Bharti Airtel has launched its mobile money platform, Airtel Money in Uganda. The service will provide its customers easy access to financial services through mobile phones.
The platform will allow customers to top up their handsets with airtime, send and receive money, pay utility bills, access their bank accounts and even withdraw Airtel money across all inter-switch ATMs countrywide.
Bharti Airtel has teamed up with international and regional banks to provide customers with access to deposit and withdraw cash, money transfers, banking services and pay bills. It has forged partnerships with Standard Chartered Bank, Post Bank, Pride Micro Finance, Centenary Rural Development Bank, Equity Bank, Diamond Trust Bank, United Bank of Africa, Kenya Commercial Bank, Baroda, Eco Bank and Finance Trust Bank to provide such services.
