Oberthur Technologies Helps Zain Break New Ground in the Field of Mobile Commerce
world’s second largest supplier of smart card solutions, successfully
completed the deployment of its M-Commerce security solution for Zain’s 15
sub Saharan African operations. Zain’s Mobile Commerce solution, Zap, is a
state-of-the-art SIM security application and security gateway which enables
Zain customers to use their mobile phone to securely pay bills and to pay for
goods and services.
The service currently allows Zain customers in
through their mobile phones to receive and send money to friends and family
as well as to receive money from any bank account around the world and send
money to other bank accounts. They can also top up their own, or someone
else’s, airtime account and manage their bank accounts. Over 100 million
people in
rolled out soon in all Zain’s operation across the
has a potential customer base of 600 million people, many of whom have never
had access to formal financial services.
“For any market in the world, the combination of services we are
providing through Zap mobile commerce would be exciting,” declared Dr Saad Al
Barrak CEO of Zain, “but when set in an African context, the implications are
especially profound given the critical economic needs of many Africans living
the countries in which Zain operates. In this sense, what we deliver
contributes to more than just a healthy bottom line; it genuinely helps
improve lives.”
“We selected Oberthur Technologies as our security solutions partner
because of the company’s’ proven leadership in the field of mobile smart card
and security solutions, their global support for our offer, and the desire of
the team to take the initial first steps to innovate technologically advanced
and customized solutions to meet Zain’s ground-breaking service offering,”
stated
Oberthur Technologies commented, “This partnership has enabled the two
innovative leaders, Oberthur and Zain, to raise the bar for future m-commerce
solutions. Our successful partnership goes back many years and continues to
grow from strength to strength.”
About Zain
Zain is a leading telecommunications operator across the
customers as at
largest mobile operator in the world with a commercial presence in 24
countries.
Zain operates in the following countries:
the Republic of the
Palestine (currently known as Paltel Group),
‘mtc-touch’ on behalf of the government. In
Telecom through a joint venture.
Zain offers innovative services in its markets such as ‘One Network’, the
world’s first borderless mobile telecommunications network enabling customers
when abroad to receive calls and sms without charge and to make voice and
data calls at local rates throughout 20 countries in
East
or from more than 1,000,000 outlets within Zain’s One Network footprint.
The Zain brand is wholly owned by Mobile Telecommunications Company KSC,
which is listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange (Stock ticker: ZAIN). Zain is
listed in the Financial Times’ Global 500 Index which ranks the world’s
largest companies based on market capitalization (
http://www.ft.com/reports/ft5002008). Zain aims to become one of the top ten
mobile operators in the world by end of the year 2011. For more, please visit
http://www.zain.com or email info@zain.com
About Oberthur Technologies
With sales of
leader in the field of secure technologies. Innovation and high quality
services ensure Oberthur Technologies’ strong positioning in its main target
markets:
- Card Systems: The world's second largest provider of security
and identification based on smart card technology and associated
services for mobile, payment, transport, digital TV and convergence
markets.
- Identity: Leading international supplier for the manufacture and
personalization of secure identity documents such as passport, identity
card, driving license or health care card - traditional and electronic
- and associated services for both governmental and corporate markets.
- Security printing: World's third largest private security printer
specialized in high security for the production of banknotes, checks
and other fiduciary documents in more than fifty countries.
- Cash protection: World leader in the emerging market of
intelligent systems to secure cash-in-transit and ATM.
Close to its customers, Oberthur Technologies benefits from an industrial
and commercial presence across all five continents.
Oberthur Technologies S.A. is a limited liability company (societe
anonyme) registered in
92 532 Levallois Perret,
registration number is 340 709 534 R.C.S.
Website: http://www.oberthur.com
SOURCE Oberthur Technologies