Evina and Telecoming Unveil 2023 DCB Index, Evaluating Middle East and Africa’s Carrier Billing Landscape

Evina, a cybersecurity for Carrier Billing company and Telecoming, a tech firm developing DCB experiences, released the 2023 edition of the DCB Index. The DCB Index 2023 offers a detailed analysis of the Direct Carrier Billing (DCB) market’s progression and potential in the Middle East and Africa. This year’s edition continues to rank countries on a 5-point scale, incorporating new insights into fraud prevention, innovation, local market penetration, and DCB’s growth potential. The DCB Index provides insights into the Direct Carrier Billing market of countries in the Middle East and Africa region (MEA), ranking them according to their current DCB status and potential to develop this growth-boosting mobile payment method further.

For the first time, the 2023 edition of the DCB Index includes three new countries with positive ratings: Algeria at 2.9, Botswana at 2.3, and Saudi Arabia leading with a score of 3.4.

Direct Carrier Billing is a payment technology that allows mobile users to pay for any service by charging the purchase to their carrier bill.