Mobile operators Telia, Tele2, Telenor and 3
have become the latest carriers to collaborate to provide a mobile
payments service.
The service will be available in Sweden.
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The venture, which will be available next
year, aims to expand the range of transactions consumers carry out
via mobile.
The partners are planning to develop and
market one service offered to both contract and prepaid
consumers.
The operators indicated that a joint company
for all types of mobile payments would make payments easier and
safer for consumers, while enabling users to change operator at
greater ease.
Merchants and partners, through a single
cross-operator party, will be granted greater security and less
administrative cost, they said.
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By GlobalDataIt remains to bee seen how 3’s Swedish
strategy sits with the rest of the group as they have recently
protested against a similar m-commerce joint venture in the UK
involving Vodafone, O2 and Everything Everywhere as 3 UK was
not involved in the venture.
