COSMOTE customers can pay their bills through the mobilPay MasterCard Mobile application

Time is precious for all of us, with so many things to do each day. Technology is continuously evolving and COSMOTE Romania is keeping up to its pace in order to provide its customers with the most time effective tools for their daily activities.
 
Starting today, the operator is granting to all its customers the access to the mobilPay MasterCard Mobile application, a payment method using directly the mobile phone and a mobile broadband data service, without any other devices needed. The mobile app is available for both postpaid and prepaid COSMOTE customers, which are also MasterCard users. The application was developed in partnership with Netopia and MasterCard and the largest quota from the transactions made through this application comes from the telecom industry.
 
“In a fast moving era, we continue to develop and bring our customers the easiest and most convenient methods that will bring more efficiency into their lives. The new mobile app offers a fast and secured, worldwide renowned solution, for mobile phone bills payment, as well as for recharging the COSMOTE prepaid accounts. We trust this new enhancement in our services’ portfolio will reinforce and continue to build on our smartphone centric operator strategy”, stated Gabriel Ionita, Products & Services Development Senior Manager.
 
 “Romanians are assimilating fast everything that is cutting edge technology and mobile payment will not be an exception. I believe that their adoption will overpass in a few years the one of online card payment. We relied on creating new payments method for users, which further became standards in the industry, as well as SMS payments and, now, payments from mobile phones. Our efforts to develop this new market and to be again pioneers in the mobile payments are supported by top companies, which decided to join us, as partners”, stated Antonio Eram, CEO and founder of NETOPIA mobilPay.
 
“The mobilPay MasterCard Mobile application is a very simple and fast method, by which users can make payments by mobile phone, in safe conditions, as it is the first mobile payment application from Romania which complies to the MasterCard Mobile Remote Payments standards”, stated Gabriel Ghita, Business Development Manager CEE, MasterCard Europe. “We are happy with the COSMOTE decision to allow also the services payments through this application, along the prepaid cards recharge. The international experience of MasterCard proves that the mobile phone is becoming a favourite electronic payment tool, and a partner such as COSMOTE confirms this fact”.
 
mobilPay MasterCard Mobile app is a web based application and offers customers the possibility to pay their own invoices/recharge their prepaid card or other friend’s and family’s invoices/prepaid cards.
 
Moreover, from the MasterCard account, the COSMOTE customer will be able to pay: invoices for other mobile/fixed operators available in mobilPay MasterCard Mobile app, utilities invoices available in mobilPay MasterCard Mobile app and different services/deals available in mobilPay MasterCard Mobile app.
 
The payments can be made 24 hours/day, without needing cash, without any other time and place restrictions and the users will also receive notifications regarding the invoicing within the application.

 
In order to access mobilPay MasterCard Mobile app, COSMOTE customers can download and install it for free from Play Store or App Store. The mobilPay MasterCard Mobile app is developed for iOS and Android mobile operating systems and is compatible with all smartphones and tablets running Android 2.3 or higher or iOS 4.0 or higher and iPad.
 
More details are available here.
 
Background information:
 
Since the launch, mobilPay MasterCard Mobile application got a significant number of users, in a balanced way on Android (46%) and on iOS (54%). The application proved its utility, especially in the case of recurring payments – 50% of payments are recharges for prepaid SIM cards, while 40% were bill payments. The difference is represented by payments made in the Shop section, where are present offers from the partner dealers. The payments made through the application start from a few lei, some of them reaching to exceed 1,600 lei, while the average value of a transaction is almost 70 lei.
 

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COSMOTE Romania had 6 million customers at June 30^th, 2013. Launched in 2005, COSMOTE Romania achieved the fastest network development in Europe, according to the Citigroup report in June 2007. In less than 5 years, COSMOTE Romania surpassed its competitors in terms of national network coverage. Today, COSMOTE Romania offers seamless communication to more than 99% of the population and 90% of the territory. COSMOTE Romania is a subsidiary of COSMOTE Group, the operator with the strongest presence in SE Europe with approximately 20.4 million customers in Greece, Albania, Bulgaria and Romania. For more information, visit www.cosmote.ro.