Ethio telecom and Hybrid Designs have signed a contractual agreement that would enable the customers access to telecom products and services through Ride transport service at their convenient time and place using the newly emerging telebirr digital payment system.
The partnership contractual agreement signed between the two companies is mainly aimed at integrating telecom and telebirr services with the RIDE transport service platform so as to meet the ever growing demand of the customers on telecom products and services accessibility and optional payment platforms, thereby providing fast and secure alternative services to customers.
Having launched telegebeya online sales channel in the recent past which is a new and an alternative sales platform that enables customers to purchase Ethio telecom’s products easily from their whereabouts coupled with the company’s existing 509 point of sales and 185 franchise shops together with over 40,000 Ride transport serving drivers who will be in charge of delivering and selling our company’s products and services will enormously widen our presence and accessibility to millions of customers out there.
In line with the agreement, in addition to getting settled transport service fares via telebirr, Ride transport serving drivers as telebirr agents will engage in collecting monthly ethio telecom and utility bill payments, registering new telebirr customers, upgrading telebirr customer levels, providing cash in and cash out services, airtime, packages and new SIM cards sales, providing SIM replacement services to customers along with providing many other package delivery services to customers on behalf of Ethio telecom.
telebirr payment platform was launched exactly a year ago in this month and it has been very successful mainly because of its simplicity of use. The platform has been playing paramount roles since the very first day it came to be operational in easing our societies’ ways of lives in particular and the digital financial inclusions in general
