China Mobile will cooperate with Shanghai Bank to promote handset payment business

Bit net (chinabyte) June 7 News, it is reported that China Mobile will reach a cooperation agreement with Shanghai Bank, when the mobile phone users in Shanghai to pay the balance of the account is not enough money, the bank will automatically recharge the account.　　The partnership will start this month, but details of the partnership are not yet officially announced. As one of China Mobile's key business this year, the mobile payment business is being popularized in many pilot provinces such as Shanghai and Beijing. It is reported that China Mobile from September 2009 started in Shanghai pilot mobile phone payment business, and from January 25, 2010 in Shanghai officially opened the "Expo Tong" mobile wallet business.　　Up to now, the Shanghai World Expo Park has more than 100 merchants to achieve brush mobile phone consumption. Mao Weiliang, deputy general manager of China Mobile Shanghai Company, Mao Weiliang said that during the expo, Shanghai mobile mainly through three channels to expand mobile payment business: First, business cooperation, there are more than 1400 stores can accept mobile phone payment, including food and beverage stores and supermarket chains The second is the first to open the mobile phone wallet business, the current Shanghai 11 subway lines can be brush mobile phone by subway; Third, with the bus card cooperation, can brush mobile phone to ride the Expo bus line.　　It is reported that the Shanghai mobile phone payment users have reached 130,000, is expected to break through 200,000 at the end of this year. For the mobile payment business and recharge issues, Mao Weiliang said, at present, the user's communications account and mobile payment account is separate, users can open mobile phone payment business and recharge, can also be through the net silver or bank card directly to the mobile wallet recharge.　　It is reported that from this June onwards, Shanghai mobile phone payment users will be able to achieve the bank card to the mobile wallet real-time recharge. According to Chinese mobile related sources, mobile payment business is a new business promoted by China Mobile and one of the key businesses during the expo.　　China Mobile will use the Shanghai World Expo to increase mobile payment business promotion, so that mobile payment business into a large-scale pilot stage. At present, China Mobile has been in the mobile phone payment pilot provinces and cities to promote the "on-site payment" function, the plan to make mobile phone payments from "remote payment" to "on-site payment" direction. In addition, China Mobile has planned to "seamlessly integrate" with UnionPay, but the various models currently under discussion have not yet been finalized.