Airtel Uganda launches Airtel Money

Airtel Uganda has unveiled its mobile money platform 'Airtel Money’ in the country.

The service provides customer with convenient access to affordable and innovative financial services through their mobile phones.It allows customers to top up their phones with air time, send and receive money, pay their critical utility bills, access their bank accounts and withdraw Airtel money across all interswitch ATMs country wide.

Airtel has partnered with international and regional banks to provide customers with access to deposit and withdraw cash, money transfers, banking services and pay bills.

The list of the partnered banks include- Standard chartered bank, Post Bank, Pride Micro Finance, Centenary Rural Development Bank, Equity Bank, Diamond Trust Bank, United Bank of Africa, Kenya Commercial Bank, Baroda, Eco Bank and Finance Trust Bank.

''Airtel Money's new platform will provide customers with a useful offering of products that cuts across Mobile banking including ATM transactions, utility bill payments, Airtime top ups and Money Transfer services,'' said VG Somasekhar, MD, Airtel Uganda.

''We congratulate Airtel and believe that through its Airtel money initiatives, customers and communities even in the deepest rural areas of Uganda will take maximum advantage and reap the benefits of mobile commerce and other innovative services from Airtel,'' said Nyombi Thembo , Minister of State for ICT, Uganda.

''We believe that the Airtel Money services will be a catalyst to support economic activities such as agriculture, mining, fishing and ultimately contribute to the economic growth of our country, especially within the rural sector,'' said Amama Mbabazi, Prime Minister of the Republic of Uganda.

Airtel Money will be available to all Airtel customers, both prepaid and post-paid. The registration is free at all Airtel centers and Airtel Money outlets countrywide.