Ethio telecom and Hybrid Designs PLC sign agreements to enable customer’s access to telecom products and services through Ride transport service.
The agreement is said to integrate telecom and telebirr services with the RIDE transport service to meet the ever growing demand of the customers on telecom products and services accessibility and optional payment platforms, thereby providing fast and secure alternative services to customers.
In line with the agreement, in addition to getting settled transport service charges via telebirr, Ride transport serving drivers will serve as telebirr agents and will engage in collecting monthly ethio telecom and utility bill payments, registering new telebirr customers, upgrading telebirr customer levels, providing cash in and cash out services, airtime, packages and new SIM cards sales, providing SIM replacement services to customers along with providing many other package delivery services to customers on behalf of Ethio telecom.
Telebirr has now 19.4 million subscribers, more than 82 master agents, over 69 thousand agents and more than 18 thousand merchants within a short span of time. In addition, the platform has been integrated with 12 banks to transfer money from bank to telebirr and with 10 banks to transfer money from telebirr to bank, with over 18.7 billion-birr transactions made so far.