FMNA is a telecommunications company in which LonZim has a 51-per cent stake. As a result of its growth, it signed its fourth and fifth agreements with telecommunications providers in Africa, Nigeria’s Glo Mobile and Kenyas Yu respectively.
The two latest launches extend FMNA’s footprint across east, west and southern Africa following previous deployments with Econet Telecom Lesotho and Kenya’s Safaricom, with several more deployments planned and a contract signed in Zimbabwe. The four current deployments give mobile email and online chat access to more than 42 million mobile phone subscribers, bridging the rural-urban digital divide.Jeremy George, Chief Operating Officer of FMNA, welcomed the partnership with the mobile network providers.
While internet access across Africa remains very low, mobile phones are the only way for the vast majority of Africans to ever access the Internet. As the mobile telecoms market in countries with limited internet access continues to grow, FMNA provides people across Africa with low-cost, pay-as-you-go and easy-to-use two-way mobile email and online chat, he told The Zimbabwean from London.
David Lenigas, Executive Chairman of LonZim, said the company was extremely pleased with the progress FMNA was making.These two new partnerships make it five contracts for the use of FMNA’s unique telecoms solution in four African nations in the last year.
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