Saicom signs partnership with EASI to enter Zim market

This paves the way towards the launching of a new brand of both prepaid and post paid electronic services, such as airtime, electricity, DSTV and insurance in Zimbabwe.

EASI, headed up by Phil Rusch, aims to provide the Zimbabwean public a convenient, turnkey solution to their prepaid electronic vending and account payment requirements, through the use of Saicom's proprietary management platform and hardware. "We are excited to be able to switch into large corporate vendors, such as supermarket chains directly and value adding all of our content. We also wish to provide a solution for change at shop level, whereby we intend to sell vouchers using pin-less recharge in denominations as low as US 1 cent," said Rusch.

Cost-effective access to prepaid services

With 15 years experience within the telecommunications sector, Saicom has gained an in-depth understanding of the requirements of these markets. Through the deployment of its proprietary Content Ready platform, together with POS terminals, PC and Mobi applications, it is able to provide appropriate and cost-effective access to prepaid services and account management and payment.

"The agreement with EASI in Zimbabwe marks our entrance into our seventh African country with our Kazang Electronic Vending Solution. It's essential that we have the right operating partner in each country and after months of search and negotiations we are confident that Phil and his team will be successful in this important market for us," said CEO of Saicom, Martin Wright. "Our ability to offer more than just prepaid airtime but also services such as prepaid electricity vending, DSTV payments as well as money transfer and a variety of custom bill payment solutions have allowed us to expand rapidly into Zambia, Kenya, Ghana, Morocco, Nigeria, Mozambique and Tanzania. We are also on track to open Angola and possibly Botswana in the first quarter of this year."