Tingg by Cellulant transforms billing, collections - ITREALMS

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The Tingg by Cellulant's digital payments platform, is challenging Zambia's traditional bill payment method, just as Tingg, individuals and businesses could quickly and easily pay their water and power bills on an app or via USSD.

Pay-as-you-go mobile utility bill payments have been used in the energy, water, and sanitation sectors due to mobile money ecosystems' expansion and global complexity. Utility service providers and end users gain from mobile utility bill payments because they increase payment transparency, reduce leakage, lower operating costs, and open up opportunities for financial inclusion. Additionally, they support mobile operators by increasing the adoption of mobile money frequency, average transaction value, and transaction frequency.

CBN renews Cellulant’s license as payment provider - ITREALMS

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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has renewed the license of Cellulant as a payment service provider in the country, reports ITREALMS.

This license, ITREALMS gathered affords Cellulant to continuously provide online and offline payment solutions, including collections, check-out, biller aggregation, and payout services securely to thousands of businesses across Nigeria.

Cellulant, Mastercard partner for African consumers - ITREALMS

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The duo of Cellulant and Mastercard have partnered to allow millions of Cellulant customers across Africa to shop and pay online with global merchants wherever Mastercard is accepted, reports ITREALMS.

The Mastercard virtual payment solution, linked to Cellulant’s payment gateway - Tingg, can unlock a host of opportunities for consumers, whether they have a bank account or not. Consumers will be able to shop from well-known global digital commerce brands, paying quickly and securely for leisure shopping, travel, accommodation, entertainment, streaming services and more, while in their home countries or travelling abroad.

Cellulant drives FG’s electronic agricultural input scheme

Mobile commerce service operator, Cellulant Nigeria Limited, has concluded plans to oversee the Federal Government’s electronic-based agricultural input programme tagged Growth Enhancement Support Scheme (GES).

ITRealms Online learnt that under the scheme, Cellulant would design, develop and operate the technology platform that will provide electronic-mobile registration, validation and also develop a value chain system; an electronic wallet (e-wallet) that will support the distribution of farm inputs directly to farmers.

Cellulant Nigeria Limited is part of the Cellulant Corporation, a business founded by Nigerians and Kenyans with operations across a number of African countries including Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Botswana.

Executive Director, Special Projects, Cellullant Corporation Limited, Mr. Bolaji Akinboro, explained that the firm’s involvement in the Nigerian government’s subsidized fertilizer access scheme is to deploy its expertise in value chain development, digital content creation, delivery and management over mobile telecommunication network.

He noted that as a leading mobile commerce network operator in Africa that manages, delivers and bills for digital content and mobile payment networks, Cellulant understands the requirements and challenges of mobile commerce business.

“Over the years, we have worked with several Nigerian telecommunication companies, banks and various other organizations to deliver and manage digital content and it is the same expertise and experience that the Nigerian government will leverage to operate the Growth Enhancement Support Scheme,” he said.

The GES scheme, he explained is aimed at delivering subsidized fertilizer to farmers; empower them to increase their yield and encourage a shift from subsistence to commercial farming based on an electronic registration and validation process.

Under the GES Scheme, an accredited farmer will receive fertiliser allocation through a Personal Identification Number, PIN (a voucher number for all farm inputs comprising fertilizer and seeds- available through the GES program) sent to his or her phone. The recipient then redeems the voucher for farm inputs at subsidized rates after paying the top-up to specially appointed agro-dealer.

The government contracted Cellulant to help build an efficient distribution channel to deliver fertilizer to farmers. During the field trials of the GES technology in 12 states; the redemption rates for farm inputs by farmers was very significant.  This has now made it possible for Government to affect the lives of the individual Nigerian Farmer directly.

Akinboro further said the firm’s business falls within the Value Added Services or Wireless Application Service provider segment of the telecommunication industry and also as an ecosystem provider in the mobile commerce segment of the banking industry.

“Cellulant is a Nigerian company that has been duly registered and operating in the country for over eight years with vast experience in the valued added services segment in the telecommunications sector,” he said. 

Remmy Nweke

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