State Bank Freedom- the mobile banking service of SBI is now available on both non- Java as well as non- GPRS phones.
Till date, the service was restricted just to Java-enabled mobiles over SMS/GPRS/WAP and non-Java phones having GPRS connections.
The mobile banking service of the bank was introduced in March 2009. It started as a pilot study in all the bank branches which gave the retail customers a chance to enjoy ‘secured Anytime Anywhere Banking experience’.
Services such as funds transfer, seeing the account balance, and mini-statements of the clients’ accounts, bill payment, cheque book request, prepaid mobile recharge, viewing demat account details, top-up of Tata Sky/other DTH services, and execution of m-commerce transactions are offered by SBI’s mobile banking.
The service is open for all modes viz application based, via Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), and USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data).