Alipay Mobile Payment pilot comes to the end

Alipay, the Internet payment subsidiary of the Chinese B2B e-commerce group Alibaba, announced that its mobile phone payment service official promotion stage will begin this year. 

Now Alipay is going to hire wireless development engineers, including mobile phone product developers, wireless product managers, and wireless system engineers for the mobile phone payment service. Large team of wireless technology specialists is expected to be set up before the end of 2009.

According to Song Manyuan, manager for Alipay's wireless business department, Alipay started tapping the mobile phone payment business at the beginning of 2008. After one-year beta test period, this service is considered to be launched later this year. As reported, during beta test period approximately 100,000 accounts took participation.

As Song Manyuan noted mobile phone payment is a strategic business of Alipay. In the future it will be improved and upgraded in order to provide better services to its users.