Recognised as Nigeria’s most innovative 4G LTE broadband telecommunications service provider, Smile has gone one step more towards reaffirming that position with a collaboration with Interswitch Financial Inclusion Services Limited (IFIS)to make Smile ’s products and services easily accessible via Quickteller Paypoint agent locations spread across Nigeria.
This unique collaboration provides ease and flexibility of payment for everyone to have access to the SuperFast, quality, reliable and affordable internet and voice services from Smile, the network of choice.
According to its GM Sales & Distribution, Onamari Horsfall, Smile is happy to sign this collaboration to expand its retail footprint across Nigeria, which has a combination of making Smile’s products and services easily available and addressing customer’s travel time to purchase a device or airtime. He added that the collaboration offers thousands of Smile’s customers’ another means of making purchases.
The Divisional Chief Executive Officer of IFIS, Titilola Shogaolu, stated, “At Interswitch Financial Inclusion Service, we are not only committed to reducing the financial exclusion gap, we are continuously working to provide convenient services and this latest collaboration is just one of the many ways through which we are achieving this.”
Viewed critically, this latest collaboration with IFIS further underscores Smile’s unending quest to best serve its customers. Smile launched the first 4G LTE network in West Africa in Nigeria in 2014 revolutionizing the way people access the internet. Customers in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Ibadan, Benin City, Kaduna, Onitsha and Asaba can experience the country’s most reliable, SuperFast 4G LTE mobile broadband services, and also enjoy SuperClear voice calls, video calls and SMSs from their one SmileData bundle. Please visit smile.com.ng for more information
Smile was the first to launch VoLTE on its network and has continued with its innovation, having introduced SmileVoice, which is a free mobile app that enables customers with any Android or Apple handset (including those which are not VoLTE-enabled) to make SuperClear voice calls over Smile’s 4G LTE networks. Smile was also the first to introduce an Unlimited offering, which enables SuperFast and SuperReliable data and SuperClear voice, all from one data plan.
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On its part, Interswitch Financial Inclusion Services Limited (trading as Quickteller Paypoint) has been positioned by Interswitch Group to serve as the interconnect point and infrastructure for integrating and delivering financial, non-financial, retail and social services to the unbanked, under-banked and banked. IFIS collaborates with financial service providers, merchants, billers and other organizations that aim to increase their efficiency and outreach through our network of human service interfaces nationwide.
With over 18,000 Quickteller Paypoint agent locations across Nigeria, IFIS is well on course working assiduously to remove the barriers to financial inclusion whilst creating wealth for its paramount stakeholder- the agent.Using simple innovative technology,persons can pay their bill, transfer money, receive money, buy airtime recharge and open a bank account at our Quickteller Paypoint agent location nationwide.
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