Tata Teleservices Ltd, one of India’s largest and fastest-growing telecom networks, and PayMate, India’s leading mobile commerce company, have partnered to offer a service that enables 20 million plus Tata Indicom subscriber base to book flight tickets anywhere, anytime on the mobile phone. Tata Indicom is the first telecom operator to go live with PayMate.

The service enables real-time flight bookings across all domestic airlines at the best available fares. The service is targeted at frequent fliers on low-cost and full-service airlines who value the convenience of flight ticketing anywhere, anytime via the mobile phone, instead of being limited to Internet access on a computer. Customers need to download this application one-time from Tata Zone to experience the user-friendly service. The charges for the application vary from     Rs. 10 for a three-day trial up to Rs 30 a month.

The simple steps that make the service work are:

q       Select Origin City, Destination City and Travel Date to get a list of all flights with timings and best fares;

q       Choose your preferred flight along with passenger name and email ID; and

q       Enter your credit card details over a secure connection and pay to get an instant booking confirmation

Announcing the launch of the service, Mr Pankaj Sethi, President, Value Added Services, Tata Teleservices Ltd, said: “Ticketing has been one of the most popular m-Commerce applications in the mobile telephony space—this is because convenience and flexibility on time are big pull factors. We are excited to partner with PayMate and add flight ticketing application in bouquet of value-added-services.”

Commenting on the partnership, Mr Ajay Adiseshann, Founder and Managing Director, PayMate, said: “Considering the rapid proliferation of mobile handsets in the country, the cell phone is emerging as the premier device for conducting transactions. Partnering with a leading player like Tata Indicom will just make this facility available across several million handsets in one go and provide an extremely convenient ticketing channel for customers.”

Tata Indicom and PayMate also plan to offer a range of ticketing applications in the near future—with PayMate built in as a mobile payment option.

PayMate has also partnered with Kingfisher Airlines and launched an SMS-based ticketing service.

Sourced From: Perfect Relations Limited