REGULATING MOBILE MONEY BEING ISSUED BY THE TELE COMMUNICATION COMPANIES : WHO IS WATCHING?
Introduction My first concern on monitoring the telecommunication industry with respect to E-money development by way of Mobile-Money was in my article in the Ghanaian Times (November 2009) captioned “Regulating E-Money: Watch and Monitor the Telecommunication and IT Companies”. This article is available on my blogspot: kofianokye.blogspot.com published June 2011 and if you have time I recommend you kindly take a quick glance at it for a different perspective that may enrich your appreciation of my concern. I am tempted to re-echo the issue of regulation after reading in the BF&T a news extra captioned “Airtel Launches online shopping portal” indicating that Airtel has recently launched Airtel Money Market, an e-commerce website and online shopping platform that allows its customers to use their mobile money (m-money) wallets to purchase goods and services from participating merchants. For this particular platform if what the consumer saw on the website is not what was p