Over the years, we have invested in our commerce platform to add popular and effective forms of payment around the world to ensure people can pay for apps and in-app content conveniently. He thanked Dar and Bajwa for a timely decision.At Google Play, we have been committed to giving users safe and convenient ways to pay for their favourite apps and games – while helping developers of all sizes transact with millions of users globally and build successful businesses on the platform. The minister said that the IT ministry had written to Finance Minister Ishaq Dar seeking a time frame for the said implementation, on the telecom operators' request for the ministry's assistance. Haque further stated that the IT and finance ministries will form a strategy through consultations with the central bank in the meantime.
He said that the telecom operators have been given a month's time to implement the payment mechanism. "Paid Google Play apps will not be suspended in Pakistan," he assured while sharing that the SBP has been directed to delay the implementation of the policy - under which the payments had been suspended - for a month. Later, the IT minister confirmed that the Finance Ministry has agreed to release the payments and said that it will be done as per schedule. However, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Finance Tariq Bajwa contacted Haque and shared views regarding the suspended payments. Telcos were allowing their customers to purchase these products through airtime and then remit funds abroad reflecting such transactions as payments for the acquisition of IT-related services.
The direct carrier billing (DCB) mechanism was discontinued by the central bank after which a payment of $34 million on an annual basis through mobile companies to international service providers, including Google, Amazon and Meta, got stuck.ĭCB is generally an online mobile payment method, which allows users to make purchases by charging payments to their mobile phone carrier bill.
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