Rabo Mobiel was a Dutch

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. It was launched on 15 November 2006 into a market where 50 virtual network operators were active at the time. Rabo Mobiel runs in cooperation with mother company

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Nederland, offering on

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and prepaid mobile telecommunications services, and other mobile banking and payment services. Originally launched to target the ca. 3 million Rabobank

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customers, Rabo Mobiel has grown to use web and retail channels, and target different segments, including youth, students and small businesses. At the end of 2007, Rabo Mobiel claimed to have 125.000 customers.

Innovations

In addition to core telecommunications and mobile internet services, Rabo Mobiel focuses on promoting mobile banking and payments capabilities and applications. This includes products like SMS alerts, mobile banking via secure WAP, Java apps, smartphone Apps, SMS, mobile phone parking services, mobile banking via

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Jet, balance-checking apps, etc. From 2006-2009, Rabo Mobiel also worked extensively on NFC technologies, including trials at

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supermarkets (together with

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and

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, as well as Stichting RFID Nederland and

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), proof-of-concept programmes and trials with

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and Stichting Diabeter, MyOrder, Carian, and the

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. In July 2008 in conjunction with Rabobank Nederland, Rabo Mobiel launched ''Rabo SMS Betalen'', a product for person-to-person and person-to-merchant payments using SMS and Java apps. The product was operator- and bank-independent, and therefore available to all customers, not only customers of Rabo Mobiel or the Rabobank.Rabobank lanceert SMS betalen
Tonie van Ringelestijn, Webwereld, 26 juni 2008. SMS Betalen was part of the same family of capabilities as later offered by NFC-based payments services Cashless Betalen, MyOrder and mijnID.

References

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