutions rolled out by operators
- Practices in terms of consumer protection (regulation bodies, reference texts and regulations, tools for monitoring and managing consumption, etc.)
- Existing markets and growth prospects. |