Airtel Launches mCheck M-Commerce Service on VOICE number 543219

Airtel is the most favorite and reliable GSM mobile service in INDIA. And now there is one more reason to make it more favorite. Everyone knows about the Airtel`s E-commerce initiative mCheck. Initially Airtel was offering this service by SMS , USSD , J2ME Application , SIM Application and WAP. But now there is good news that now this service will be available to any Airtel user with any type of mobile handset (From Nokia 1100 to Apple iPhone 3G) totally free of cost.

All Airtel mobile customers can make use of mCheck service for Airtel bill payments, recharge using credit cards by simply calling 543219 Toll Free.

Before this initiative almost all M-commerce applications are based on JAVA with GPRS or SMS based phones. Providing M-Commerce facility on Toll Free voice based platform will give M-commerce services a huge boost in INDIA.

“There is tremendous potential for voice enabled m-Commerce services in India and we are giving a huge thrust in this area,” said, Atul Bindal, President, Mobile Services, Bharti Airtel. Further added, “We believe that m-Commerce has the power to facilitate a paradigm shift in the way mobile users do commercial transactions and business in future.”

Let`s see what are the facilities provided on mCheck for both Prepaid and Postpaid Customers

For Post-paid customers:

** Pay their own postpaid bill
** Pay for others postpaid bill
** Make full or partial bill payment (customer driven)
** Recharge for other prepaid customers
** Pay any Airtel landline Bill
** Recharge his Digital TV account
** Recharge Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway toll tag ( for Delhi/NCR users )
** All other merchant payments like Pay insurance premiums, Buy gifts, Bus tickets ,Train tickets, Flight Tickets and shopping with Indiatimes, Homeshop18 and Futurebazaar.com

For Pre-paid customers:

** Recharge for self
** Pay Landline Bill
** Recharge Digital TV account
** Recharge Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway toll tag ( for Delhi/NCR users)
** All other merchant payments like Pay insurance premiums, Buy gifts, Bus tickets ,Train tickets, Flight Tickets and shopping with Indiatimes, Homeshop18 and Futurebazaar.com

To avail this service, Airtel customers have to call 543219, create their own 6 digit mChekPIN and link their VISA / Mastercard credit card. The one-time registration links the user’s credit card automatically to the mChek on Airtel service. For all future transactions the user is required to only enter a six-digit mChekPIN on their registered mobile number to authorize the transaction.

mChek on Airtel provides an on-demand solution for mobile payments with a unique two-step authentication process, the mChekPIN and the Mobile Number.

Check Details about mCheck here