{"id":124589,"date":"2015-04-21T08:41:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T06:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=124589"},"modified":"2015-04-21T08:44:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T06:44:18","slug":"mtn-and-vodacom-mobile-payment-systems-interconnect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/124589-mtn-and-vodacom-mobile-payment-systems-interconnect.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN and Vodacom mobile payment systems interconnect"},"content":{"rendered":"

Customers of MTN Mobile Money and Vodacom M-Pesa in East Africa will be able to transfer money to each other following an agreement between MTN Group and Vodafone Group to interconnect their mobile money services.<\/p>\n

This interconnect deal enables international mobile payments between M-Pesa customers in Kenya, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Mozambique; and MTN Mobile Money customers in Uganda, Rwanda and Zambia.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur agreement with MTN to connect our mobile money wallets in East Africa is a fantastic example of co-operation and interoperability between competing mobile operators,\u201d said Vodafone’s Michael Joseph.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy working together, we will deliver cheaper, faster money transfers, improving the lives of many people living in the seven countries involved.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Together, we aim to build a scalable model that will accelerate remittance roll-out across the continent,” said\u00a0MTN Group head of mobile financial services Serigne Dioum.<\/p>\n

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Vodacom and MTN have announced an interconnect agreement between their mobile money systems in East Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":77100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10106,14],"tags":[36,1109,29903,42,6755,29905,41],"class_list":["post-124589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","category-cellular","tag-active","tag-m-pesa","tag-michael-joseph","tag-mtn","tag-mtn-mobile-money","tag-serigne-dioum","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124591,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124589\/revisions\/124591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}