Mobile phone operators provide access to this alternative method of internet usage. When you sign up to a mobile phone operatorâs services â either on a contract or pay-as-you-go basis â you can include access to a certain amount of data (measured in megabytes), allowing you to use your mobile device to connect to the internet within that capped usage limit.
Established in 1996, PayPoint is a leading specialist payments company, processing consumer payments across a wide variety of markets through its retail networks, internet and mobile phone channels. PayPoint has been a constituent of the FTSE4Good Index since 2008.
biometric payment. Biometric payment is a point of sale (POS) technology that uses biometric authentication to identify the user and authorize the deduction of funds from a bank account. Fingerprint payment, based on fingerscanning, is the most common biometric payment method. Often, the system uses two-factor authentication, in which the finger scan takes the place of the card swipe and the user types in a PIN (personal ID number) as usual.