Billing

O2 Germany supports billing Windows Phone Store purchases to wireless account

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By George Ponder, Tuesday, Mar 5, 2013 at 7:45 pm

Windows Phone customers on O2 Germany have had the option to pay for Windows Phone Store purchases with a credit card or through their PayPal account. But direct billing to their wireless account wasn't possible.

Until now.

O2 will now let customers bill their app and game purchases from the Windows Phone Store to their O2 wireless account. When purchasing an item from the Windows Phone Store, just choose the "Add or switch payment methods" option before confirming the purchase and you should see the option to bill your O2 account.

Source: wparea; Thanks, Olaf and WPfreak8, for the tip!

Australians hit with extra charges for purchasing apps in the Marketplace

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By Daniel Rubino, Wednesday, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:20 pm

It's already rough enough for a lot of our international readers who will read about an app only to find it's not listed in their localized Marketplace. Or even worse, they don't have a Marketplace of to call their own (hi Sweden!). In Australia they do have their own Marketplace but as Long Zheng reports, there's a 101% transaction fee on top of every app purchase with a credit card.

This has to do with where the transactions are processed (Singapore) and that whole international banking situation. Australians are encouraged to use carrier billing as an alternative until, hopefully, Microsoft fixes the situation. Long Zheng is quick to point out he doesn't think Microsoft is doing this on purpose (and they don't seem to benefit from it) but nonetheless, it's just bad when a $0.99 app costs you $1.99.

Source: iStartedSomething

AT&T changes its billing system

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By Phil Nickinson, Thursday, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:57 pm

AT&T is sending out e-mail notifications to wireless subscribers in certain markets letting them know that next month their account will be converted to a national billing platform. In the notification AT&T explains how some the change might impact your current account as follows:

You will see some slight differences in how charges are displayed on your invoice.
You will be assigned a new billing account number. It will appear on your first bill after conversion.
You will receive a new payment remittance address (known as a “lockbox”).
Your new lockbox address will appear on your first bill after conversion. Accounts Payable information may need to be updated, particularly if you use an automated purchasing system.
Your Monthly Service Discount which you receive due to a qualified company affiliation will apply to the monthly service charge of the primary wireless number only. It does not apply for add-a-line plans.
If you receive a Monthly Service Discount, it will be applied after all other discounts have been processed.
Some features, discounts and promotions may no longer be available after conversion.

The e-mail has a conversation letter code that you can use to reference AT&T's Customer Service Agents to in order to better explain what's going on. Some of the older service rate plans may be modified to bring them in line with current plans. If you haven't updated/upgraded your AT&T service in a while, it may be best to check with your AT&T representative for more specifics on how this conversion will effect your service plan.

In talking to AT&T, it appears this is an effort to bring billing networks from the Cingular platform in line with the national AT&T billing standards.