Belgian mobile carrier Mobile Vikings has began accepting bitcoin payments – claiming it is the first telecom operator to do so.
The firm’s service is available in Belgium and the Netherlands. Payments can be utilised to leading up credit or to buy new SIM cards and gift vouchers.
A press release from the operator reads:
“With this new strategy of payment, Mobile Vikings anticipates the demand of its early adopters, who had been not only the very first to join Mobile Vikings, but had been usually the very first to purchase bitcoins, and now want to money these virtual coins.”
Mobile Vikings have decided to employ the BitPay platform, which has already gained a lot of traction among merchants in the bitcoin economy.
BitPay also assists to eradicate any ambiguities by converting bitcoin using the real time exchange rate. It executes the conversion at the moment of payment, which means exchange rate fluctuations aren’t extremely relevant.
“Just as e mail and Skype have changed the world of mail delivery and telephony, Bitcoin is a payment program that is basically revolutionary for the monetary globe. Every person is speaking about it, but handful of people know it, let alone use it,” mentioned Hans Similon, Chief Viking Evangelist (Yes, that is his true title).
He added: “As innovation is component of the DNA of Mobile Vikings, we are the first telecom organization to introduce a payment option with bitcoins worldwide.”
“It’s the only way, for ourselves and our members, to actually get to know this innovative electronic payment option. The proof of the pudding is in the consuming!”
Mobile Vikings told CoinDesk that subscribers have enquired about bitcoin, as numerous of them were early adopters of the digital currency and already have a bitcoin stash.
“We attempt to listen to our neighborhood as much as attainable, so that’s why we decided to implement it. Mobile Vikings is also identified for being revolutionary and a bit rebellious, so in our eyes there is a ideal match,” said Mobile Vikings’ chief marketing and advertising officer Dorien Aerts.
At the starting of 2013, Mobile Vikings had far more than 160,000 subscribers in Belgium, with next to no marketing, apart from a few fascinating guerrilla techniques. The company has a going presence in the Netherlands and Poland, too.
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Mobile Vikings: the First Cellular Network to Accept Bitcoin
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