Airtel introduces mobile payment facilities for bank credit card holders
05 Mar 2008
New Delhi: Telecom giant Bharti Airtel has launched a host of mobile payment optons such as mobile money transfer (MMT), postpaid bill payment and prepaid recharge for mobile phones.
The mobile money transfer facility, introduced for the first time in India, will directly benefit Airtel customers who own VISA credit / debit cards from ICICI bank, HDFC bank, SBI, Corporation Bank can now transfer money, pay bills, recharge their phones, buy movie tickets and book air and rail tickets using their mobile phones.
Airtel customers with GPRS-enabled handsets can avail these facilities by sending a text message "Airtel" to 543219 and then download an application on their handsets.
The mobile payment solution has been developed by mobile security and payment solutions provider mChek. Airtel says the solution is completely secured and has been certified by the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCIDSS), a stringent globally accepted security
Airtel has 67,000 registered customers for postpaid bill payments with over a hundred thousand transactions running into several crore, the telecom firm says and adds that so far users have booked over 17000 movie tickets using this service.