PayPal and Deutsche Telekom Partner, Expand European Reach
PayPal and Deutsche Telekom announced a direct carrier billing relationship, which enables Deutsche Telekom users to make purchases directly to their mobile phone account. Now a part of PayPal’s carrier payment network, Deutsche Telekom and PayPal will help to extend carrier payments across Europe and will provide an opportunity for both companies to reach more consumers and digital goods merchants. In 2013, more than $9 billion of digital goods payment volume went through PayPal. As one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies, Deutsche Telekom has a presence in 14 markets throughout Europe, with some 144 million mobile customers. This will make it easy for digital goods merchants who have not adopted carrier billing to offer this payment option to consumers across Western, Central and Eastern Europe. Deutsche Telekom joins more than 250 carriers as part of PayPal’s carrier payments network.