The partnership intends to provide service to Ethiopians anywhere to stay connected to their families and friends in an easy and fast International Airtime Top-Up service.   

Ethio telecom is pleased to invite companies engaged in International Top Up service to partner with us in providing Top-Up service to the Ethiopian community residing abroad. As part of the Ethio telecom digitalization strategy of distribution channel, International Airtime Top-Up service is among the key business priorities. We are embarking on this to enable Ethiopians living abroad to recharge the mobile accounts of families and friends in Ethiopia. 

The service aims at helping the Ethiopian community abroad to buy local airtime used to top-up friends and family’s mobile phones in Ethiopia. Through this partnership, we intend to provide service to Ethiopian’s throughout the world. Ethio telecom International Airtime Top Up partnership requirements:

• Legal business license specific to IAT to run the business in the country of establishment
• Have proven experience for availing the related IAT business in other countries/operators (at least three reference letters)
• Detailed company profile (establishment, experience, past performance)
• Global reach across continents, number of connected operators, IAT service partners & retailer network. And a list of countries that use a partner’s platform.
• Local partner responsible for the operations within Ethiopia and with Ethio telecom should provide partnership agreement and letter of authorization to deal on behalf of the International Top-Up service partner. Partners engaged in other business with Ethio telecom may enter into the business based on their merit without a local agent.
• Business plan, purchase & sales projection for three years, sales & marketing strategy.
• Acceptance of upfront commission and sales incentive set by Ethio telecom
• Your confirmation for pre-payment
• Can buy airtime a minimum stock set by Ethio telecom in foreign currency (USD).
• Can promote the service within the territories via all available channels
• Be willing to cooperate with any social, developmental, and business offers via IAT. 
• A Top-up platform that can integrate to Ethio telecom COMVIVA PRETUPS system, Flexible API integration
• A platform that can manage end to end transactions with a rich reporting tool, ability to avail different denominations with convenience.
• Various recharge access channels like Kiosk, Web, POS, App, phone to phone, etc.
• Availability of customer service (24/7 technical support and account management team for follow up and reporting)
• Specify Integration & commercialization timetable
• Minimum Contract Period will be one year with the possibility of extension based on performance review

Interested companies can contact us for any clarification with the below address:

Email: Adam.demeke@ethiotelecom.et and InternationalVASTeam@ethiotelecom.et

Ethio telecom, Churchill Road, EYOR Tower, next to Tewodros Square.