{"id":40761,"date":"2025-09-03T11:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40761\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T11:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:52:07","slug":"walmart-backed-onepay-adds-wireless-plans-to-everything-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40761\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart-backed OnePay adds wireless plans to everything app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart-backed OnePay offers credit and debit cards, high-yield savings accounts, buy now, pay later loans and a digital wallet with peer-to-peer payments.<\/p>\n<p>Photo downloaded from OnePay website<\/p>\n<p>OnePay, the fintech firm majority owned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/WMT\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Walmart<\/a>, is launching its own branded wireless plan as it seeks to become a one-stop shop for its users, CNBC has learned.<\/p>\n<p>OnePay Wireless will be available starting Wednesday in the OnePay app, according to Gigs, the mobile services startup that partnered with the company.<\/p>\n<p>The plan costs $35 a month for unlimited 5G data, talk and text on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/T\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AT&amp;T<\/a> network, Gigs said. The plans are activated in-app with a few clicks and don&#8217;t require credit checks or activation fees, the startup said.<\/p>\n<p>OnePay, created by Walmart in 2021 alongside venture firm Ribbit Capital,\u00a0has methodically built out its offerings in a bid to become an American super app akin to overseas offerings like WeChat or Alipay. OnePay services include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/06\/09\/walmart-onepay-synchrony-credit-cards-capital-one.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">credit<\/a> and debit cards, high-yield savings accounts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/03\/17\/walmart-klarna-nearing-ipo-wins-fintech-partnership-from-affirm.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">buy now, pay later<\/a> loans and a digital wallet with peer-to-peer payments.<\/p>\n<p>The OnePay-Gigs partnership is the latest example of a fintech firm adding wireless connectivity to its product set; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.klarna.com\/international\/press\/tap-to-switch-klarna-expands-into-mobile-phone-plans-with-flexible-no-hassle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Klarna<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qorusglobal.com\/content\/29035-nubank-launches-a-new-mobile-phone-service-for-brazils-digital-first-consumers#:~:text=Flexible%20and%20affordable%20data%20plans,added%20value%20for%20Nubank%20customers.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nubank<\/a> have made similar announcements. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gigs CEO Hermann Frank said that embedding wireless plans into fintech services can lower AT&amp;T&#8217;s customer acquisition costs \u2014 savings which can be shared with end users.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The average consumer largely overpays for their phone bill,&#8221; Frank said. &#8220;We can now offer a product at a price point that is about half what the typical consumer pays right now, with all the modern features that you require.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OnePay confirmed the launch and declined to comment further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walmart-backed OnePay offers credit and debit cards, high-yield savings accounts, buy now, pay later loans and a digital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[13667,10005,12491,3055,491,207,18,18421,19,204,17,279,12492,82,256,480],"class_list":{"0":"post-40761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-att-inc","9":"tag-banks","10":"tag-breaking-news-business","11":"tag-breaking-news-investing","12":"tag-breaking-news-markets","13":"tag-business-news","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-fintech","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-investment-strategy","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-mobile","20":"tag-retail-industry","21":"tag-technology","22":"tag-venture-capital","23":"tag-walmart-inc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}