DCB payment

Taken from mobilepaymentstoday.com article

Direct Carrier Billing opportunity

Direct carrier billing, also known as direct operator billing, is a mobile-payment method that flies well under the radar these days. It does not grab headlines like Apple Pay or Starbucks despite millions of consumers using it to purchase digital content, parking meter time and event tickets.

But mobile network operators increasingly are seeking to add direct carrier billing to their arsenal as consumers continue to purchase content from app stores at a high rate.

Direct carrier billing will provide telecoms worldwide with more than $12 billion in revenue in 2022, according to one prediction from research firm Analysys Mason. Juniper Research believes in Europe alone the value of digital content billed via direct carrier billing will reach more than 5.2 billion euros (US$7.1 billion) in 2017.