Obopay gets 60 million potential customers

By on June 20, 2007 in News

Good news for the team over at Obopay who will wake up on Wednesday morning with 60 million potential mobile money transfer/purchase customers, thanks to a deal with Verizon.

Link: Free Article – WSJ.com

Verizon Wireless plans to Wednesday announce a deal with mobile-payment company Obopay Inc. to allow subscribers to transfer money and make purchases via their mobile phones.

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  • Mr-I

    Obopay Rocks while Paypal “Talks”

    Does anyone else thing its sweet justice that these little guys from Obopay are simply mopping the floor with Paypal Mobile !

    Obopay has in short order,

    Launched with Verizon, Announced with Citi, Launched with AOL IM & raised money from nothing but tier one players like Qualcomm Ventures & Redpoint.

    Paypal Mobile is arrogant, aggresive and over charges, their community with poor business practices. This game was PayPals game to loose, and sure enough, they are losing it.

    I love it when good people with good ideas win by doing the right thing for their customers – shareholders & the market in general.

    Rock on Obopay!

    MR-I

  • http://www.wolfsonresearch.org Roland Holmes

    Yes, its surprising that Paypal has done so little on mobile.

    Especially when Paypal started of designed for mobile, backed by Nokia (called X.com originally) and then it moved to the web when operators built walled gardens.

    But I expect they will get round to it in due course. Probably Google checkout is occupying their minds….

    RH

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