So I was reading this article about mobile payment service jana on @yibei .com http://www.yibei.com/book/506b12a5f47e8e397f0000ae
And the story of this company is that this guy basically went around to developing market phone carriers and would bring in a dufflebag full of cash and offer to buy airtime and access to their customers phone numbers!....he now has access to 90 to 100 percent of many emerging markets phone numbers! Like for example he has everyone of the more than 800 million prepaid mobile phone numbers in India! And 2 billion total numbers! ALL in developing countries!
See in developing countries, mobile phone payments are month to month or week to week or even hour to hour! I remember a story about how Afghan Police forces were being paid with prepaid phone minutes, as they were transferable and thus a form of currency! basically mobile phone time is seen more of a luxury in developing countries and so its a great way to send payments via text message to ANY phone even if it is not a smartphone!
Even someone in india with some non smartphone who receives a text from this JANA service that says you have received fifty rupees, that person will see that text and automatically think "Oh good! I have fifty rupees!" And just like the Chinese and their Alipay app, this Jana eems to have been a precursor.
This article here from 2012 explains how in 2012 this company alreay ha access to over 2 billlion people through their mobile phones via text!
http://www.yibei.com/book/506b12a5f47e8e397f0000ae
Jana also offers surveys and product testing as incentives to earn money! And jana in 2013 even released this infographic to show their results from a survey of people in developing nations asking if they had heard of bitcoin and if they believe it is safe (suprising that Mexico is the least aware with only 16% having heard of bitcoin before! You would THINK that with all of mexicos cartels an drug dealers and trafficers they would be all over bitcoin and other altcoins that are more anonymous!
So what do you thnk Dont you also ee the big opportunity for bitcoin here to integrate with JANA and other mobile phone payment services?! We need a campaign to get Mobile Phone proviers AND food merchants to accept bitcoin by offering them longterm locked in 0 percent fee spot rates for bitcoin and a solid connection and way for them to recieve cash for thir bitcoin whenever they need to cash out any bitcoin they collect as payment from locals, so both mobile phone service providers can pay their overhead and employees with cash when they need to if they are "stuck" with too many bitcoins if they arent near many bitcoin exchange options!
Chinese are now using Alipay as their biggest mobile payment service! It offers p2p lending opportunities to loan out and borrow money at competitive rates! And WebBot predicted how this trend will lead to chinese massive national embrace of bitcoin as a national reserve currency with india to follow an then southeast asia like inddonesia and malaysia etc !
So jut IMAGINE when all of these services start to combine!
The future is OURS!