Orange and Airtel have agreed to collaborate to enable money transfers via mobile phones between Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso customers in West Africa
The deal is said to be significant as it will allow people in the two West African nations to transfer money for the first time using their mobile phones.
It is also the first time that Orange customers have been able to conduct international money transfers with people in a country outside the group’s footprint.
The offer, which came into effect recently, allows customers of Airtel Money in Burkina Faso to use their mobile phones to send money to customers of Orange Money in Côte d’Ivoire and vice versa.
Thierry Millet, Orange’s senior V-P of mobile financial services and NFC, said, “Following the successful launch of Orange Money International Transfer between Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire and Mali, we want to develop new ways to allow our customers to send and receive money between countries in the West African Economic and Monetary Union.
“We are very happy to launch this service between Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso, which meets one of the region’s biggest needs.”
