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Mobile payment: with chip or by sms

Earlier this month, European mobile operators (represented by the GSM Association) and European banks (represented by the European Payments Council) have reached an agreement to collaborate on mobile payments.  Together they want to look for an easy way to link a mobile phone to a bank account.  Mobile payments would be made possible with Near [ READ MORE ]

High cost slows down SMS payment

Belgian consumers are still sceptic about mobile payment.  According to Atos Worldline this is because merchants are not promoting the technology enough.  More merchants should accept this payment method and should announce this to their customers.  But for this, the cost for the merchants should be lowered. A SMS payment can cost up to 60 [ READ MORE ]

Mobile payment picks up slowly

In May of this year we reported about several new Mobile Payment technologies that are coming up. New providers such as Tunz.com and Atos Worldline offered services to use your mobile to pay small bills. Though promising, we see that after half a year people aren’t yet warming up to these kind of services. Atos [ READ MORE ]

SMS parking is huge success in Antwerp

A few months ago we reported about the new project in some Belgian cities to pay your parking space by SMS. In Antwerp this system turns out to be a huge success. According to De Standaard, about 20% of outdoor parking spaces in Antwerp is paid by SMS. The parking company GAPA is now negociating [ READ MORE ]

Mobile bus tickets in Antwerp and Ghent

Today, a test project with mobile bus ticketing starts in the cities of Antwerp and Ghent. The project, a collaboration between mobile operator Proximus and De Lijn, is the first of its kind in Europe. The concept is kept simple: you send a SMS message to a shortcode and you receive another message back, which [ READ MORE ]

Google patents SMS payment service

In May, we discussed several mobile payment services. Google is jumping the band wagon, this week patenting their new Gpay service. Google has yet to communicate on Gpay, but the sms payment service should become available on every mobile phone, smartphone and PDA. It will allow to pay small amounts with a simple SMS message [ READ MORE ]

Will we soon pay everything with our mobile phone?

The past few months it has been raining press announcements regarding the launch of new payment services via the mobile phone. Tunz.com, Banxafe, MPAY, … they are just a few of the new possibilities that are offered in Belgium. Is the consumer still following with all these technological attacks? A lot of renewal regarding mobile [ READ MORE ]

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