Canada’s big three mobile operators took another small step in advancing their Zoompass mobile-payment service today by announcing a contactless-sticker trial. But a representative of the telcos’ joint venture stressed that they are not after the payments business of the country’s big five banks.
EnStream, the joint venture of Canada’s three major mobile operators, Bell Mobility, Rogers Communications and Telus, is testing a passive sticker to enable subscribers of its Zoompass P2P mobile-commerce service to also tap their phones at merchant locations that accept the MasterCard PayPass application.
The stickers are a companion to contactless prepaid PayPass cards that subscribers to the service can now tap to pay at physical stores from their Zoompass accounts. The sticker trial is scheduled to last for three months.