BY ASHENAFI ANIMUT
ADDIS ABABA– Ethio telecom signed Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) with entertainment companies such as Sewasew, Habeshaview, iconnect and Technolab to modernize the entertainment industry.
During the signing ceremony, Telecom Chief Marketing Officer Seid Argaw said that: “Our company provides accessible, quality, reliable inclusive telecom financial services via digital entertainment Apps that are widely accessible to professionals who encourage and directly accessible to the community.”
“These MoUs create enabling environment for service industry and empowering Ethiopian entertainment industry IPTV or streaming service, Telegames and Sewasew music streaming.”
He further stated that beneficiaries can access various contents like live TV programs, drama, movies serious, video recordings, and various premium videos easily on Habeshaview by downloading from App Store or Play Store, by texting A or B to 9107 from the app. Here, it is also possible to get daily and weekly packages.
“Telecom has also been working with twenty banks with various international remittance partners,” Seid added. It has also been working with forty government services such as electric utility services, penalty fee, booking tickets online, paying taxes, among others using telebirr, he noted.
Mentioning the function of the state of the art, the officer said that telecom is leveraging its efforts through different technologies and applications to reach the needs of societies.
Moreover, IPTV provided by Habeshaview or video streaming, which allows customers to watch live television programs, dramas, movies and many other selected services using the Internet on mobile.
In addition, customers can download the rest of the Telewin games at Iconet on the Telewin website or in short text message to 985#. The other mobile games stated today are TeleGame and TeleWin by Technolav, it was learnt.
So far, the officer stated that telecom has been conducting various interventions through telebirr platform and transacts 498 billion Birr from 31.9 million customers. It was learnt that this state of the art is said to be instrumental to preserve copyright. The event was graced by various celebrities, artists, singers and media representatives and other personnel.
Source:-THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD
