Airtel customers can pay bills through SMS using 'mChek'

By Staff
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Bangalore, Sep 6 (UNI) Country's leading GSM mobile operator Airtel today announced the national rollout of its latest value added service of enabling post paid customers pay their bills through SMS under a new facility called the 'mChek'.

Airtel Karnataka Circle CEO V Venkatesh told newspersons here that the Mobile operator also announced another new service one2one under which a customer could get information on billing, payments, billing plans, new services and complaint management.

Having a share of 31.58 per cent of the GSM subscribers with the physical numbers crossing 44 million, Airtel's mChek service was claimed to be the first of its kind in the world.

Both the services would be available free of cost. Under mChek a post paid subscriber could pay his mobile phone bill using his visa credit card by sending a simple sms and get an acknowledgment for the payment. mCheck would come with in-built checks and validations to ensure completely secure and risk free transaction, he added.

Subscribers could sign up for mChek payment mode either through mobile phone or through internet.

Mr Venkatesh claimed that Karnataka with a subscriber base of 5.1 million, was the highest for any operator in any state. Airtel had a 40 per cent share of the circle's total GSM subscriber base and had set up a record 4,000 base station towers across the state. It was the first circle operator across any telecom service provider in India to set up such a vast number of network sites.

UNI

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