Mobile users in India now have the ability to purchase tickets to the cricket Indian Premier League and movie theaters using Suvidha Starnet Pvt Ltd’s mobile-payment service.
The company is partnering with ticket agency Bookmyshow to offer the service, a Suvidha spokesperson tells PaymentsSource.
“Customers will be able to use our Beam money service to make these transactions,” the spokesperson says. “Each user will be able to book tickets to all movie tickets being sold on the site, as well the tickets for four matches of four league teams.”
Beam is a prepaid mobile wallet service that enables consumers to pay bills, send gift payments and buy airline tickets using text messages, voice calls or the Internet. The service currently has 350,000 subscribers and works across different handsets and carriers.
To buy tickets, users can send a text messages to a designated number, use Beam’s mobile application or call a customer service center, the spokesperson adds.
Bean users purchase vouchers to load value into the prepaid account. Vouchers range in denominations of 100 rupees (US$2.2 or 1.5 euros) to 1,000 rupees.
“Alternately, users can also link their credit cards to reload their Beam accounts,” the spokesperson says.
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