Agile team with C+W on payment system

Dublin-based payments provider, Agile has teamed with Cable & Wireless Guernsey to launch the world's first prepaid mobile data application payment service - C&W Mpay.

The payment service enables mobile phone customers to purchase a "credit voucher" from participating retailers, which is stored in a virtual wallet accessible through the user's mobile phone.

Customers are provided with instant access to a range of data services such as advanced gaming, news and weather alerts, entertainment news and MMS.

A complex reporting system provides up to the minute performance information on the status of transaction activity across account holders, voucher merchants, multiple time periods and value levels.

James McEwan, Mobile IS Manager for Cable and Wireless Guernsey stated: "Through our investigations of the platforms being operated in the Far East, we were introduced to Agile. They took our original requirements and developed them to deliver a scalable and flexible platform that will act as a foundation for our future mobile payment services."

According to Enda Kyne, CEO of Agile : "Although mobile payment platforms are already established in Asia, across Europe and the Middle East, we are seeing a ground swell of consumer demand for wireless data services from mobile phone operators".