Vehicle owners in Tanzania are now set to pay for their car’s road licenses through M-Pesa following a partnership between Vodacom Tanzania and Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) to make use of the service. Speaking while launching the partnership in Dar es Salaam today, Vodacom Tanzania Head of Communication and Marketing, Kelvin Twissa, said that this
Sony Network Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment unveiled a new feature that enables users in the United Kingdom to top up their account wallet to obtain content from PlayStation®Store and across the Sony Entertainment Network using their mobile phone account. Working with mobile payments company, Boku, the process makes it easier for users to obtain
Mobile payments app SnapScan was voted ‘App of the Year’ at the annual MTN Business App of the Year Awards in Melrose Arch, Johannesburg. The 8-month old start-up from Stellenbosch managed to beat 253 other entrants, including apps from FNB, DStv, and Discovery, to take the top prize. In addition to being named app of the year,
The volume of remittances coming into Zimbabwe could easily be trebled if the process of sending money is put on Econet Wireless’ EcoCash platform. After nearly nine months of development, Econet says it is now putting the final touches to a platform that will allow remittances to be made between South Africa and Zimbabwe. Zimbabweans
Kenya Airways, the pride of Africa, and Uganda’s leading Mobile Money service provider, MTN Uganda have partnered to launch a service that allows customers to pay for Kenya Airways tickets using MTN Mobile Money. This additional payment option is part of the airline’s efforts to embrace technology and the convenience and improved customer experiences that
M-PESA, the flagship brand of the leading integrated communications service provider Safaricom Limited, has introduced a new rent collection and payment service dubbed Lipa Kodi na M-PESA. Under the new scheme, customers will pay Kshs.6 for transactions of upto to Kshs. 5,000 while those paying between Kshs.50, 000 and Kshs.70, 000 will be charged a
More than 70% of prepaid electricity users prefer to use their mobile phones to buy electricity tokens than any other outlet, a survey conducted by Kenya Power has revealed. M-Pesa is the most popular facility accounting for 95% of all mobile based prepaid purchases. Kenya Power currently has 340,000 customers on prepaid metering system. The
The Western Union Company, released the latest findings from the Western Union Bill Payments Money Mindset Index. The survey of U.S. consumers reveals mobile device ownership and usage are changing consumers’ bill payment behaviors, even as people continue to use different payment channels like in-person or mail to meet their budget and lifestyle needs. For example,
SecureBuy has announced a critical upgrade to their complete end to end eCommerce and Mobile payment fraud solution that allows merchants to process orders from blacklists with all reward and no risk. Blacklisting is a very common practice in eCommerce where a merchant compiles a list of untrusted customers by name, zip code, IP address,
The State Law Office of Kenya has entered into a partnership with Safaricom to automate some of its services. The KSh 14 million contract will see Safriacom providing it’s M-Pesa platform for the payment of services such as registration of companies, societies, or weddings. The announcement was made at an event held at the SLO
