Zain Rebrands Celtel in Nigeria and 13 African Operators
Zain, the leading telecommunications group has announced it has re-branded its entire African operations from Celtel to Zain. The mobile solutions company services over 50 million customers in 22 countries across the Middle East and Africa.
What this means is that 14 African countries including Nigeria will immediately rebrand to Zain. Other country operators include: Kenya, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia as well as in Francophone countries such as Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, amongst others. Zain plans to launch its mobile operation in Ghana later in 2008.
Zain also announced the creation of the world’s first cross-continental borderless network, extending and linking its ‘One Network’ service between Africa and the Middle East. The new Zain brand has a vibrant and colourful identity to create “A Wonderful World” - a world linking two continents (Africa and the Middle East).
The ‘One Network’ service will be available to 500 million people stretching from the west coast of Africa to the Middle East, covering an area larger than the United States of America. Since it was launched on August 1, customers can make calls and send messages at local rates when communicating with a travelling Zain customer who will receive incoming calls free-of-charge and be able to make calls back home at local rates.
What’s more?
Another interesting thing about this service is that, pre-paid customers can top up their phones with recharge cards bought from either their home country or more than one million outlets available in one of the 15 ‘One Network’ countries. Then, the ’One Network’ service is automatically activated upon crossing the geographic border into one of the countries, with no prior registration required or sign-up fee.
The Zain Group aims towards becoming one of the top ten global mobile telecommunications companies by 2011.
Via: Zain Press Release
Na wao, this na real chameleon company.
First it was called Econet Wireless. Then i think they changed their name to Vodacom or something like that. Then they changed their name again to Celltell. Now Zain.
Haba? Is this their final name?
[...] companies like MTN Nigeria and Globacom Nigeria. Just recently, Celtel Nigeria changed its name to Zain Nigeria as a result of a rebranding effort by the Zain [...]
I know that in the UK broadband, internet cost just 25 pounds about 5000 naira, zain should try doing something similar if that will break down the monopoly of the so called almighty extortioners like mtn and glo.
What is happening to your network service? I can not register 10 friends and family numbers, no respond whenever I call costumer service number.What is your problem for goodness sake?People are complaining everyday,why? No enough information on TRU talk prepaid.
[...] not been a huge fan of Zain Nigeria (formerly Celtel Nigeria), but I think the mobile company will enjoy my patronage from now:-) Zain [...]
when una dey recruit,guys need jab
Whats up with this network..was told to recharge my phone account with 8,000 naira to get a bonus of 3,200 naira the following week … now 6wks has past and have recieved no such bonuses …i suggest u get ur priorities right …or desist from sending msgs that you can’t uphold too…
Am having problem sending sms and call me back each time i send call me back what usually appears is “request not completed. and Check operator services when i send sms.
please help me out
i want my line to be unbar.
i have two major complains, for some days now i have been unable to load card on one of my lines and as well i am unable to check my credit on the same line [07081531402] and the second complain is that of my second line with which i was trying to send a ME2U call card to the above line, i made a mistake and the next thing is that i received a message that says i am barred from using that service and after that i was trying to load a card on the same phone which i have tried on the above line but could not see if it had entered or not and the next message i received was that i have been barred from this service. this number which i have been complaining about that need to be unbarred is[07088438697].
I need job, am an nd holder
hey ppl, this is not the place to seek customer care…try to ring customer service on zain or go to the shop/vendor.