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I have downloaded it, and it's a bit clunky to work with. Hope they iterate fast on this one. But I also think, this should not have been a problem since I used Google Wallet and it was a superior experience. May be the teams were different?
I live in India. Many people have launched UPI based payment apps. Even government launched an app called BHIM. It is really good. UPI is a really good concept. The problem: None of these apps is used by most of the vendors in cities. Except for Paytm which is available with many small vendors in cities. They used the demonetization period to heavily market the app by going vendor to vendor singing them up.BHIM is re…
What is the use of UPI now that Indians have so many different types of denominations for transactions.
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UPI is a private payment instrument. It has nothing to do with the Government. (BHIM is not a government app either, despite our PM promoting it)
You have an interesting definition of 'private'. http://www.npci.org.in/ Maybe diversify the sources you get your news from?
PS : It's pronounced like 'Taze' but with a soft T. It means 'quick' :)
FYI, 'soft T' doesn't mean anything to western English speakers. They have a 'T' and a 'Th', the latter of which is actually a fricative, and not really a 'T' sound in the strict sense. I guess an Indian 'soft T' is better described as a more Italian sounding 'T', articulated mainly against the teeth.
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This is a story i'm trying to understand. 1. Indian Government wants to emulate something like SSN (in the US) as a single identifier for every citizen in this country. 2. This is an easy way for a Government to track the actions of every individual digitally and financially - end of Privacy!
1) SSN is not really a model for a unique identifier for every citizen. Immigrants have SSNs too, and can have different ones if they have done multiple stays in the country. You also can live without an SSN in the US. 2) I mean... the government is entitled to know where your money is coming from if they are asking you for taxes. otherwise, there would be no way to combat tax fraud. This is not a new thing.
I live in India. Many people have launched UPI based payment apps. Even government launched an app called BHIM. It is really good. UPI is a really good concept. The problem: None of these apps is used by most of the vendors in cities. Except for Paytm which is available with many small vendors in cities. They used the demonetization period to heavily market the app by going vendor to vendor singing them up.BHIM is re…
MPESA has been a huge success in Kenya, no teaching required. You just have to make it very secure and convenient.
PS : It's pronounced like 'Taze' but with a soft T. It means 'quick' :)
Not having a wallet option is a deal breaker. Cashless payments is very popular amongst youth here and majority of us college students don't have a functional bank account which makes us either carry our parents debit cards or our parents "Paytm" us (yes, it's become a verb here) our monthly pocket money. Regardless of that, there is still a very poor adoption of cashless modes of payments by street hawkers and kiran…
No its not. Why do you want wallet when you can transfer directly from bank account with same ease? 270 million bank accounts were opened under Jan Dhan, mainly poor. Paytm is transforming itself to payment bank and UPI provider.
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FYI, 'soft T' doesn't mean anything to western English speakers. They have a 'T' and a 'Th', the latter of which is actually a fricative, and not really a 'T' sound in the strict sense. I guess an Indian 'soft T' is better described as a more Italian sounding 'T', articulated mainly against the teeth.
Is a soft T like the way some Americans say "water", i.e. with a "D" like sound, as compared to the hard "T" in water traditional in British English?