Mauritius Telecom will stop charging commissions when paying for fuel refilling in petrol pump stations. As an existing (or new) myT Money user, it is good to know those small charges....
Paying bills using Orange Money for the first time. You should too!
Although the service "Orange Money" has been around for a few years now, I have always queued up in the post office to pay my utility bills. Despite it took me only some minutes, I did not bother until my office was relocated to Ebene a month ago. Amazingly simple, each transaction costs only a... Continue Reading →
SBM (finally) launched its mobile banking apps!
Long due since the launch of their new banking system (including a new Internet Banking web site) back in September 2016, the mobile apps have finally been publicly announced yesterday. Designed to run on iOS and Android only, these apps can be downloaded from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store respectively. Unfortunately, if... Continue Reading →
State Bank of Mauritius upgrades its banking system (including internet banking)
The most awaited upgrade is finally available to the public! The State Bank of Mauritius has moved to a new platform during this weekend and the banking services seem to be back to the normal. After an interruption of 24-72 hours (depending on services), customers have gained access to their accounts (hopefully without any additional or missing... Continue Reading →
Credit / debit card charges you might not be aware of.
Earlier today, I was quite surprised to find the item below while viewing my credit card statement using the internet banking service of The State Bank: So, I was charged a fee because I exceeded the limit on my credit card. It sounds a bit dumb because that's why there's a limit fixed. Anyways, on... Continue Reading →
Some SBM customers reported weird incidents today.
After the downtime following the upgrade of their banking system upgrade a couple of months ago, several SBM customers have reported some weird incidents today.
SBM customers complaining after new banking system rolled in
Although I have not personally experienced any problems as a SBM Customer recently, several people are complaining about being unable to carry out transactions during the past few days or even weeks.
Logging off SBM’s IB and the french spiderman
This message literally made me ROFL!
SBM Smile Prepaid cards for your online purchases
Since a few weeks, SBM has a new card in its game. The SBM Smile Prepaid Card. And as per their say, you can carry out online transactions with it.
How my orange mobile got top-up’ed 4times…
Marked as sent failed, SMS were successfully sent and account recharged several times!