*** MPA3 Offers New SMS Billing Option ***
 

For immediate release:

MPA3 Offers New SMS Billing Option

Marina Del Ray, California. April, 2005. MPA3 is proud to announce they have added new payment platform with mENABLE SMS Billing option. mENABLE gives websites the possibility to charge for access using Micro-Payments across the globe. The end users are charged via their mobile phone.

MPA3's groundbreaking affiliate program software and cascading billing solution has made continuous efforts to increase value and features for their customers along the way. Now MPA3 adds the new mENABLE SMS Billing to its already impressive list of payment platforms. This allows surfers of programs using MPA3 who don?t have credit cards or check accounts to pay with conveniently with their mobile phone.

This new SMS billing option will increase revenue potential for MPA3 webmasters since they will be able to carry out Micro-Billing across the globe. Customers of MPA3 can charge their users in so many countries and in so many ways with this simple and convenient plug & pay billing solution.
Currently available for more than 300 million mobile phone subscribers, mENABLE via MPA3 is the new secure and simple way to pay for Internet content. It can be used by webmasters offering premium content or services including access and memberships, online merchants, and in services such as online games and mp3 downloads.

Oystein Wright, Chief Executive Officer of Mansion Productions-? SMS Billing is the fastest growing way to pay, although it is still on the rise in the U.S, in Europe its a billion dollar market. Almost everyone has a cell phone and SMS is huge. This offers a more discrete and anonymous payment method than debit or credit cards. And of course with the MPA3s geo IP tracking the program owners can set it so that only the surfers coming from Europe or what ever country they wish for will get the pay with SMS option?.

How does it work?
The SMS payment service allows you to charge your customers via their mobile phone in more then 30 countries. When your visitor tries to access your payzone (the content you want to bill for), a payment interface displays a local short code number for SMS. Your visitor simply sends an SMS to the featured number and instantly receives an access code back by SMS. Your customer types the access code into the pop-up window and accesses the content. It?s that simple.

MPA3 will continually strive to offer webmasters with as many ways to maximize their sales potential and add value added features to build on webmasters success.

For more information about MPA3 and how you can learn more about their new SMS Billing platform visit www.mpa3.com or email [email protected]

:thumbsup

wow thats great :thumbsup

It makes me smile to see MPA3 back at the top of the pile... a great 6 months and the software and support are top notch :)

nice! :thumbsup

Excellent news Oystein .. congrats

hit me up one of these days and lets talk biz

have 2 questions
how much is the maximum amount you can charge ?

how about affiliates - Can you handle some revshare?

Thank you so much Darren. That means a heck of a lot coming from you! We have really worked hard over the past year and a half to get back on top. Customer support is now top notch, feature list is long as a cross country freight train, payment platforms supported near 20 (!), and in general - we are much better now than we were before. And that is really all we can do for you and any of our clients. :thumbsup

Vicki - I will for sure hit you up. How are you these days btw?

NyDahl - If you go here: http://m-enable.com/payouts.htm you can go by their rate cards and I do advice you to contact them directly to get more in depth information about their services.

As for revshare and affiliates - that is exactly why we integrated them into MPA3 since MPA3 is the program now controlling the revshare for the affiliates including mENABLE.

And as my partner Garry was quoted on in XBIZ today: http://www.xbiz.com/news_piece.php?id=8399

**
?SMS is huge in Europe,? Mansion Productions president Gary Oiem told XBiz from Norway. ?I saw checkbooks when I was younger, but never used checks until I came to the United States. Hardly anyone uses credit cards or checks to pay in Europe.?

MENABLE?s SMS option can be used by webmasters offering premium content or for services including access and memberships, by online merchants and for content such as online games and MP3 downloads. Oiem said that MPA3 is the first affiliate services provider to offer this payment plan.

?In Europe,? Oiem said, ?you can use your phone to buy a Coke.?

Oiem believes that European telecomm monopolies drive innovation, explaining why cellphone reception is better in Europe and why utilities like text-messaging and SMS billing are not as popular in the United States.

?You are about three years behind,? he said.

The mENABLE partnership has been in development for over two months, Oiem said, and is being offered to webmasters this week. He expects signups to grow exponentially due to the ease of use and privacy of SMS.

?If you want European signups,? he told XBiz, ?this it it.?

**

:thumbsup

I'm having a hard time choosing between nats and mpa right now ... I was gonna go with nats, but with this, it might make me switch my choice ... I always beleived in micropayments and I still don't understand why they aren't arround that much yet .

I hated the mpa crew since the shaving feature for the version 2 ... but in the last months, they have acted really profetionally with all the drama arround . Having a hard time choosing right now :)

I am not such a huge fan of sms billing right now
now every minor can join a pornsite
no need for a credit card

also the amount of $$$ you get for a sms "membership"

just 2 things that came to my mind

?SMS is huge in Europe,? Mansion Productions president Gary Oiem told XBiz from Norway. ?I saw checkbooks when I was younger, but never used checks until I came to the United States. Hardly anyone uses credit cards or checks to pay in Europe.?

ok, I guess not that many use creditcards, but everone has a debitcard and that and everyone is using them.

?In Europe,? Oiem said, ?you can use your phone to buy a Coke.? < sure you can but how many is doing that? Easier to just use the debitcard again... same as with parking, movie tickets etc etc, you can use a phone but you use the good old card as it's easier...

Awesome - This is setting a new standard :thumbsup

Awesome!!! MPA and its team are always up to something new!!! Top notch company!!!

AdultLounge.com is very very happy with MPA3 as our affiliate software!!!

Great News :thumbsup

Great news indeed ;)

I like 3 word posts to me the longer the posts are the less im likely to read them and thats why im going to give a 3 word post. But first i need to finish my preamble with is several sentences long. But thats Ok its still delicious. Mansion utilizing SMS thats . . .

Pretty fucking sweeet :)

Yes its hard to get in exsactly what you meant in a interview like this. It would be to much to read and booring if I where to explain everything in there :)

Yes many have a credit card, but its fare from the majority. And even the once that have one dont use it much. They use debit cards for the most. Compared to the US its hardly anyone. That is what I tried to say there.

As for the buying a coke. I totally agree with you, it would be much easier to use cash OR your debit card, BUT that was not the point there. The point where that in Europa it is possible to do and that is how fare the sms billing system has come in Europa.

And to everyone, thanks for the great comments. We try hard to stay on top and we will continue to do so. We are here for you guys, so please feel free to contact me or anyone of us here at Mansion if you have any questions or suggestions !

Nice work, guys.

Well I'm a little bit older but the boobies haven't sagged yet! rofl
doing well thank you and see you are also .. i'm sure i'll be sending more clients your way for their cascading/affiliate/member management/etc/etc/etc needs ;)

I look forward to the email :)

Email sent :-) And hey, my man boobs ARE sagging - so you are better off than I :winkwink: