Local provider of prepaid airtime and electricity, Sebros Telecomms has selected Leaf Wireless and the Intellect GPRS POS device to drive its new e-voucher prepaid distribution initiative.
Sebros is currently one of SA`s largest suppliers of both prepaid electricity and airtime into the local market. The company recently adopted a strategy whereby it can skip the administration intensive retail leg of selling airtime and offer distribution thereof through the existing GSM/GPRS infrastructure.
Sebros has partnered with Leaf Wireless on the project in which Leaf will supply the company with the Leaf M-Commerce platform and Intellect POS devices for which the company is the sole local distributor. These terminals will form the core backbone through which Sebros will dispense its airtime top-up
Quinton Leigh, managing director at Leaf Wireless, says: "The whole Sebros model is perfectly suited to the changing nature of the African market and more importantly the buying patterns and needs of the local consumer. The Leaf M-Commerce platform fits perfectly with Sebros`s strategy."
One of the main objectives of the partnership is to ensure that the solution deployed is cost-effective and efficient. But also provide a platform from which the solution can grow and develop to cater for the growth associated to this market.
According to Sebros: "Sebros e-voucher is a very exciting project for us, and we have had enormous interest from the industry. It is with this that we needed a partner that could not only deliver the physical hardware for this project, but could at the drop of the hat develop enterprise back-ends, share technical expertise and professionalism. To us Leaf was that partner."
"Sebros is way ahead of its competitors in that it is a company which believes in the anytime and anywhere philosophy of the South African consumer. We are delighted to be seen as a Sebros partner and believe that this partnership is merely the tip of the iceberg for the delivery of future technologies in the same space," ends Leigh.
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