One of the top licensed Value Added Service (VAS) providers in Nigeria, GTS-Infotel, has launched its new “GTS Network” mobile app called “Mobinawa”.
Speaking at the just-concluded NigeriaCom event held at Oriental Hotels in Lekki, Lagos, the Founder/CEO of GTS-Infotel, Dr. Pierre-François Kamanou, said the GTS Network is a new digital mobile communications network, which enables conversational and transactional VAS services offered by businesses using single dedicated GTS number to consumers via its mobile app, “Mobinawa”.
He said the GTS numbers are long VAS numbers, which were part of the national numbering plan in the prefix of 0700, allocated by the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) to GTS-Infotel.
With the launch of the GTS Network via the Mobinawa app, GTS Infotel becomes the first Mobile VAS network operator dedicated to businesses (B2B-MVNO) in Nigeria.
While explaining the importance of GTS numbers to modern-day businesses, the GTS-Infotel boss said “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, would 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”, Dr. Kamanou said.
He added that unlike other Over-The-Top (OTT) applications, Mobinawa is designed to serve as a directory of automatic call attendant and Voice/SMS Contact centre services of local businesses in the GTS Network.
He said: “With this mobile app which can be freely downloaded on Google Play store and Apple store, it would 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,” he explained.
