News

Ooredoo teams up with Fortumo to launch direct carrier billing in Indonesia

Thursday 4 August 2016 09:57 CET | News

Indosat Ooredoo, a digital telco from Indonesia, has partnered Fortumo, a mobile payments company to launch of direct carrier billing.  

The partnership will enable 69.8 million Indosat Ooredoo subscribers’ to make online payments by charging purchases to their mobile account, without the need to use a credit card.

Fortumo’s direct carrier billing platform is used by app stores (Google Play, Windows Phone Store), digital media companies (Sony, HOOQ, Gaana) and gaming companies (EA Mobile, Gameloft, Kinguin, Rovio). To enable global carrier billing for these merchants, Fortumo has partnered with more than 350 mobile operators across the world.

While there are over 65 million smartphone owners in Indonesia, less than 5 million people have access to credit cards. This means a majority of the digital population cannot make online payments. As a consequence, digital merchants lose out on revenue from a majority of the population. Carrier billing resolves this problem by allowing any mobile phone owner (both prepaid and postpaid) to make payments through Fortumo. 


Free Headlines in your E-mail

Every day we send out a free e-mail with the most important headlines of the last 24 hours.

Subscribe now

Keywords: Ooredoo, Fortumo, direct carrier billing, Indonesia, mobile payments
Categories: Payments & Commerce
Companies:
Countries: World
This article is part of category

Payments & Commerce






Industry Events