The US mobile payments and analytics company Bango, which allows customers to make payments on their mobile phones, which are then charged to their monthly phone bill, has just made its mobile payment platform available to one billion mobile subscribers.

Bango allows users to place charges on their phone bills for purchases made directly from the mobile device, including tablets, to their monthly phone account. Bango's mobile device billing is automatically authenticated through its partnerships with mobile carriers.

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This is another part of the evidence that collecting payments via mobile devices is going to be huge and that the payment channels used may not be the standard channels, such as MasterCard and Visa. The scale of Bango coverage is shown by their recently completed integration with global social network Facebook, providing Facebook mobile web carrier billing in Germany, the UK and the US.