Airtel, the Smartphone Network and expressPay, Ghana’s leading innovative electronic payments platform have announced a partnership that enables Airtel customers to directly purchase data bundles through the expressPay app. The solution offers Airtel customers a seamless way to purchase data bundles anywhere, anytime through expressPay’s app or website using their Airtel Money wallets, Visa, MasterCard … Read more
Indian telecom giant Bharti Airtel will buy the local operations of Norway’s Telenor, it said Thursday, as the ultra-competitive mobile market is shaken up by the country’s richest man. Tycoon Mukesh Ambani launched Reliance Jio’s 4G network in September with an audacious free service for the rest of 2016, followed by vastly cheaper data plans … Read more
Bharti Airtel, the mother company of Airtel Ghana, has announced that it will be closing shop 15 African countries by the end of 2017. BloombergQuint, the India-focused subsidiary of Bloomberg, quotes Bharti Airtel Chairman, Sunil Bharti Mittal, as saying “the moves would pare the size of operations on the continent and could be completed within … Read more
Bharti Airtel, the mother company of Airtel Ghana, has announced that it will be exiting 14 African countries including Ghana within a year. The affected countries include Ghana, Nigeria, Congo, Chad, Gabon, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Rwanda, Seychelles, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. BloombergQuint quotes Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal as saying “the move would … Read more
Airtel Ghana, the Smartphone Network has introduced the ‘Connected Classroom’ project to encourage collaborative learning in schools with active STEM Clubs under its Evolve with STEM initiative. Powered by the company’s superior data services, ‘STEM Clubbers’ from three schools – the La Wireless, Abossey Okai and Mataheko Roman Catholic Schools were connected via Skype to … Read more
Airtel Ghana, the Smartphone Network is teaming up with Roverman Productions to delight customers and theatre fans this festive period with 5 amazing plays at the Roverman Productions’ Festival of Plays. The much anticipated annual event offers theatre lovers a collection of plays over a 5 day period attracting thousands to the National Theatre every … Read more
Employees of Airtel Ghana, the Global Carrier Award winner for Best CSR Initiatives, have showered over 1,400 pupils of the La Wireless Cluster of Schools in Accra with gift items leading up to the Christmas festivities. They donated “Samaritan Boxes” comprising gifts, toys, clothing, stationery and shoes to pupils from the nine basic schools that … Read more
Airtel Ghana’s transformational CSR programme has been globally adjudged ‘Best Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative’ at the 2016 Global Carrier Awards held in Paris, France on Tuesday 08 November, making the Changemaker Company one of three African operators to be recognised at the prestigious Awards. The Global Carrier Awards, now in its 12th year, recognises Telecom … Read more
Airtel Ghana’s CEO Lucy Quist has encouraged pupils of La Wireless Cluster of Schools, who have signed up to learn coding and programming to use the knowledge and skills garnered to solve challenges in their communities. She said this at the launch of a coding club for the school under the company’s Evolve with STEM … Read more
Airtel Ghana’s transformational CSR programme has been globally adjudged ‘Best Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative’ at the 2016 Global Carrier Awards held in Paris, France on Tuesday, November 8, 2016 making the Changemaker Company one of three African operators to be recognised at the prestigious Awards. The Global Carrier Awards, now in its 12th year, recognises … Read more
CEOs of the major telecom networks and tower companies in Ghana stormed the Kaneshie Market in Accra Thursday to commemorate five years of the Chamber of Telecommunications. The CEOs include MTN Ghana boss, Ebenezer Asante, Tigo Ghana boss, Roshi Motman and Vodafone Ghana CEO, Yolanda Cuba, together with CEO of the Chamber, Kwaku Sakyi-Addo. Airtel … Read more
Pupils of La Wireless Cluster of Schools, in the La Dadekotopon Municipality, who have signed up to learn coding and programming, have been asked to use the knowledge and skills garnered to solve challenges in their communities. Mrs Lucy Quist, the Chief Executive Officer, Airtel Ghana, said this at the launch of a coding club … Read more
Airtel Ghana’s CEO Lucy Quist has encouraged pupils of La Wireless Cluster of Schools, who have signed up to learn coding and programming to use the knowledge and skills garnered to solve challenges in their communities. She said this at the launch of a coding club for the school under the company’s Evolve with STEM … Read more
Beginning from today Sunday, September 11, 2016, all mobile money wallet holders on the various telecoms networks in the country will start earning interest on the balance in their wallets from the first half of the year. The first tranche, to be paid today, is for quarter one, between January and March, and the second … Read more