The huge success of Safaricom’s M-Pesa has come to symbolise mobile money for many in the industry and a new feature video from Mobile Money Live raises the issue of who else can pick up the mantle. Operators such as Telenor Pakistan, Globe Telecom in the Philippines and Afghanistan’s Roshan all talk about how they are building their own range of mobile money services.  

Elsewhere it’s all about building partnerships between the various players who need to contribute to the bigger picture. “You got the operators, banks and retailers now starting to work together, which has been the big issue in the past,” said Matthew Talbot, senior VP of mcommerce at Sybase 365. And it would seem, from comments throughout the video, that the company that has the breakthrough success will be the one who best educates the user to change their payment habits of the last twenty years. 

View the full video here.