Maxis Communications Ltd. has inked a payments deal with online-payments provider PayPal Inc., the Kuala Lumpur-based telecommunication operator announced last week. The agreement represents the first such deal worldwide between a mobile-network operator and an online payment-service provider, the telco says.
The deal will allow Maxis’ 12 million customers to pay online with a computer or mobile phone using PayPal, which is owned by U.S.-based online auction site eBay Inc. No timeframe was given on the service going live.
“Once operational, our users will have the use of a Maxis-PayPal account,” an official from the operator tells PaymentsSource. “After the sign up, customers will be able to pay at PayPal merchants worldwide” using their mobile phones or at home using a personal computer.
More than 50% of Maxis’ user base are active mobile-data users capable of using the service, according to the telco.
PayPal has more than 8 million merchants and 84 million active accounts, according to the statement. Official at PayPal Singapore, the company’s Asia unit, did not respond to PaymentsSource requests for comment.
