Vodafone customers are able to Android apps via phone bill

Vodafone customers with Android phones offer the possibility of purchased apps via the phone bill to pay. The service will be first rolled out for Uk customers that their unit at Vodafone have bought.

It is not certain whether the so-called carrier billing for uk customers is available. Vodafone has announced that Android users in the United Kingdom as the first access to the service, after which German customers will follow. About other countries is nothing published.

For through the telephone bill paying applications get Vodafone customers with a special button in the aankoopscherm. It also remains possible to applications in the Android Market through Google’s payment methods to.

Vodafone is not the first that the via the phone bill checkout of apps. Several providers, including the American AT&T, offer more carrier billing. But Vodafone is the first provider in Europe for Android. Google had already know that the sales of software in the Android Market with carrier billing would like to encourage.