Vodafone Qatar and Doha Bank team up to offer Vodafone Money Transfer

Vodafone Money Transfer is a groundbreaking service that will be made available to Vodafone Qatar's customers by the start of 2011. It will leverage international experience from across the Vodafone Group where millions of Vodafone customers are already using mobile money transfer. In Qatar, it will be a world first innovation for Vodafone to provide international transfers as part of their commercial offer.

To use the service customers need to apply for a VMT account from Vodafone Qatar and money can be loaded onto their mobile phone from Doha Bank e-branches or can be loaded directly via a bank transfer. Once a customer has e-money on their VMT account they can than send it locally and abroad anytime they like or use it to pay for goods and services at local shops. Until e-money is transferred or spent it is stored for customers with Doha Bank. This means that customers also have the option to get their e-money back as cash at any time they need it.

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