Yettel customers can purchase tickets or monthly passes for the services of public transport service providers of major cities, BKK, Volánbusz and GYSEV with the costs charged to their mobile phone bills. This offering has now been expanded with the time-based tickets of BKK. The purchase transaction can be easily managed using the Yettel Wallet app. Postpaid customers pay for the product when settling their next mobile phone bill based on the ‘buy now, pay later’ principle. For prepaid customers, the amount is immediately debited to their available balance which means that they don’t need to give their bank card data in the app. The app purchase is completed online, that is, customers need active data connection to purchase, validate and show their tickets. The transaction incurs no extra cost, customers are not charged any convenience fee for their purchase.
“Transport-related purchases are clearly the most popular mobile payment transactions in the Yettel Wallet app. Over the past years, parking and motorway toll payment accounted for 75% of all mobile payment transactions. The new time-based tickets will benefit not only regular public transport users but also car owners who use public transport services occasionally, for short periods of time. This is in line with Yettel’s goal to provide simple, easy-to-use and relevant services to make people’s lives easier”, said Máté Pomezanski, Yettel’s Digital Products Director.
Yettel’s mobile payment services are currently used by more than 600,000 customers. In addition to mobile payment solutions, they include mobile marketplace services such as the purchasing of apps or other digital content. This means, that customers with Android- and iOS-based mobile phones can pay for the apps, music titles or other content purchased in Play Store and App Store using their mobile phones with the cost charged to their Yettel bill. Yettel was the first operator in Hungary to launch this service for Android OS users.