Canadians Can Now Top up Prepaid Mobile Phones of Their Family in India With PayPal and TransferTo
July 27 2015 - 11:00PM
Business Wire
PayPal today announced that they have teamed up with TransferTo,
a global airtime remittance leader, to offer mobile airtime top-up
in Canada. Without any transfer fees, Canadians can now use their
PayPal account to instantly top up prepaid mobile phones of their
relatives and friends in more than 100 countries including India.
All the Canadian-based sender needs is their PayPal account and the
mobile number of the recipient, to top up a prepaid mobile phone
using their smartphone, tablet or computer on
www.paypal-mobiletopup.ca.
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“Mobile phones help connect people with their communities, and
give them access to education, employment, and essential medical
and financial services,” said Cameron Schmidt, general manager,
PayPal Canada. “With today’s announcement, Canadians can extend a
lifeline to their grandmother who needs to frequently call her
doctor in Delhi or help their brother access the Internet from his
mobile phone in Ludhiana.”
Prepaid mobile phones dominate in India
According to Statistics Canada, one out of five people living in
Canada were born abroad. A large number of Canadian immigrants are
from India1 – a region that has heavy mobile phone usage. India is
the third leading country of birth among people who immigrated to
Canada between 2006 and 2011i. There are 941 million mobile
connections in India of which 95 per cent are prepaidii. With
PayPal and TransferTo’s new service, Indo-Canadians can top up
prepaid phones of their family and friends that are registered with
leading Indian mobile phone service providers.
Supporting loved ones back home
“People come first for me. Staying connected with my aunts,
uncles and relatives in India is an essential part of my life,”
says basketball superfan, Nav Bhatia, a Toronto-based Sikh
entrepreneur who moved to Canada 30 years ago. “In life, and in
basketball – communication is the key to success. PayPal now offers
me a way to top up my relatives’ prepaid mobile phones. Now,
regardless of the distance, we can operate better as a team and
feel closer as a family.”
About PayPal
At PayPal, we put people at the centre of everything we do.
Founded in 1998, we continue to be at the forefront of the digital
payments revolution. Last year, we processed 4 billion payments, of
which 1 billion were made on mobile devices. PayPal gives people
better ways to connect to their money and to each other, helping
them safely access and move their money and offering a choice of
how they would like to pay or be paid. With our 169 million active
customer accounts, we have created an open and secure payments
ecosystem that people and businesses choose to securely transact
with each other online, in stores and on mobile devices. PayPal is
a truly global payments platform that is available to people in 203
markets, allowing customers to get paid in more than 100
currencies, withdraw funds to their bank accounts in 57 currencies
and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 26 currencies. For
more information on PayPal, visit
https://ca.stories.paypal-corp.com. For PYPL financial information
visit investor.paypal-corp.com.
About TransferTo
TransferTo is a leading global provider of mobile airtime
remittance. For more details, please visit transfer-to.com.
1 Statistics Canada. 2011. Immigration and Ethnocultural
Diversity in Canada. Version updated January 2014. Ottawa,
Canada. http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/as-sa/99-010-x/99-010-x2011001-eng.cfm#a2
(July 14, 2015) ii GSMA Intelligence. 2014. Definitive data and
analysis for the mobile industry. London, United Kingdom.
https://gsmaintelligence.com/ (July 14, 2015)
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