Trio launches new pre-paid mobile phone service
Trio launches new pre-paid mobile phone service
CommSecure are teaming up with TeleTech and InterAcct to kick start this new initiative which will provide instantaneous pre-paid top-up services for mobile phone users.
CommSecure are teaming up with TeleTech and InterAcct to kick start this new initiative which will provide instantaneous pre-paid top-up services for mobile phone users.
Consumers will have an easier way to pay for credit by early next year when this consortium of technology companies launches a new m-commerce project.
The three companies will use a GSM network channel to allow mobile phone owners to use their own handset to buy more airtime.
At the moment, consumers have to go to retail outlets and buy either a pre-paid card or voucher that gives them a long number which they have to enter into their phone. They also have access to extra calls through the use of a debit or credit card.
The new proposed system will allow mobile phone users to access a menu of special services on their phone, which includes the new top-up of pre-paid accounts.
Ray Loyzaga, Managing Director of CommSecure said that this new service will save money, be more convenient and more secure too:
"It will offer an additional service to phone users who won't have to worry about access to a retail outlet to buy pre-paid calls since they'll be able to top up their account anytime and anywhere.
"They will only have to press four keys to make it all happen, rather than use an unwieldy credit card number. And since no credit card details or bank account details will move across the network it will help prevent fraud and reduce invalid use of credit cards to pay for calls."
CommSecure, TeleTech and InterAcct hope to roll out the new service within the first quarter of 2004. The pre-paid mobile phone market is currently worth about $200 million dollars.
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