Bharti Airtel To Pilot XIUS-bcgi Mobile Transaction Platform

XIUS-bcgi, the telecom division of Megasoft, has announced the launch of its eCogNito solution – an end-to-end mobile transaction platform. This launch will be offered as a pilot to Bharti Airtel under a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the two companies.

"Our eCogNito solution will offer Mobile Network Operators a leap in operational efficiency of their revenue assurance systems by providing anytime, anywhere electronic talk time charging and bill payment in self service mode," said Sunny DeWakar, president of XIUS-bcgi’s eCogNito division. "Additionally, it simplifies and speeds up day-to-day mobile transactions and is an ideal replacement for smart cards that are currently being used for different applications."

"We have generated early interest with the current launch of our mobile commerce service in India, and we already have more than 260,000 customers signed up," said Pallab Mitra, head of m-Commerce for Bharti Airtel. "We believe that the solutions being offered by XIUS-bcgi will improve the ease of use and accessibility of new products and services that we plan to offer with our m-commerce initiatives."

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G V Kumar, CEO of XIUS-bcgi, said, "We are pleased to have been chosen by Bharti Airtel to launch our latest m-commerce solution. As a reference carrier, Airtel will enable operators worldwide to realise how quickly and easily they can roll out their own m-commerce services."

A network-agonistic Contact-less SIM/(U)SIM application based on a unique dual chip architecture with onboard cryptographic coprocessors, eCogNito is compliant with international industry standards in multiple verticals - GSM, 3GPP, ETSI (telecom), ISO 14443, Mifare, FeliCa, NFC (contact-less cards) and EMVCo (Visa, CAST), VGP, as well as GlobalPlatform (Banking).

Another innovation, designed with printed electronics technology, is a paper-thin self-service terminal device with through-the-glass touch sensing termed Active Posters (APs). These can be mounted behind any retail shop with glass front, instantly transforming it into a 24x7 storefront.

To be issued by mobile network operators, the CL SIMs will work with the millions of existing handsets in-use, allowing consumers to perform contact-less transactions for prepaid recharge, electronic bill payment, booking movie tickets and accessing digital content, coupons/tokens on the move – all of this with a simple, intuitive touch of their handset to 'target icons' on the APs anywhere, anytime.

Consumers will also be able to touch their handsets to 'target icons' on APs placed in cafes, music shops, multiplexes, fast food restaurants, etc to automatically set up local, high-speed free data connections using multiple short-range wireless connectivity technologies (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, etc) and download rich media content like video clips, games and animations in minutes to their handset/memory cards.