GT&T introduces Shop’n Go service

Eshwar Thakurdin, Managing Director of GT&T’s Mobile Money Guyana Inc, demonstrates the new Shop’n Go service for GT&T CEO RK Sharma (left) and Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh. (Photo by Arian Browne)

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) has launched its new Shop’n Go feature, which allows subscribers to use their mobile phones to make wireless payments.

Eshwar Thakurdin, Managing Director of GT&T’s Mobile Money Guyana initiative, said at the launch at Herdmanston Lodge yesterday that 70 merchants had already signed up with the service. He said the initiative was to facilitate customers with an ease of financial payments.

“When someone else is fumbling with cash… you just pull out your phone and say, ‘I’ll just Shop’n Go,