Operators are planning mobile payment companies

Xinhua News (Reporter Gu Xiaoyu) yesterday from the operator to understand, in China Unicom for the construction of mobile payment company recruitment, the Chinese mobile and China Telecom also began preparations for the establishment of mobile payment company.　　The competition of operators in the field of mobile payment is beginning to emerge. Among the three operators, China Unicom's mobile payment company is the clearest, and its open recruitment notices have revealed the company's name, affiliation and other information. And the reporter learned from China Telecom and China Mobile, the two operators of mobile payment companies have been in the middle of the preparations, of which China Telecom has been established for the mobile payment company identified the first candidate, began to enter the recruitment stage; and China Mobile chairman Wang Wang during the two sessions confirmed that　　China Mobile is applying for a third party payment licence and is preparing to cooperate with financial institutions to establish a Third-party payment platform. From this can be seen, in the traditional communications field fight fierce three operators will soon in a new field to start a contest. Some telecom analysts said that, with the development of terminals and networks, the risk of "channel" of telecom operators is increasing, while the development payment business is an important measure for telecom operators to get rid of their marginalization and better conduct their business, but in the short run, Operators to enter the area of payment will not affect the existing market structure too much.