Emma Okonji
GTS-Infotel, one of the leading licensed value added service (VAS) providers in the country, has unveiled its disruptive ‘GTS Network’ called Mobinawa Mobile App at the recently concluded Nigeria Com, which held in Lagos.
During the launch, the Chief Executive Officer, GTS-Infotel, Dr. Ing Pierre-François Kamanou introduced the GTS Network as a new digital mobile communications network, enabling conversational and transactional VAS services offered by businesses using single dedicated GTS numbers.
The GTS numbers are long VAS numbers part of the national numbering plan in the prefix of 0700, allocated by the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) to GTS-Infotel.
“With the unveiling of the GTS Network with Mobinawa App, GTS Infotel has reaffirmed its position as the foremost VAS Operator in Nigeria,†Kamanou said.
He explained the importance of GTS number to the modern day business, saying that the new GTS number is the ID for the digital business to communicate in the digital space.
“With the GTS network, many organisations which have not digitised their communications by using multiple mobile and fixed numbers for voice conversational services and short codes for SMS/USSD transactional services, can now use a single GTS number for all their digital communications services, in terms of internal and external communications, multichannel customer services and mobile marketing,†he said.
Unlike other over the top (OTT) applications, Mobinawa is designed to serve as a directory of automatic call attendant and voice/SMS contact center services of local businesses in the GTS Network.
“With this mobile app which can be downloaded on Google play store and Apple store free of charge, it will avail many organisations the opportunity to be found in the online directory with their profiles, thereby boosting their visibility. The application runs on the internet and calls can be received and made free of charge in any part of the world without roaming charged accrued,” Kamanou added.
