Tigo Ghana has partnered with London-based telecommunications company, ONEm Communications to launch ONEm’s SuperSMS network, giving users access to a growing ecosystem of interactive SMS-based services.
As the pioneering mobile operator to offer the ONEm services in Ghana, Tigo is establishing itself as an innovative forward-thinking operator when it comes to their consumer offerings. Following the merge between Tigo and Airtel Ghana over 10 million people, which is almost 50% of Ghanians, will have immediate access to a range of intelligent and interactive SMS-based services that were never before available over SMS and voice.
Currently live in East Africa and the Middle East, ONEm is relentlessly working to close the digital divide, ensuring nobody is left behind. ONEm SuperSMS network gives access, on any mobile, to modern communications with Internet-like group chat and provides access to a myriad of interactive services for social communications, education, entertainment and self-help business tools.
ONEm’s multilingual platform enables millions of people to interact with audio and text services in many different languages, including French and Arabic. For example, by texting #France24 to the platform code, users are able to read and listen to the latest news stories in their own language. Furthermore, people can send a message in their language and the recipient can receive in a different language.
“Ghana is a progressive African nation with great potential, as evidenced by their technology programs; Ghana Space Science and Technology Centre, Innovations and HOPE City and Centre for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine. We see many applications where SuperSMS can be used to bridge the gap between 33% of the people without data while providing a better and more suitable use the existing SMS and voice infrastructure for those with data,” said Christopher Richardson, CEO of ONEm.
