Mobile fintech platform services provider, JUMO today announced a new partnership with Absa Bank Tanzania and Tanzanian telecom firm Tigo to increase the availability of the existing short-term credit product Tigo Nivushe in the country. The new tripartite agreement reached…
Tigo Tanzania has partnered with M-Pesa in Kenya, MTN in Rwanda & Uganda and Airtel Rwanda to enable cross-platform capabilities between the respective mobile wallet services – this move should allow customers to send and receive funds from across East…
Telepin, a mobile transaction platforms, announced that their customer Tigo Tanzania received the GSMA Mobile Money Certification built on the Telepin mobile money platform. The GSMA Mobile Money Certification defines and promotes excellence in the provision of mobile money services.…
On the 14th of July, the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) fined six telecom operators for violating subscriber registration rules. Violations include operators registering SIM cards with unauthorised identity cards and registering SIM cards without taking photos of subscribers as well…
Tigo Tanzania has announced plans to further expand their network. The mobile operator has made an investment of $70 million, over Sh150 billion in 2017. Last year the operator invested $75 million adding new 535 sites with 3G technology and…
Tigo Tanzania has announced the opening of a call centre in Tanzania this week. A first of its kind in the country, the call centre is equipped with the latest technology and complete with embedded data security measures to protect…
Tigo Tanzania has entered into a partnership with the Ministry of Communications, Works and Infrastructure to facilitate the roll-out of internet access points in the country’s secondary schools so as to complement the e-Schools Project for a period of 2…
Tigo Tanzania has announced another quarterly payment of USD $ 2.1million (Tshs 4.4 bilion) to its 4.6 million Tigo Pesa users, the seventh time in a row that the company is distributing profit to its mobile financial services users. Speaking at…
Staying connected with friends and family is getting one step easier in Tanzania after the country’s leading telecom operator announced that it had partnered with the social networking company to give its users free access to Facebook. Tigo Tanzania made…
Millions of M-Pesa and Tigo Pesa customers in Tanzania will soon be able to send and receive money directly into each other wallets. This follows the recent signing of a mobile money interoperability agreement between Tigo and Vodacom. The agreement…