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Airtel reaches 1 million mCheck m-payments users

Friday 16 January 2009 15:36 CET | News

Indian mobile operator has registered 1 million users for the mCheck mobile payment service since the latter was launched in June 2008.

With mCheck, mobile subscribers can make SMS-payments to top-up their account, to pay postpaid bills, landline bill or other transactions like flight ticket booking, movie ticketing, insurance premium payment and toll recharge.

Airtel also introduces a new range of features and offers for users of mCheck on Airtel. New capabilities introduced for all mCheck users on Airtel include mCheckMall, SIM cards preloaded with mobile payments capability and holiday season offers and discounts to customers from Airtel, mCheck and other retailers. mCheckMall is a mobile shop on WAP and Java environments, offering flight tickets, movie tickets and other services. Airtel and mCheck announced that more banks would be introduced onto the platform allowing for many more customers to start using the services by linking their bank accounts or credit/debit cards to their mobile phone number.

 


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