Around 3 months ago; I’ve heard that Indonesia Central Bank (BI) had (finally) released a mobile payment regulation so mobile carriers can enable their customers to use their mobile phone as another official payment tools for any transaction (not just mobile contents).
Telkomsel is the first certified operator that has this service (launch around a month ago); but actually few years ago XL already tried to implemented it by a product called mWallet. Unfortunately, there they cant continue the product since there was no regulation about mobile payment.
How it works? Will it deduct my main balance or add my phone billing? NO with this mobile paymet product people will need to do a top-up for tCash account in appointed merchants then your phone become a ‘prepaid’/debit card –boring_stuff_end_here, click above image for more details :)–
It’s official that all mobile superiorities as a 7th mass media completely can also be enjoyed in Indonesia. Imagine; group of teenagers receive a promotion message about their favorite band concert in Jakarta. One of them have tCash. They can directly buy a concert ticket without need to run to the ATM and find a ticket box. –what a perfect world–
I believe there will be lot of ideas running around Octokers head…… :)
I’ve registered my number…. will share the experience later…..
meanwhile; please put up some relevant idea how we can maximize this…… will this new technology has a chance to grow in our market? what will be the best product to start?
.juicer