Airtel, Bank of Ceylon and BOC Paymate launch MCommerce solution in Sri Lanka

Available now to all the Airtel subscribers in Sri Lanka, the new services enables users to make instant payments of phone and utility bills, account balance inquiries, mini statements, fund transfers and also, instant post paid account bill payment and prepaid recharge connections, using their BOC account.

Amali Nanayakkara, CEO Bharti Airtel Lanka stated, "The Airtel mCommerce solution offers all Bank of Ceylon customers the opportunity and convenience of transacting need based services over SMS. Through this co-created initiative to enrich customers of Bank of Ceylon and Airtel we are happy to engineer yet another avenue of service delight while facilitating a paradigm shift in the way customers conduct economic transactions."

Airtel and Bank of Ceylon customers can now enjoy instant postpaid account bill payment and prepaid recharge connections over SMS with this new MCommerce platform. The users now have the option to make utility bill payments for water, electricity and telephone along with account balance inquiries, mini statements and fund transfers through SMS.

The Airtel subscribers can also avail Airtel recharge facilities along with postpaid bill-payment services over SMS. The platform will be available to the existing Bank of Ceylon customers on the Airtel network as well.

It's basically an SMS-based service which works on any make or model of handset. The good part is that you don't need to have GPRS/EDGE connectivity or enjoy this service. Furthermore, there's no requirement for any application download to avail this MCom platform.