Vodafone promotes mobile wallet M-Pesa through full talktime

Vodafone M-PesaVodafone India said its 18 million pre-paid customers in Maharashtra and Goa circles will get full talktime on recharges of Rs 30, 40, 50, 70, 90 and 100, exclusively on Vodafone’s mobile wallet service, M-Pesa.

Internet search engine Google today announced Tez, a mobile app — built on the Indian government-supported Unified Payments Interface (UPI) — for digital payments and commerce in India.

Users can download the mobile app on Google Play (Android) and the App Store (iOS).

Google said PVR Cinemas, redBus, DishTV, Jet Airways and Domino’s are some of the initial customers of Tez mobile app.

Vodafone said individuals can download the M-Pesa App for free and recharge anytime through the app to avail this offer. The offer is available on recharge through USSD by dialing *400# or through the M-Pesa app and website.

With additional talktime benefits ranging from 18-25 percent of the recharge amount, customers can have huge savings on their mobile recharges with this exclusive offer, only through M-Pesa.

“With this offer, we are rewarding every mobile recharge above Rs 30, made through the M-Pesa App with Full Talktime benefit so that our customers can make more calls for the same amount,” said Ashish Chandra, business head, Vodafone Maharashtra & Goa.

M-Pesa has a distribution network of close to 140,000 agents and more than 16.4 million customers for M-Pesa.

Vodafone M-Pesa has a network of 9,000 agents in Maharashtra and Goa.