Bharti Airtel is proud to declare that after introducing mChek a mobile-based, security and payment services on Airtel service about one million users have registered for the mChek. The service enables users to pay their bills with ease and convenience of their mobile phone. The mChek further enables users to make payments for insurance premium, eCommerce websites via their mobile phone.
Sanjay Gupta, Chief Marketing Officer, Mobile Services, Airtel says “The mChek on Airtel solution empowers an Airtel mobile user to make transactions with just an SMS, be it Prepaid recharge, Postpaid bill payment, landline bill payment or other merchant transactions like flight ticket booking, movie ticketing, insurance premium payment and toll recharge, etc. We strongly believe that mCommerce will be one of the top 3 services offered over mobile in the future and going forward it has the power to facilitate a paradigm shift in the way consumers do commercial transactions and business.”
Airtel brings to its user facilities like mChekMall, which is a WAP and Java enabled mall that will make movie ticketing, flight ticketing and other innovative services easily accessible on their mobile phone. The mChek service on Airtel application will be pre installed in any mobile phones running on Airtel. Airtel and mChek also showers Holiday season discounts and offers to all customers.
Sanjay Swamy, CEO of mChek comments “Consumer adoption and repeat usage of the service has been extremely encouraging” and he further adds, “With the Reserve Bank of India’s mobile payments guidelines now in place, banks and merchants are fast adopting our open-platform to build a thriving eco-system, and a compelling suite of services for consumers.”
There are even plans to develop the service for bank accounts or credit and debit cards, so that customers can get an easy and secure financial assistance just by pressing the mobile phone key.