RIM is on its way to developing the new Blackberry 10 OS, and its progressing quick in that direction. It has announced that more than 50 carriers have integrated carrier billing services with its Blackberry App World. This service has also been implemented along with the Blackberry payment service, which allows developers to offer in-app and subscription based services. RIM has also emphasised how the carrier billing feature has resulted in an increase in sales of the mobile applications and also resulted in greater revenues for carriers, developers and RIM itself. It definitely makes the customer comfortable and manifests itself in the form of an easier payment option as opposed to others such as credit and debit cards which might be relatively less secure too. Commenting on this announcement, Ronjon Nag, Vice President for the BlackBerry App World storefront at RIM, said: “We’re delighted to announce that over 50 of our carrier partners are now offering integrated carrier billing to customers
on BlackBerry App World. We remain committed to developing innovative ways to support our carrier partners, while providing a platform that benefits the whole mobile ecosystem.” RIM has been using Bango’s mobile payment platform for implementing this particular feature which allows developers to charge payments directly to their mobile phone bill. Such features are crucial for the platform which has been slowly waning into an abyss of darkness for the past one year. The company has been trying hard to attract more and more developers in order to make the platform look attractive for the consumers too. Though Indian carriers have not yet been added to the list of these 50 carriers, but hopefully deals with popular carriers in the India should be worked out soon otherwise RIM would be ignoring a large chunk of its consumers which form a huge market potential. For further details, also read our interview with Sarim Aziz from the Developer Relations team at RIM. To access the complete list, you may visit the website here.
