Facebook’s Mobile Plan: Carrier Billing, Analytics For Apps Via Bango Deal?

Last week, we highlighted how Facebook is already using mobile devices for commercial services—enabling people to buy Facebook Credits and charge them directly to their mobile bills. Now, it’s increasingly looking like that may just be the beginning: today, UK-based mobile billing and analytics specialist Bango (AIM: BGO) announced that it had signed a deal to provide unspecified services to the social network.

This is a significant deal for Facebook on two separate fronts:

—It ties Facebook up with one of the bigger companies in the area of mobile billing: Bango is the payments provider for RIM’s ...

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