US-based carrier billing solutions provider Boku has acquired (pdf) Germany-based competitor Mopay for an undisclosed amount. Following this acquisition, Boku will have a presence in 80 countries and claims that it will reach close to 5 billion customers. Both Boku and Mopay have a presence in India. Boku entered India in November 2013 by acquiring Qubecell, and Mopay launched its operations in India in May 2014 with an HTML5 in-app billing solution. Boku supports payments from Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, Tata Docomo, Loop Mobile, MTNL and Uninor, while Mopay had claimed that its direct carrier billing platform will be available “on all large Indian carriers”. This deal will bring together a number of valued content companies on a single platform, including Valve (makers of DOTA), Gameloft, and Wargaming from Mopay and Facebook, Sony, Spotify, and Electronic Arts from Boku’s existing set of clients. The integration of Boku and Mopay’s systems is expected to be completed by the end of 2015, when both systems would be on a single platform. It’s worth noting that Boku used to power Facebook’s mobile payments in India, though that didn’t last for long. Online video streaming service Spuul had also tied-up with Boku to enable operator billing option for Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular customers in November last year. Other players: Estonia based mobile payment provider Fortumo had setup its Indian office in New Delhi last year. The company had signed agreements with four Indian telcos - Vodafone, Airtel, Idea and Tata Docomo – in September…
