Aspiro expands micro payment agreement with FINN torget
Aspiro Mobile Solutions has expanded its agreement with FINN torget for the delivery of micro payments. Aspiro already facilitates FINN torget’s service where users can pay for advertisements through a pay call. Starting today, Aspiro will also provide the possibility of payment through SMS.
Finn.no is Norway's largest buying and selling market on the Internet. The service has over 4 million users per month and on average there are about 300 000 ads available on the site.
Since mid-July, Aspiro has handled all available telephone numbers, which customers are calling in to when paying for their ads on the site. Starting today, the possibility to pay for ads through an SMS payment is also added. Users can thus sell a product through FINN torget using a micro payment charged to the their cell phone bill either through a call or through SMS.
"Micro payment through SMS over GAS is an effective and easy payment solution that we will continue to see more of in the future. For consumers it is much easier to pay minor amounts through SMS, than to enter credit card number and codes from their bank security code box. For Aspiro, this is about delivering a large scale product, which we has several years experience in doing”, says Peter Tonstad, CEO of Aspiro Mobile Solutions.
The service to FINN torget is among the largest in Norway on the new CPA GAS (Content Provider Access – Goods And Services)- regime, which was introduced in January this year. The regime facilitates payment of goods and services through the mobile telephone bill.
For more information, please contact:
Kristin Breivik Eldnes
Head of Corporate communication and IR
Tel: +47 908 07 389
e-mail: kristin.eldnes@aspiro.com
Peter Tonstad
Managing Director Mobile Solutions
Tel: +47 481 76 102
e-mail: peter.tonstad@aspiro.com
Aspiro in Brief
Aspiro has unique positioning as the world’s only provider of both streaming music and TV services delivered as a complete white label service to partners. Aspiro utilize over ten years mobile technology and retail experience, delivering its premium services to companies worldwide including T-Mobile, Telefónica O2, Telenor, 3, TeliaSonera, BBC, Aftonbladet, mBlox, TVNorge, Entel and VG. Aspiro is listed on the Nasdaq OMX Stock Exchange in Stockholm. 2009 sales were SEK 441 m and the company has some 120 employees.
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