Bango takes care of the AT&T Gateway changes for Content Providers

You may have seen an AT&T notification regarding the addition of a new WAP Gateway.
Bango makes sure that the all the necessary changes are made and no impact is felt on you, the Content Provider.
A copy of the AT&T notification can be found here.

Updated integration guidelines on Bango support

We have updated the following guides:
1. Event Notification guide where we have added a new event source and the network ID’s to all events.
2. Safe Subscriptions guide detailing how you can implement a Initial price offer to a user, collecting renewal payments and subscription status codes.
Have a look at Bango.com in the support section to [...]

Bango’s US office will be CLOSED November 27th and 28th

In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday, Bango’s U.S. office will be closed Thursday, November 27, and Friday November 28th, 2008, and will re-open Monday December 1st.
If your site experiences a severity 1 or severity 2 issue, please submit an incident using the procedures defined in your service documentation.
The UK office is open on these days.

Update to changes for UK VAT rates

The UK government is reducing the VAT rate from 17.5% to 15% on the 1st of December. As you know, content and services sold on mobile in the European Union are liable to tax at the UK VAT rate, which the Bango Payment system automatically takes care of for you. If we consider a typical [...]

Changes to UK VAT

Yesterday the UK government announced a VAT change from 17.5% to 15% from 1st December 2008. 
Our Finance team are currently working through the changes and we’ll notify you of any impact as soon as possible.

Live bidding on Bango directory starts today

Live bidding for keywords in the auction for the Bango Directory begins later today.
Live bidding for each of the top 4 positions begins at these times: 
Position 1 – 24/11/08 3pm GMT
Position 2 – 25/11/08 3pm GMT
Position 3 – 26/11/08 3pm GMT
Position 4 – 27/11/08 3pm GMT
Log in to your Management Tools and start bidding in [...]

Updating Country names on the Bango System

According to the ISO 3166 standard, a number of Country names have been updated to reflect changing political borders and Country names. As such, we are updating the Country names and operator networks in our systems to reflect the changes.
We are going to make the changes on the 12th January 2009.  So there is no [...]

Rating your content correctly in the UK

Recently we have noticed an increase in the number of reports from the UK operators regarding guideline breaches.
To help you avoid these problems we would like to take this opportunity to remind you about the content rating and campaign guidelines.
Content Rating
In the UK there are 2 content ratings, U (universal) and R (adult).
The following links [...]

Verizon transcodes mobile websites

Verizon have implemented transcoding on all sites accessed on their network.
Please visit: www.vzwdevelopers.com to register your mobile website to stop it being modified, topped and tailed or otherwise modified, and follow Verizon’s instructions to prevent your sites being adapted.
Unfortunately, Verizon will not accept submissions made by Bango on your behalf.
Please note that this only affects [...]

Bango Directory Auction Opens

The auction for the Bango Directory opens today.
Log in to your Management Tools and have a look at the Search & Discovery section for more information and how to bid.