Comments on: Zoompass Takes Mobile Payments to the (Canadian) Masses http://gigaom.com/2009/06/15/zoompass-takes-mobile-payments-to-the-canadian-masses/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:40:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Melanie http://gigaom.com/2009/06/15/zoompass-takes-mobile-payments-to-the-canadian-masses/#comment-214096 Sat, 29 May 2010 22:36:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=54220#comment-214096 A year after this article was published. I wonder what you think now. I have Zoompass and I like it. I heard about it because a friend bought a cell phone with the ap on it. I looked into it and downloaded the ap for my iPhone. I also have the Zoompass Mastercard card. I was sceptical at first but I found out it’s the most economical way to pay for merchandise online. I buy my iTunes aps with it and it doesn’t cost me a penny in charges. Transferring money from my bank account is as simple as paying a bill and the money is deposited very quickly, as fast as 1 business day depending on what time you make the transfer. I now have a prepaid Mastercard and I don’t have to pay a user fee like Vanilla or the other prepaid cards charge. Couldn’t be happier. I think it will go over big because it’s already installed on many cell phones and the information that comes with the phone packaging is promoting it. Also, because huge corporations are backing it, there is perceived little risk to the consumer.

]]> By: Zoompass Trials Mobile Payment Tag | cadiviempresas.com http://gigaom.com/2009/06/15/zoompass-takes-mobile-payments-to-the-canadian-masses/#comment-214095 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:40:35 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=54220#comment-214095 [...] a mobile payment service launched last year by a consortium of Canadian telecom players, is branching out with the introduction of a wireless [...]

]]> By: Zoompass Trials Mobile Payment Tag – GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2009/06/15/zoompass-takes-mobile-payments-to-the-canadian-masses/#comment-214094 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:43:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=54220#comment-214094 [...] a mobile payment service launched last year by a consortium of Canadian telecom players, is branching out with the introduction of a wireless [...]

]]> By: Dan http://gigaom.com/2009/06/15/zoompass-takes-mobile-payments-to-the-canadian-masses/#comment-214093 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:27:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=54220#comment-214093 I wonder how quickly Ebay will ban this as a money-transfer system like they did for Google Payments. The cost is more than 50 cents really, you have to pay to withdraw your funds as well if you need it in cash. Maybe Paypal will re-launch its Debit Mastercard in Canada again to better compete, hopefully denominated in CAD$.

]]> By: Dave Fleet http://gigaom.com/2009/06/15/zoompass-takes-mobile-payments-to-the-canadian-masses/#comment-214092 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:39:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=54220#comment-214092 Hi Hubert,

Up-front: I work on the team helping to launch Zoompass.

I’m glad you did hear about the launch. In fact, Zoompass has been widely covered, from the Globe and Mail, to the Toronto Star, to CBC and beyond. If you’d like to check out the latest media coverage, you can check out http://delicious.com/zoompass/mediacoverage.

Cheers,

Dave

]]> By: Hubert http://gigaom.com/2009/06/15/zoompass-takes-mobile-payments-to-the-canadian-masses/#comment-214091 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:26:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=54220#comment-214091 I think they need a bit more publicity as the only news I heard is from the 680 news at the moment.

Doesn’t paypal has something similar that you can send money to mobile numbers?

]]> By: Look Who’s Talking About Us… | Zoompass Blog http://gigaom.com/2009/06/15/zoompass-takes-mobile-payments-to-the-canadian-masses/#comment-214090 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:19:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=54220#comment-214090 [...] Zoompass Takes Mobile Payments to the (Canadian) Masses – Gigaom, June 15, 2009 “Here in the U.S., getting a bunch of mobile carriers together to agree on anything is a bit like herding cats. North of the border, however, Canada’s three carriers — Bell Canada, Rogers and TELUS — have joined forces to create Zoompass, a top-to-bottom, designed-for-mobile, money transfer and payments service that launched today.” [...]

]]> By: Jerry Lundergaard http://gigaom.com/2009/06/15/zoompass-takes-mobile-payments-to-the-canadian-masses/#comment-214089 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:06:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=54220#comment-214089 The US is a little different, fierce competition among local, regional and national carriers. The Canadian market essentially has an oligopoly with the 3 carriers owning 95% of all subs. This is a classic case of a typical practice based on that type of market.

]]> By: Jordan Golson http://gigaom.com/2009/06/15/zoompass-takes-mobile-payments-to-the-canadian-masses/#comment-214088 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:32:35 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=54220#comment-214088 AT&T might have a huge userbase, but my friends use Verizon — an AT&T only service would be useless to me.

]]> By: Jesse Kopelman http://gigaom.com/2009/06/15/zoompass-takes-mobile-payments-to-the-canadian-masses/#comment-214087 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:49:49 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=54220#comment-214087 Doe’s AT&T still own a large share of Rogers? They inherited one from AT&T Wireless, but maybe they had to sell it off at some point . . . Anyway, if they do that would seem a natural in for Zoompass coming to the US. Given that the customer base of any of the US Big 4 is larger than the entire population of Canada, it would seem like a single carrier could go it alone here, rather than there needing to be a unified effort.

]]> By: Mobile News - Mobile Industry Buzz!! » Mobile Content Bits: Voice on Maps; Zoompass Payments; Publishers Clearing House Site; Music Trends http://gigaom.com/2009/06/15/zoompass-takes-mobile-payments-to-the-canadian-masses/#comment-214086 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:01:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=54220#comment-214086 [...] —Mobile payments in Canada: Canada’s three carriers, Bell Canada, Rogers and TELUS, have teamed up to offer Zoompass, a mobile service that allows money transfers and payments. To send cash or withdraw money to a bank account costs 50 Canadian cents per transaction. Receiving money or paying for merchandise with the debit Mastercard is free. GigaOm. [...]

]]> By: Jordan Golson http://gigaom.com/2009/06/15/zoompass-takes-mobile-payments-to-the-canadian-masses/#comment-214085 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:56:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=54220#comment-214085 Compared to the fees that PayPal charges (a percentage of money transferred plus 30 cents per transaction https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-receiving-fees-outside) and those from ATM machines, I think a flat rate of 50 cents is quite reasonable.

]]> By: Ryan Neudorf http://gigaom.com/2009/06/15/zoompass-takes-mobile-payments-to-the-canadian-masses/#comment-214084 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:50:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=54220#comment-214084 I wouldn’t exactly call $0.50/transaction “modest.”

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