http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2005/08/22/airtime-as-currency/ Russell Buckley and Carlo Longino on mobile technology. Tue, 22 May 2012 09:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2005/08/22/airtime-as-currency/comment-page-1/#comment-378 Neil Hinrichsen Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:36:03 +0000 http://p6.hostingprod.com/@mobhappy.com/blog1/?p=227#comment-378 The mobile operator MTN in South Africa have just launched an ambitious plan together with Standard Bank to give all their several million subscribers a free bank account linked to their phones. The system allows instant transfer of money between phones, purchses, withdrawals/deposits at ATMs, etc. The same system (developed by Fundamo) is already being used by operators in six other countries. MTN intends to roll it out across all their other African networks next year (they are the second largest operator on the continent. See the story at http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0826/p07s01-woaf.html The mobile operator MTN in South Africa have just launched an ambitious plan together with Standard Bank to give all their several million subscribers a free bank account linked to their phones. The system allows instant transfer of money between phones, purchses, withdrawals/deposits at ATMs, etc. The same system (developed by Fundamo) is already being used by operators in six other countries. MTN intends to roll it out across all their other African networks next year (they are the second largest operator on the continent. See the story at http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0826/p07s01-woaf.html

]]> http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2005/08/22/airtime-as-currency/comment-page-1/#comment-377 Neil Hinrichsen Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:29:47 +0000 http://p6.hostingprod.com/@mobhappy.com/blog1/?p=227#comment-377 The mobile operator MTN in South Africa have just launched an ambitious plan together with Standard Bank to give all their several million subscribers a free bank account linked to their phones. The system allows instant transfer of money between phones, purchses, withdrawals/deposits at ATMs, etc. The same system (developed by Fundamo) is already being used by operators in six other countries. MTN intends to roll it out across all their other African networks next year (they are the second largest operator on the continent. See the story at http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0826/p07s01-woaf.html The mobile operator MTN in South Africa have just launched an ambitious plan together with Standard Bank to give all their several million subscribers a free bank account linked to their phones. The system allows instant transfer of money between phones, purchses, withdrawals/deposits at ATMs, etc. The same system (developed by Fundamo) is already being used by operators in six other countries. MTN intends to roll it out across all their other African networks next year (they are the second largest operator on the continent. See the story at http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0826/p07s01-woaf.html

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