<p>Bharti Airtel today said it has tied up with African telecom operators Tigo and Zantel for providing customers in Tanzania mobile money transfer service across networks.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The service is expected to begin this month, Bharti Airtel said in a statement.<br /><br />With this agreement, customers of the three firms will be able to send money by mobile to each other by either using Airtel Money, Tigo Pesa or EzyPesa.<br /><br />"This is the first agreement in Africa to adopt such interoperability whereby mobile network operators allow their customers to send and receive money across their networks and the e-money goes directly to the respective customer's e-wallet account," Airtel said.<br /><br />"This is a tremendous evolution towards ensuring the mobile commerce inclusion sought by many Tanzanians, especially taking into account Airtel's broad reach across the country," Airtel Tanzania Managing Director Sunil Colaso said.<br /><br />Airtel said in the early years of mobile industry, such agreements were common for both voice calls and SMS text messaging.<br /><br />"Just as we co-operate with our competitors on voice calls and text to help our customers, so we hope to be able to do the same with mobile money and help make Tanzania a global pioneer in digital financial inclusion," Tigo General Manager for Tanzania Diego Gutierrez said.<br /><br />Zantel Managing Director Pratap Ghose also said the company will work with the industry and the regulatory bodies to ensure that they offer 'best in class' service to its customers.</p>
<p>Bharti Airtel today said it has tied up with African telecom operators Tigo and Zantel for providing customers in Tanzania mobile money transfer service across networks.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The service is expected to begin this month, Bharti Airtel said in a statement.<br /><br />With this agreement, customers of the three firms will be able to send money by mobile to each other by either using Airtel Money, Tigo Pesa or EzyPesa.<br /><br />"This is the first agreement in Africa to adopt such interoperability whereby mobile network operators allow their customers to send and receive money across their networks and the e-money goes directly to the respective customer's e-wallet account," Airtel said.<br /><br />"This is a tremendous evolution towards ensuring the mobile commerce inclusion sought by many Tanzanians, especially taking into account Airtel's broad reach across the country," Airtel Tanzania Managing Director Sunil Colaso said.<br /><br />Airtel said in the early years of mobile industry, such agreements were common for both voice calls and SMS text messaging.<br /><br />"Just as we co-operate with our competitors on voice calls and text to help our customers, so we hope to be able to do the same with mobile money and help make Tanzania a global pioneer in digital financial inclusion," Tigo General Manager for Tanzania Diego Gutierrez said.<br /><br />Zantel Managing Director Pratap Ghose also said the company will work with the industry and the regulatory bodies to ensure that they offer 'best in class' service to its customers.</p>