Boku, a London-based mobile payments platform that allows customers to make payments via their mobile phones, has inked deals in France and Korea. The French deal will reach nearly all 55 million mobile customers in the country. According to mocoNews:

“In France, it’s inked a deal with the French Association of Mobile Multimedia (AFMM) and the three big French mobile operators that lead it, Bouygues Telecom, Orange France and SFR. The AFMM, founded in 2005, counts as members several smaller mobile operators in the country such as Auchan Telecom, Debitel, NRJ Mobile, Omer Telecom, as well as publishers and other service providers, so this agreement will essentially cover almost all of France’s 55 million mobile users. In Korea, Boku has signed a deal with Mobilians, which works with various content providers to enable mobile payments on their sites, to be enable a service for people to use their mobile telephone numbers to make the payments.”

via mocoNews.