In a bid to advance the cash-less policy, MTN Business, the business-to-business division of MTN Nigeria, has provided 80,000 Subscriber Identification Module cards to the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System.
This was achieved through the successful rollout of Point of Sale services at the popular Oke-Arin Market in Lagos and other shopping malls in the metropolis.
A statement from the company quoted the Chief Enterprise Solutions Officer, Mr. Bob Osho, as saying, “Several tests were conducted with different PoS terminals at the market, and they were all successful. And this is just the beginning as we have resolved most of the connectivity issues.
“In all, we have provided 80,000 SIMs to NIBSS and we are empowering PoS merchants by giving them options for service delivery in the malls. We will also provide prompt and top-class after sales support and proactively work together to ensure network quality is desirable where necessary.”
Apart from Oke-Arin, network quality optimisation has been completed at the Silverbird Galleria, while work is ongoing at Alaba, ASPAMDA, Ikota and Computer Village, the statement added.
According to Osho, apart from MTN’s extensive fibre network, the company has also perfected its local processing power, local data storage, networking, and graphical user interface, which have made it possible to develop flexible and highly functional PoS systems.
“The key requirements that must be met by modern PoS systems include high and consistent operating speed, reliability, ease of use, remote supportability, low cost, and rich functionality, all of which have been perfected by MTN Business,” he said.
Apart from wired connectivity in selected shopping malls, he said MTN also had the cutting-edge technology to deploy cloud-based PoS, whose advantages were instant centralisation of data; ability to access data from anywhere there was Internet connection; lower costs and the ability to expand PoS systems to mobile devices.