Orange Money: Orange and Total have signed a partnership.
Despite enormous difficulties of adoption encountered
by Orange Money in Africa, Orange Group believes in this solution to help improve
the mobile payments in Africa and Middle-East.
Its new partnership with TOTAL is part
of its strategy to face
compete from MTN Money and make more accessible its service.
compete from MTN Money and make more accessible its service.
Officially announced today, this partnership gives Orange customers access to
Orange Money services at all TOTAL service stations in African and
Middle-Eastern countries.
Connectikpeople may recall that, Orange Money is Orange’s payment and money
transfer service for Africa and the Middle-East. It enables Orange customers to
transfer money from mobile to mobile, to pay bills and even withdraw and
deposit money through a network of certified distributors.
According to Orange, ‘’Customers will benefit from the density of the TOTAL
distribution network, its service stations open for extended hours seven days a
week; they will be able to open an Orange Money account on site and perform
withdrawals and deposits’’.
In addition Connectikpeople has observed that, the project is already
operational in Senegal and Cameroon, and will go live in over 1300 service
stations in the 11 other countries where both groups are present in the second
half of 2013.
Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with
sales of 43.5 billion euros in 2012 and has 170,000 employees worldwide at 31
March 2013, including 104,000 employees in France. Present in 32 countries, the
Group has a total customer base of close to 230 million customers at 31 March
2013, including 172 million mobile customers and 15 million broadband internet
(ADSL, fibre) customers worldwide. Orange is also a leading provider of global
IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies, under the brand
Orange Business Services.
Orange is listed on the NYSE Euronext Paris (symbol ORA) and on the New
York Stock Exchange (symbol ORAN)..
Orange operates in twenty countries in Africa and the Middle-East. The
Orange Money service, which was specifically designed to meet the needs of
customers in the region, was first launched in 2008. It is now available in 13
countries (Botswana, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Jordan, Kenya,
Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Niger, Senegal and Uganda) and has more
than 7 million customers.
Total is at the forefront of international oil and gas groups, with
activities in more than 130 countries. The Group is also a leading player in
chemicals. Its 97,000 employees deploy their expertise at all levels in these
industries: oil and natural gas exploration and production, refining and
distribution, gas and renewable energy, trading and chemicals. In Africa and
the Middle-East, Total is active across the whole petroleum product supply
chain (service station network, general retail, lubricants, aviation fuels,
bitumen, LPG) in 51 countries, where the Group is a sector leader with an
estimated 13% market share. Around 1.7 million customers are served every day
at one of TOTAL's 4400 service stations in the
region.
