Leading telecommunications service provider, Airtel Nigeria,
has been honoured with the Payment Innovation in Telecom Award
by Africa’s leading transaction switching and processing services company,
Interswitch.
The Award, which held on Friday September 15th,
2017 at the Landmark Event Centre in Lagos, recognized leading financial
institutions, mobile financial players, processors and retailers, for their
innovative and transformative use of mobile financial solutions to solve
real-world customer and business issues.
In the citation by Interswitch, Airtel Nigeria has continued
to revolutionise telecommunications service as well as support smart payments
that create seamless experience for customers, adding that the telco has
demonstrated commitment in providing innovative, reliable, affordable and
convenient solutions to telecoms consumers across the country.
Airtel’s Regional Operations Director, Lagos, Olusina
Adegoke; Vice President, Mobile Financial Services, Veronica Onoja and Head of
Corporate Communications, Erhumu Bayagbon, received the award on behalf of the
company.
The award follows recent recognition of the telecom giant as
the ‘Most Outstanding Customer-Centric Telecoms Brand of the Year’ by Marketing
Edge and Service Excellence in Telecommunication Award at the 2017 Commerce
& Industry Awards organized by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry
(LCCI).
Interswitch Limited is a leading transaction switching and
processing Services Company, which is committed to providing the Nigerian
public with safe and dependable solutions for interactive commerce whereby
payments for services can be received via multiple channels.
Interswitch has initiated a change in the financial services
sector by enabling the conduction of safer, cheaper and faster transactions and
has quite a number of reputable banks on its network.
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