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'''SimPay''' was a [[consortium]] which was founded to promote [[mobile payment]] in 2003 but which was closed as of June 2005.<ref name="The Register 2005">{{cite web | title=Simpay halts mobile commerce project | website=The Register | date=June 27, 2005 | url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/27/simpay_halts_project/ | access-date=October 28, 2016}}</ref> Simpay started in Spain by a number of mobile phone companies to build an open, interoperable solution, but was abandoned when key members pulled out in 2005.<ref name="Button 2005">{{cite news | title=Man's best friend | newspaper=The Economist | date=April 2, 2005 | url=https://www.economist.com/special-report/2005/04/02/mans-best-friend | access-date=October 28, 2016}}</ref>

==History==
In February 2003, [[T-Mobile International AG|T-Mobile]], [[Orange SA|Orange]], [[Telefónica]] and [[Vodafone]] formed a new [[Mobile Payment Services Association]] (MPSA) with the goal to deliver an open, interoperable and commonly branded solution for payments via [[mobile phone]]s, designed to work across all operator networks. In June 2003 the consortium re-branded itself as SimPay.<ref>{{cite web | last=Hammersley | first=Ben | title=Put the tab on my mobile | website=The Guardian | date=May 27, 2004 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2004/may/27/phones.creditcards | access-date=October 28, 2016}}</ref>

In February 2005, [[Orange España|Amena]] and [[Proximus]] joined the consortium.

Simpay planned to create a pan-European framework whereby merchants and content resellers would be able to charge for products and services directly to a subscriber's bill.<ref>{{cite web | last=Shillingford | first=Joia | title=Mobile wallets start to take shape | website=BBC News | date=March 1, 2005 | url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4287341.stm | access-date=October 28, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title='Simpay' blurring the line between a telecom and a bank | website=Taipei Times | date=May 30, 2004 | url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2004/05/30/2003157563 | ref={{sfnref | Taipei Times | 2004}} | access-date=October 28, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Capturing business requirements using use cases | publisher=IBM | date=December 15, 2004 | url=http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/dec04/behrens/ | ref={{sfnref | IBM | 2004}} | access-date=October 28, 2016}}</ref>

In June 2005, Simpay decided, "following the decision of one of its founding Members not to launch Simpay for the foreseeable future, [...] not to pursue its activity on a pan-European scale as originally planned." All activities were put on hold effective June 24, 2005.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Sylvers|first=Eric|date=2005-06-28|title=Mobile payments venture collapses (Published 2005)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/technology/mobile-payments-venture-collapses.html|access-date=2021-01-29|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

The UK Simpay founders started work in 2005 on a project called "Payforit" which was launched in 2007 to provide similar services in the UK.

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20040321213048/http://www.simpay.com/ Official website]

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