Category Archives: West Africa

TXT N Pay Service Launched by Ghana Post

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The Ghana Post (GP), in collaboration with the Afric-Xpress, yesterday, launched the (Text and pay) TXT N Pay service in Accra. The express service is an electronic pay point for products and services including DSTV bills, Vodafone land line, broadband and the sale of air-time top up. In an address to launch the product, the

Airtel Ghana Colloborates With Rancard To Launch Airtel Money Market-An Online Store For The Market

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Airtel Ghana has added further value to its mobile commerce product, Airtel Money, by launching the Airtel Money Market (www.airtelmoneymarket.com), an online portal aimed at providing additional channels for Airtel Money customers and merchants. The Airtel Money Market runs on Rancard’s Rendezvous Technology product which allows Ghanaians to use social interactions and contributions from trusted

Ghana: MTN, UT Launch ‘Mi-Life Mobile Insurance

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ERNEST BEST ANANE The Chronicle MTN, the largest telecom network in Ghana, in collaboration with the UT Bank, has launched Mi-Life Insurance in Kumasi. Mr. James Bukari, Commercial Manager of Sales, explained at the launch that MTN had realised several products like vehicle traffic devices, Mobile money and others to help their customers not to

Ghana: MTN MOBILEMONEY EXPANDS: SERVICES TO COVER PAYMENT OF DOMESTIC AIRLINE TICKETS

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MTN Mobile Money subscribers who use Starbow can now purchase their air tickets through MTN Mobile Money. This service was unveiled during an interaction between MTN Ghana officials and editors in the Volta Region. The forum was organised to brief journalists on new trends in telecommunications, the drive towards convergence, MTN’s CSR initiatives, as well

‘Airtel Money’ picks Best Mobile Money Award

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Airtel Ghana’s rebranding of Zain’s Zap Mobile Money to ‘Airtel Money’, with the added features of mobile commerce services, paid off at the Second Mobileworld Ghana Telecom Award by coming up tops in the Best Mobile Money category. Airtel forfeited three awards from last year, CEO of the Year, and Customer Service of the Year,

GTBank introduces Mobile Savings Account

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To further expand its range of convenient banking services, Guaranty Trust Bank (Ghana) Limited has teamed up with Airtel Ghana Limited to introduce a mobile savings account. Named as the GTMobile Savings Account, this service offers new or existing GTBank and Airtel customers the opportunity of transacting some normal banking operations through their mobile phones

Vodafone Ghana to launch Mobile Money this year

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Samuel Nii Narku Dowuona Myjoyonline Ghana The Award-Winning Vodafone Ghana Boss, Kyle Whitehill has disclosed that the company would launch a Mobile Money service this year. Kyle Whitehill made the disclosure in an interview with journalists after he won the Telecom CEO of the Year at the Second MobileWorld Ghana Telecom Awards, held at the

Africa — the next frontier for virtual currency?

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Los Angeles Times. If you’ve heard of Bitcoin, you might be a computer geek. The virtual money aspires to become a universal currency that doesn’t depend on governments or banks. Cutting out the banks results in cheaper transactions, Bitcoin backers say. Online payments pass from person to person without using a bank as the middleman.

UT Bank, Airtel collaborate to launch Fonbank

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UT Bank in partnership with Airtel Ghana is to launch a new and unique savings account product known as the UT FONBank. The product allows subscribers of Airtel services to transact banking business on the mobile platform. It serves as a normal traditional bank account giving the client the opportunity and convenience to do banking

Gambia: GAWFA’s Mobile Banking Project Approved

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MOMODOU FAAL The Daily Observer Alfredo Gadea of the Spanish Cooperation Agency in The Gambia, has disclosed that the Spanish government has approved the Mobile Banking project for The Gambia Women’s Finance Association (GAWFA). This development, he said, has now given GAWFA the green light to be closely working with a private Spanish company called