Life has become so fast with the
advancing fast technology that it is now difficult to concentrate on one job at
a time. Time seems to have reduced drastically from the usual 24 hours a day.
Gone are the days when people used to take out exclusive hours from their daily
routine to visit banks for deposit or withdrawal of money, post offices for
posting letters and parcels, bill paying counters for paying telephone, water, gas,
electricity etc. bills, rail reservation counters for booking journey tickets. I
wonder how we were able to find time for doing all these petty jobs and that
too standing in queues for hours together.
With technology advancing by leaps and
bounds and internet becoming an essential part of human existence, today’s
teenagers refuse to believe the above facts. The smart phones have brought in a
sea change in the urban lifestyle. Before the advent of these “smartees” less
than a decade ago people used to sit before a desktop or laptop to do banking,
mailing and bill paying jobs. But today with the introduction of mobile banking
and several mobile apps for bill payments etc via surfing the net on the go
life has become much easier and comfortable. People now do not waste precious
time in sending mails or making bill payments or booking tickets. They now do
these petty jobs on their smart phones while travelling to work place or while
doing things like dining, watching TV, or while taking a stroll after dinner or even while on a ‘morning walk’ work out.
Mobile wallets have made life still more comfortable by their unique features of
ease for online payments and money transfers. Airtel Money was the first wallet I had used to pay for online recharge
of my prepaid Airtel mobile phones to get 10% extra talk time on recharges.
On 1st May 2005 Bharti Airtel kicked off a season of savings on its 'My Airtel' mobile application
for all its prepaid customers across India. This App has several attractive
features to lure the customers towards airtel in this competitive market of
telcom service providers. As the chief Product Officer, Bharati Airtel(India) puts it, “The ‘My
Airtel’ application has been designed to follow an intuitive and easy to use
interface which allows customers to conveniently discover, access and
self-manage Airtel services across mobile, fixed line and DTH platforms”. Among
all the features offered by this app I like the following three features the
most.
1.
The unique new ‘shake your phone’ feature which is designed to offer a fun way to uncover new offers. Just shake the phone and listen to sound of
savings after every recharge.
2.
PCI DSS certification makes the
my Airtel app the most Safe, Secure to recharge & pay bills and allows
fastest checkouts with card store feature for prepaid online mobile, Digital TV
DTH and data card / dongle recharges, postpaid online mobile bill payment etc.
I have used this feature to a lot of advantage and added all the prepaid mobile
accounts of my entire family to do recharges from one place.
3.
With the shortcut
creating feature I have saved my most frequent tasks on home screen
as shortcuts under the ‘I want to’ tab for paying bills, recharging, ordering
games, viewing balances and checking consumption of 2G/3G data.
It
goes without saying that the new My Airtel App is a unique app with several
interesting features any Airtel user will love to use. More details on this app
is available at http://www.airtel.in/myairtel
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