Bharti Airtel and mChek announced the tie-up clocked one million user registrations for its mCommerce services since lunch of the services in June 2008.

We strongly believe that mCommerce will be one of the top 3 services offered over mobile in the future and going forward it has the power to facilitate a paradigm shift in the way consumers do commercial transactions and business,” said Sanjay Gupta, Chief Marketing Officer, Mobile Services, Airtel.

“Consumer adoption and repeat usage of the service has been extremely encouraging”, said Sanjay Swamy, CEO of mChek. “With the Reserve Bank of India’s mobile payments guidelines now in place, banks and merchants are fast adopting our open-platform to build a thriving eco-system, and a compelling suite of services for consumers.”

The tie-up also announced the launch of mChekMall which will be available on WAP and Java environments enabling Airtel subscribers to conveniently book flight, movie and other services through their mobile phones. All new Airtel SIM cards will come preinstalled with mobile payment capability.