Unitel Money, the new mobile payments service, now available

UNITEL Serviços de Pagamentos Móveis, (SU), SA, a company 100% owned by the mobile operator UNITEL, SA, launched this Monday, 23 August, the new mobile and instant payments and transfers service through of telephone terminals, called UNITELMoney.

Unitel SA customers can send or receive, daily, from 25 to 300 thousand kwanzas per movement, in one thousand agents throughout the country, by joining the Unitel Money financial services platform.

The service is easy to operate, safe and stands out for its convenience, according to the operator's managers, who place Unitel Money in the financial inclusion plan of the National Bank of Angola and partners, in a strategy aimed at reducing the physical circulation of banknotes in the economy and associate the advantages of the digital age with access to banking.

O UNITELMoney is a digital wallet that allows you to deposit, store, transfer, buy UNITEL recharges or withdraw money via your mobile phone in a practical, easy and secure way.

According to the General Director of UNITEL, and administrator of the Mobile Payments Service (USPM), Engº. Miguel Geraldes, the intention is to reach 3 million users in the business, which will only be profitable as the number of customers increases. "Before that we don't have great profit prospects”, he said.

Opening and managing an account is free and done digitally. No bureaucracy and no paper. To open a UNITEL MONEY account the UNITEL customer can access the UNITEL Money Menu via * 449 # or by downloading the UNITEL Money app from the playstore or app store and open your UNITEL Money account for free.

With this, the Angolan telephone company intends to take advantage of the portfolio of around 11 million telephone terminal users so that, in four years, it can have at least five million Unitel Money users in its records.

The Engineer Miguel Geraldes said that several thousand dollars were invested in the realization of this project licensed by the BNA since October last year and in which he has been working in partnership with the Chinese multinational Huawey, as of December, to make a simple platform available. , effective and still safe.

As for the earnings, from an account that is free to open, manage and maintain, the responsible said that, for withdrawals, the customer will have to deduct 1,0 percent of the amount in favor of the operator (1 kwanza for the operator, each 100 kwanza deposited). Transferring between accounts is completely free.

Each customer can only have one account associated with their number. If you have multiple numbers, they are associated with a single identification document. Deposits and withdrawals in the portfolio UNITELMoney can be made at any UNITEL Money Store or Agent, in the network of branches throughout the country. Once the deposit has been made, the customer will be able to immediately and instantly send the amount to another customer for withdrawal at the agent where they usually are buy your UNITEL refills, thus avoiding long lines.

This Unitel service now operates in a market where the é-Kwanza solution, from Banco Angolano de Investimentos (BAI), the EMIS Express Service (with the difference that it is associated with a bank account) and the most recent was even more recent. presented the Akipay from Kwattel Serviços, which is still being tested.