Tech Shout!

Amidst a zillion daily chores the one thing that one invariably forgets is the payment of their monthly landline phone bill. But hey that just got better with the newly launched service. Now phone bill payments are just a phone call away.

You can now pay your Airtel Landline bill by calling 080-41144114 at no additional service cost and a call from Airtel Landline to this number is absolutely free. Airtel customers can pay thier mpobile phone bill by credit card account as all credit card information is completely confidential and secure.

Apart from English, this free phone bill payment service is available in Kannada language, developed and installed by OnMobile, the leading telecom Value Added Service Providers who have successfully deployed speech recognition based applications in 10 Indian regional languages for wireless & wire-line telecom operators.

“Airtel strives to offer convenient services to its customers and this is a step in that direction. Airtel is the first to offer this service to its customers in Karnataka, India,” said Prem Pradeep, CEO – South Central, Airtel Broadband & Telephone Services .

It is this simple to operate:

An interactive voice recognition based system guides to pay the bill - simply follow the IVR instructions

1. Enter the Airtel Landline number
2. Enter the credit card details and
3. Confirm your intent to pay

One gets a confirmation of the successful completion of the mobile phone bill payment in the same call.

OnMobile has developed and manages this voice based bill-payment service. OnMobile manages the Voice application, real-time integration with Billing systems & credit card payment systems.

“This service has been developed with industry standard security technologies, thus making credit card payments extremely secure. Currently we have more than 1000 subscribers who have used this service,” said Balachandran Unni, Director M-Commerce & Mobile Marketing, OnMobile.

Unni continued, “OnMobile will be adding more convenient payment modes like cheque pick-up to address a larger customer base.”