Thanks to its platforms and its convergent network, Belgacom is very well positioned to bring answers to many of these questions facing society. The adoption of flexible technologies that are varied and convergent allows companies to conceive and exploit their products and services in the "any³" economy - anywhere, anytime and anyhow (n’importe où, n’importe quand et n’importe comment).
Mobility
The balance between work and private life, traffic congestion and climate worries are all high on the agenda of policy makers and businessmen, and are leading to a proliferation of commercial models and innovative ecosystem based on mobile technologies and Internet.
Belgacom has played a leading proactive role as a participant in these new ecosystems in many sectors, such as in micro-payments. Our portable purse PingPing, combined with NFC technology already present in smartphones, gives access to a whole range of applications, such as paying for public transport, parking, refueling electric cars, hiring public cycles, cultural activities ...
- PingPing: mobile platform for micro-payment allowing users to pay for products and services with their mobile phones. Purchases can be made via an NFC tag (a sticker equipped with a microchip that allows proximity payments), by sending an SMS to a short number, or via an Android application.
- Paying for parking by SMS in five more towns in 2010. 14 towns now use the service, representing 30% of all the paying parking spaces in Belgium - and totaling 7 million transactions since the service was launched in 2006.
- Launch of an SMS ticketing solution for the De Lijn transport service in Flanders in February 2010 - more than 800,000 transactions in 2010.