M-payment goes on trial this month but without two major banks on board

M-payment, a new form of electronic payment that utilizes mobile phones, is to go on trial this month among a selected group of users. The news of the trial comes almost a year after an announcement made by PKO BP, Pekao SA, BRE Bank and all three domestic mobile phone operators that they were interested in launching such a project. If the results are satisfactory, a commercial version of the service could be established as soon as early next year. However, the project is being launched without the involvement of either PKO BP or Pekao SA, although none of the companies concerned chose to comment on the why the two banks will not be taking part in the experiment. (Puls Biznesu, p. 6) A.K.