The Central Company for e-Payment Services (eJaby), in cooperation with Fastlink, has launched a wide scale orientation campaign to introduce the public to the electronic bill payment service offered by eJaby.
EJaby Marketing and Business Development Director, Nizar Zahran, said the campaign, conducted at the various Fastlink centers, aims to introduce Fastlink customers to the advantages of using eJaby. Users of the new service can inquire about their bills and pay their dues directly and securely from over 400 e-payment centers available at various banks and currency exchange outlets across the Kingdom.
Fastlink Marketing/ postpaid Manager, Maher Hariri, said the service, a new addition to the Company’s efforts aimed at offering the best products to customers, provides total ease of inquiry and payment of bills to users, who have reached today more than 1.4 million.
Hariri added that Fastlink has been considering ways to facilitate payment of bills for customers, availing them today with more than one option to cover their bills: bank transfers, credit card, express mail, ATM or bank tellers and Visa, in addition to eJaby.
He pointed that eJaby is a timely addition to other payment methods, especially now that the telecommunications market is witnessing major developments. He added that the new service also harmonizes with changes in consumers’ behavior all over the world, including Jordan, when people have become more and more dependant on e-payment.
About Fastlink
Jordan Mobile Telephone Services Company Ltd. “Fastlink”, founded in 1995, was the first operator to introduce mobile phone services into Jordan. In just a few years, the company earned its reputation as the most progressive telecom operator in the region in terms of competitiveness and readiness to adopt new technologies and deploy cutting-edge services. Since its inception, Fastlink has tallied subscriber growth at an exponential rate, with the number of users currently exceeding 1,400 million subscribers. Through more than 1,700 cell sites, Fastlink covers the entire populated area of the Kingdom. In January 2003, Mobile Telecommunications Company K.S.C. (MTC) acquired Fastlink in what was considered the largest single acquisition in the Middle East area, and the largest private sector investment in Jordan.
MTC Group
Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) was founded in 1983 and today is one of the largest mobile operators in the Middle East and Africa, with more than 9.5 million customers in Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and 13 countries in Africa. MTC is listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange.
In September 2002, MTC entered into a Partner Network Agreement with Vodafone, the world’s leading mobile community, in Kuwait creating MTC Vodafone Kuwait. In 2003 MTC continued its expansion with the acquisition of 96.4% of Fastlink in Jordan.
MTC’s aspiration did not slow down and in 2003 MTC-Vodafone Bahrain was launched with the first 3G/EDGE nationwide network in the world. In 2004 the MTC Atheer service was launched in Southern Iraq, and today covers Baghdad as well.
2004 also witnessed the government of Lebanon handing over the management of one of two mobile networks (Mic2) to the MTC Group, which is known now as mtc touch.
Most recently in March of 2005 MTC acquired Celtel International, a Duch communications network company with major interests in 13 Sub-Saharan African countries, in one of the biggest telecom deals in the Middle East and Africa worth $ 3.36 billion.
MTC Group now operates in 18 countries. With this deal MTC Group has completed its first phase of its 3x3x3 strategy which entails becoming a global operator with more than 15 million customers by 2011. MTC will continue to expand internationally through acquisitions, partnerships and green-field opportunities.
