Bangkok--19 Nov--dtac
Total Access Communication Public Company Limited (dtac), one of Thailand’s leading mobile phone operators, today announced that its ‘ATM SIM’ has won the GSM Association (GSMA)’s Asia Mobile Awards 2008 as Asia’s ‘Best Mobile Money Service’.
The GSMA, the global trade association for mobile operators, announced the winners last night during the GSMA's Mobile Asia Congress gala opening party in Macau.
“We are honored that our innovative 'ATM SIM' has received such recognition at this year’s Asia Mobile Awards 2008. The award underlines our ongoing commitment to further develop the advanced mobile money service to bring convenience to consumers,” "said Tore Johnsen, dtac's CEO.
ATM SIM is the joint development project of KASIKORNBANK and dtac to allow customers to make financial transactions conveniently everywhere. The SIM card innovation makes financial transactions handy for mobile users. It is Thailand’s first and only service that enables customers to use ATM services via their mobile phones. Customers can check their bank balance, make transfers and payments and be informed of their payment deadlines wherever they are.
The SIM guarantees the same security standard as served for other financial transaction channels of the bank but provides its subscribers with better convenience. Currently, there are over 700,000 ATM SIM subscribers who have carried out as many as 6.8 million transactions and are transferring over 4 billion baht a month. It is believed that that the number of ATM SIM subscribers will reach 1 million by this year.
GSMA's Asia Mobile Awards 2008 is a unique platform recognizing outstanding growth, innovation and leadership across Asia's mobile industry. A specialist panel of independent analysts, journalists and industry experts judged the winners. The Asia Mobile Awards attracted more than 120 entries this year from companies across Asia and other parts of the world including the U.S and Europe.
The awards open to operators, vendors and the broad value chain from across the mobile industry that provide products and services that are commercially available in at least one Asian market.
The GSMA represents more than 750 mobile networks across 218 countries.
For more information
Winners 2008: http://www.asiamobileawards.com/winners_08.shtml
Nominees 2008:
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