Mobile2busy Unit Transfer
by David Ajao2005-10-03 00:00:00 | Viewed 2052 times
Mobile Africa is all about sharing using information about mobile communciations technology in Africa, and its useful applications in our everyday lives.
BusyInternet was established in Ghana in 2001, and claims to be the largest privately owned & operated ICT centre in Africa. With a unique mission to provide both commercial services as well as social development, Busy has been featured as a promising ‘hybrid’ model for Africa. The focus of this article though is their cybercafé in Accra, Ghana and their busyaccess service.
A customer who purchases some credit at the centre is given an account with a 12 alphabets as username. The owner can then use this credit on any of the computers in the cybercafé, browse the internet from one’s laptop, within the premises using their wi-fi network, or even browse from home via dial-up which they have branded “busyaccess”.
The interesting part is that, busy has collaborated with Areeba (Ghana’s leading GSM network) to come-up with a way for busy's subscribers to reload their busy account using their mobile phone units with areeba.
On the welcome page that welcomes users to busy’s cybercafé, the following is written, “just top up your busyaccount from your areeba mobile phone. Text your account ID to '1488' and we'll automatically transfer 30,000 cedis to your busy account. (Note: service costs 5 units).”
According to busy, accounts are credited within 24 hours.
The best part of this is that, busyaccess subscribers who are all over the country can now top-up their accounts just by sending a text message, and have some of the credit transferred to their busy account.
This is what technology is all about; making life easier for humanity.
David Ajao writes from Accra, Ghana.
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