SaskTel, a leading Communications Service Provider in Saskatchewan, Canada with over 1.4 million customer connections including over 618,000 wireless accesses, has launched a new mobile payments solution, allowing customers to make purchases using only their mobile device and their banks mobile payments application. To offer this new service, SaskTel partnered with EnStream, a company that develops standardized, secure and easy-to-use mobile payment capabilities that work with existing credit, debit and pre-paid capabilities offered by financial institutions and wireless carriers.
SaskTel which provides quadplay and IT services, including voice, data and Internet, wireless data, IPTV, data centre services and cloud-based services, said that EnStream’s solution will give banks the proven security of SIM based secure elements, as well as the opportunity to maintain their direct relationship with their customers, through their own banking or payment applications.
Ron Styles, SaskTel President and CEO
SaskTel and our customers embrace innovative technology and believe that it exists to simplify and enhance our day to day life. We are very excited to launch this service and plan to offer this functionality to our customers with other financial institutions in the near future.
