Dear reader,
This week
TransferTo™ is in Las Vegas for the
International CTIA
Wireless 2010 Conference. We would be pleased to meet you
there. We're taking this opportunity to announce two large
deployments in North America:
•
KDDI America is the first US MVNO to launch International
Airtime Exchange.
•
hyperWALLET teaming up with TransferTo™ to
offer International Airtime Recharge.
We're looking forward to expanding our partnerships in the
Americas and beyond.
Kind regards, Eric Barbier CEO
KDDI
America is the first US MVNO to launch International Airtime
Exchange
New York and
Singapore, March 23rd, 2010 - KDDI
America, who provides a leading prepaid
mobile service for migrants, has
successfully launched in partnership with
TransferTo™ a cross-border top-up service.
Migrant workers, travelers and
foreigners who are using KDDI America
prepaid mobile phone in the USA may now
recharge the prepaid mobile phone of their
relatives back home. To perform an
international top-up, the sender simply
needs to select by SMS the amount
denomination and indicate a destination
number. Transaction is processed in
real-time through TransferTo™ secure
platform; both sender and receiver are
immediately notified by SMS.
“With
the international top-up service, KDDI
America is now proposing an ideal solution
to complement its expatriate subscribers’
regular money remittances, by enabling easy,
real time and secure sending of small-value
amounts to friends and family members back
home” says Toshiro Akiyama of KDDI America.
About KDDI America
KDDI America is the U.S. division of KDDI
Corporation, a Fortune Global 500 company,
which is famous for its Japan’s
second-largest mobile operation with more
than 30 million subscribers and leading
Global ICT services. KDDI America provides
high-quality network and system integration
solutions and is also known as a leading
prepaid mobile service provider for
migrants, with more than 300 thousands
subscribers. For more information, please
visit the following website:
http://www.kddia.com/eng/index.html
hyperWALLET teaming up with
TransferTo™ to offer International Airtime
Recharge

TransferTo™,
the global airtime transfer company,
announced its partnership with hyperWALLET
Systems Inc., a leading provider of
worldwide payment solutions, to offer
cross-border airtime transfer for Canada.
The service is mainly offered to foreign
communities, international workers, and
visitors who maintain strong ties with their
families and relatives abroad.
Although they remit part of their earnings
every month directly to the household head,
they lack an appropriate service for sending
smaller amounts to their family and friends.
This new service addressing the Canadian
market complements cross-border money
remittances with the repeated sending of
small value airtime recharges. TransferTo
comes as the perfect solution for giving out
airtime recharges as a gift on special
occasions such as birthdays, religious
events, festivals or celebrations. With
mobile phones becoming tools of economic
empowerment in developing countries, airtime
recharge transfer is increasingly regarded
as a key mobile feature by migrants and
their family back home.
“We are
excited to partner with TransferTo in this
initiative, as we believe the untapped
Canadian market will benefit from
TransferTo’s extensive expertise and service
coverage”, states Lisa Shields, CEO of
hyperWALLET Systems Inc. “hyperWALLET's
position as a global payments provider is a
great complement for the TransferTo™ airtime
platform, and their airtime top-up service
provides Canadian consumers and expatriate
communities with a valuable and innovative
way to send airtime credits worldwide.”
About hyperWALLET
hyperWALLET delivers secure payment
services to organizations who require a
simplified way to access or leverage the
global financial network. Since 2000, we
have become a leading provider of online and
mobile payments, international payments,
card products and financial technology
solutions to world-class customers in
Canada, the U.S. and internationally. With
hundreds of customers (including more than
200 credit unions) that touch millions of
users, our clients span numerous sectors.
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