Bango PLC BGO Facebook Payments live in France

  Bango PLC (BGO) - Facebook Payments live in France

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Bango PLC
19 November 2012
 

19 November 2012

                                  BANGO PLC

                          ("Bango" or "the Company")

                                       

                       Facebook Payments live in France

 

Bango plc (AIM:BGO), the mobile payments and analytics company, announces that
operator billing for purchases on Facebook, powered by Bango, is now live  for 
Orange France subscribers.

 

Orange smartphone customers are now able to pay for digital goods and services
on Facebook's mobile website, charging the cost to their phone bill. For  more 
information                            please                             see: 
http://news.bango.com/2012/11/18/announcement-from-our-partner-orange-france/.
Orange, owned by France Telecom, is the largest mobile operator in France with
approximately 26 million subscribers.

 

Ray Anderson, Bango CEO, commented: "We are delighted to be powering  operator 
billing in France for Facebook.  The enhanced user experience for  smartphones 
and other  connected mobile  devices  means that  Facebook users  who  connect 
either through the  Orange network  or through  WiFi can  consistently pay  on 
their Orange France phone  bill. Bango and Facebook  are currently working  on 
rolling out this  new development  across the  rest of  France and  additional 
markets in Europe."

 

Contact Details:

 

Bango plc            Newgate Threadneedle  Cenkos Securities plc
Tel. +44 1223 472777 Tel. +44 207 653 9850 Tel. +44 207 397 8900

www.bango.com                               
Ray Anderson, CEO    Caroline Evans-Jones  Ken Fleming
Peter Saxton, CFO    Fiona Conroy          Neil McDonald

 

 

About Bango

In the era of mobile technology, collecting payments has emerged as a  central 
and complex challenge. Bango  (AIM: BGO) powers payment  and analytics on  the 
mobile web, providing users with a massively smooth payment experience.

 

Bango's pervasive  presence  across the  web  creates a  platform  effect  for 
partners, identifying hundreds of millions of users and maximizing the  number 
of one  click payments.  Global  leaders plug  into Bango:  customers  include 
Facebook, BlackBerry App World, Windows  Phone Store, Amazon and major  mobile 
brands including CNN, Cartoon Network and EA Mobile. Visit: bango.com

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