Oberthur Technologies has successfully completed the deployment of its M-Commerce security solution for Zain’s (News - Alert) 15 sub Saharan African operations.

 

Zain’s Mobile Commerce solution, Zap, is a SIM security application and security gateway that helps Zain’s customers use their mobile phone to pay bills and purchase goods and services securely.

 

Right now, the service enables Zain’s customers in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to receive and send money to friends and family as well as to receive money from any bank account and send money to other bank accounts around the world through their mobile phones. Customers are also able to top up their own, or someone else’s, airtime account and manage their bank accounts. More than 100 million people in East Africa now benefit from Zap. The service will be rolled out soon in all of Zain’s operations across the Middle East and Africa.

 

According to Dr. Saad Al Barrak, CEO of Zain, the combination of services Zain provides through Zap mobile commerce is exciting for any market. However, when set in an African context, the implications are profound given the critical economic needs of Africans living the countries in which Zain operates. In this sense, what Zain delivers genuinely helps to improve lives.

 

According to George Held, Marketing Director of Products and Innovation at Zain Group (News - Alert), Oberthur Technologies was selected as Zain’s security solutions partner because of its proven leadership in mobile smart card and security solutions and its global support for Zain’s offer. A leading telecommunications operator across the Middle East and Africa, Zain provides mobile voice and data services to 69.5 million active customers at present.

 

Oberthur Technologies provides security and identification based on smart card technology and associated services for mobile, payment, transport, digital TV and convergence markets. The Card Systems Division of Oberthur Technologies is specialized in security based on smart card technology and associated services. The clients of Oberthur Technologies are spread around the world and include mobile operators, financial institutions, transport operators and conditional access system providers. The products and services developed by Oberthur Technologies address the changing needs of the payment, mobile, transport, convergence and digital TV market segments.

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