Tigo introduces wider services

MOBILE Money users from across all networks can now seamlessly send and receive money to any Tigo customer in the country through its secure and convenient Tigo Pesa Service.

This follows an announcement of a new campaign dubbed, NITIGOPESA, following a successful launch by Tigo Tanzania of interoperability with banks and other mobile operators in Tanzania. This educational campaign is set to help users of mobile money from all networks understand how they can conduct their transactions with any Tigo Pesa customer and merchants in Tanzania.

Speaking to the media during the just ended GSMA Conference in Dar es Salaam on Thursday, Tigo’s Head of Financial Services, Ruan Swanepoel, said with the introduction of interoperability consumers can now send money directly to other network accounts and bank accounts.

Previously customers would receive a text message and must get the money from a mobile vendor within seven days or the money reverts back to the sender. He noted that money flowing into TigoPesa from banks is now 45m/- US dollars a month, noting that it is a significant amount of money exchanged between banks and Tigo’s five million active users out of 12 million mobile money users shared among other mobile companies.

Swanepoel said Tigo is committed to creating a cashless society where any customer can enjoy flexible payment options and enjoy affordable and convenient services. He said the consumer-centered innovation speaks to financial inclusion as it helps draw more cash into the formal financial system and helps improve customers’ lives by simplifying transactions.

“From now onwards, other financial mobile money networks such as M-Pesa, Airtel Money and EasyPesa will be able to transact to Tigo Pesa through buying and paying from our widest network of Tigo Pesa merchants that are spread all over the country”, said Swanepoel.

He said that customers from across all networks can now pay for services or products at any of our widest network of merchant shops across the country that have the banner ‘Lipa hapa kwa Tigo Pesa’. Merchants from across any network can also pay and acquire their products from wholesalers.

SOURCE:DAILY NEWS