The Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme has clarified its involvement in the registration process under the new mobile money service.
This comes after concerns were raised by people enrolling for Vodafone's MPAiSA and Digicel's Mobile Money Service.
However PFIP Project Manager Tillman Bruett said they had asked Digicel and Vodafone to collect some information from new subscribers, namely the gender of the person, whether they live in an urban or rural area and if they currently have a bank account.
Bruett emphasized that under no circumstances should subscribers be asked to provide any details of their bank or account information, adding they have only asked that subscribers tick a box if they have a bank account or not and nothing more.
He added PFIP programme is aimed at increasing the number of people in Fiji accessing banking services by 250,000 by the end of 2011.
Bruett added they had provided seed grants to both Vodafone and Digicel to set up their mobile money services, adding their technical and financial support to both is intended to help unbanked citizens of Fiji.
He said PFIP was strongly encouraged by the high number of subscribers in Vodafone's MPAiSA and Digicel's Mobile Money in such a short period of time.
Story by: Ana Naisoro
