17 Apr 2015 07:00
zamano plc
17 April 2015
zamano plc
Interim Management Statement
17 April 2015
Zamano (AIM: ZMNO | ESM: ZAZ), the mobile payments and marketing company, today announces that it is now an approved direct carrier billing partner with Three Ireland and has successfully connected to Three Ireland for Direct Operator Billing / Carrier Billing. This connection covers all of Three's customers including those obtained during the recent acquisition of O2. Three represents approximately 36% of the mobile market in Ireland according to latest figures.
Zamano is in the process of developing the required platform infrastructure to allow merchants to sell goods directly by processing payments via direct carrier billing to Vodafone Ireland (already connected) and Three customers. Meteor, the outstanding large carrier, has approximately 18% market share. The final 8% is made up of Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs). Zamano intends connecting to Meteor's intermediate solution dubbed "Transaction SMS" while they implement full carrier billing.
Ross Conlon, CEO of Zamano plc, commented "Getting direct connections to Mobile Networks Operators' carrier billing systems is a key objective for the group and becoming an approved direct carrier billing partner with Three Ireland has taken the Group a step closer to this goal".
For further information, please contact:
zamano plc
Ross Conlon, Chief Executive Officer
Tel: + 353 1 554 7313
Michael Connolly, Chief Financial Officer
Tel: +353 1 554 7261
Investec Corporate Finance
Shane Lawlor/Conor Murtagh
Tel: + 353 1 4210000
Cenkos Securities
Derrick Lee/Neil McDonald
Tel: + 44 (0) 131 220 6939
Media Enquires:
MCOMM Communications Consultants
Richard Moore
Tel: +353 1 661 9428
Mob: +353 87 241 4751
Email: ir@zamano.com