Vodafone launches new, responsive ‘M-Pesa App’ to enable convenient payment of bills & recharging on the move



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Vodafone India, one of India’s leading telecommunications service providers, has launched an all new, responsive ‘M-Pesa App’, which enables consumers to pay their bills and recharge their mobile from anywhere, anytime. The ‘new M-Pesa App’ welcomes all Vodafone users intuitively and prompts existing users to Login and new users to register for M-Pesa. Users can load their M-Pesa wallet through Net Banking/Debit Card absolutely free on the App.

 

With the ‘M-Pesa App’, consumers can very conveniently recharge their mobile & DTH, pay their Post-paid, Electricity, Gas and Landline bills from their mobile with a click of few buttons. To start using M-Pesa, simply download the ‘M-Pesa App’ available across all major platforms  viz. Android, iPhone, BB and Windows and register on mobile.

 

To provide additional benefit to its new users, Vodafone also announced a 5% cashback offer on the payments made using the App (upto a maximum of Rs 50 per month).

 

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Suresh Sethi, Business Head -M-Pesa, Vodafone India said, “Vodafone has always been at the forefront in launching innovative products and services relevant to the needs of our customers. Our newly launched ‘M-Pesa App’ is highly safe and secure and has been designed to empower and provide the ease and convenience to all our customers to transfer money instantly, pay utility bills, recharge phones, etc. through their mobile handset.”

 

Vodafone India provides customers with a new currency in the form of M-Pesa, the world renowned mobile wallet and money transfer service. Vodafone M-Pesa is an innovative, safe and secure mobile wallet that enables complete suite of services like money transfer, bill payments, and recharge on the move from the mobile. It caters to all segments of the society, from the unbanked to the under banked and to the net-savvy and evolved customers. Today, with a pan-India distribution of over 90,000 agents and more than 3 million customers, Vodafone M-Pesa is the largest banking correspondent in the country and is playing a vital role in enabling financial inclusion and m-commerce.

 

 

About Vodafone India

Vodafone India is a fully owned subsidiary of Vodafone PLC, which is one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies. Making its entry into India in 2007, Vodafone today has built an ever growing, robust business in highly price sensitive and competitive market. Serving over 180 million customers, Vodafone provides innovative, customer friendly and differentiated products and services through a wide scale distribution and exclusive retail footprint – backed up with a modern, technologically advanced network for both voice and data.

Vodafone Business Services, the enterprise arm of Vodafone, provides total telecommunications solutions across both mobility and wireline platforms and enables Global Enterprises, National Corporates, SME’s and Government segments to communicate, collaborate and connect.

Vodafone India provides customers with a new currency in the form of M-Pesa, the world renowned mobile wallet and money transfer service. Vodafone M-Pesa is an innovative, safe and secure mobile wallet that enables complete suite of services like money transfer, bill payments, and recharge on the move from the mobile. It caters to all segments of the society, from the unbanked to the under banked and to the net-savvy and evolved customers. Today, with a pan-India distribution of over 90,000 agents and more than 3 million customers, Vodafone M-Pesa is the largest banking correspondent in the country and is playing a vital role in enabling financial inclusion and m-commerce.

With the advantage of its global expertise and knowledge of local markets, Vodafone India is well poised to significantly expand the Government’s capacity to deliver benefits and outcomes for citizens, governments and businesses. It endeavours to be a steadfast partner in the Government’s efforts towards Digital India

A value based organization; Vodafone is committed to achieving the highest standards of Health, Safety and Well-being for its employees and business partners. Sustainability is an integral part of the company’s mission and strategy and ‘Vodafone Cares’ is the platform to showcase initiatives under the pillars of education, environment and empowerment. The Vodafone Foundation, in turn, is committed to leveraging India’s pressing challenges using mobile technology, thus playing an important role in India’s digitization programme. Its activities focus on the 4M’s for empowering individuals – mHealth, mEducation, mAgriculture and mWomen.

About Vodafone Plc.

Vodafone is one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies and provides a range of services including voice, messaging, data and fixed communications. Vodafone has mobile operations in 26 countries, partners with mobile networks in 55 more, and fixed broadband operations in 17 markets. As of 31st December, 2014, Vodafone has 444 million mobile customers and 11.8 million fixed broadband customers.

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