Mobile Vikings: the First Cellular Network to Accept Bitcoin
Belgian mobile carrier Mobile Vikings has started accepting bitcoin payments - claiming it is the first telecom operator to do so. The company's service is available in Belgium and the Netherlands. Payments can be used to top up credit or to buy new SIM cards and gift vouchers. A press release from the operator reads: "With this new method of payment, Mobile Vikings anticipates the demand of its early adopters, who were not only the first to join Mobile Vikings, but were often the first to purchase bitcoins, and now want to cash these virtual coins." Mobile Vikings have decided to employ....
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On December 19th, 2013, it was reported that European cellular carrier Mobile Vikings would begin accepting bitcoin payments. The carrier serves The Netherlands, Belgium, and Poland, and has preliminary statistics on just how bitcoin is doing with their service. "We have reached almost 100 payments via Bitcoin the past days," said Dorien Aerts, Chief Marketing Officer at the company in a statement to newsBTC. Despite that relatively small number, Mobile Vikings is pleased with the amount of transactions they've received in the digital currency. Aerts told me that it's "more than expected....
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