Bharti Airtel, India’s leading integrated telecom services provider, today announced that more than One Million users have registered for the mChek on Airtel service, since its commercial launch in June 2008.
Sanjay Gupta, Chief Marketing Officer, Mobile Services, Airtel said,
The mChek on Airtel solution empowers an Airtel mobile user to make transactions with just an SMS be it Prepaid recharge, Postpaid bill payment, landlines bill payment or other merchant transactions like flight ticket booking, movie ticketing, insurance premium payment and toll recharge, etc
Sanjay Swamy, CEO of mChek said,
Consumer adoption and repeat usage of the service has been extremely encouraging.
The new capabilities introduced for all mChek users on Airtel are:
mChekMall – a mobile mall on WAP and Java environments, bringing a range of flight ticketing, movie ticketing and other innovative services to the mobile phone.
Nationwide availability of the mChek on Airtel application pre-installed on all new Airtel SIM cards, allowing users with all handsets including entry-level handsets to be able to benefit from the convenience of these services in a secure manner.
mChek on Airtel was introduced in June 2008 to facilitate Mobile Bill Payment and Prepaid Recharge. Keeping with increasing demand from customers the mobile payment services through mChek have now been expanded to include insurance premium payments for ICICI Prudential, payments for the Delhi-Gurgaon toll plaza, payments at eCommerce websites such as Indiatimes shopping, Yatra.com, Futurebazar.com, SIFYMaII.com and HomeShop movie ticketing sites like BookMyShow.com, MakeMyTrip.com & Yatra.com for flight and travel ticketing and redBus.in for bus ticket booking.