Vodafone India has partnered with BEST Undertaking, Reliance Energy and Tata Power to offer Mumbaikars an easy-to-use facility using its digital wallet service, Vodafone M-Pesa, that enables consumers to pay their electricity bills. Vodafone m-Pesa offers customers a cashless, secure and easy way for payments with the largest network of agents to enable digitization of money for the cash holding population.
Vodafone claims that with the arrangement, more than 8.7 million subscribers in Mumbai will be able to pay electricity bills through MPesa assisted further by more than 4000 outlets or CashIn Points including Vodafone Company owned stores, franchisees, and multi brand outlets. These CashIn Points provide convenience and ease to customers to convert cash into digital money to participate in digital payment of bills and e-commerce/m-commerce. The bill payment touch points are easily available across the city, including 56 Vodafone brand stores.