Zanzibar citizens set to benefit from Zantel’s new innovation

 

Zanzibar citizens can now buy TUKUZA electricity through their mobile phone’s EzyPesa service, thanks to a recently inaugurated technological innovation.

This new service is a result of collaboration between Zantel and Zanzibar Electric Company Limited (ZECO).

“We are happy that this new service will give ZECO and Zantel customers at large additional convenience to buy electricity using their EzyPesa accounts on their mobile phones, from anywhere and anytime, thereby saving time spent in queues” CEO of Zantel, Mr. Pratap Ghose said during the inauguration event held in Unguja recently.   Also Zantel customers will be able to buy and get other services apart from electricity through EzyPesa. Zantel is working towards offering a bouquet of essential services to its customers at large.

“These service will easily be accessed for Zantel customers who have subscribed with EzyPesa,” the Zantel boss told journalists. Mr. Ghose said EzyPesa service reflects Zantel’s business objective that seek to make the company a leader in offering such services in Zanzibar.  He noted Zantel and ZECO, as Zanzibar based companies are responsible to make sure that people in the Isles not only access best services but get social and economic opportunities.