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Helpline Telecoms Nigeria Limited was incorporated as a private limited liability Company in 2003. Helpline Telecoms was registered to provide service in Nigeria's telecoms downstream sector that has an active telephone lines of about 85 Million as at October, 2010.〔(Nigerian Communications Commission )〕 The Company is made up of two units, Helpline e-Services and Helpline Family. Helpline e-Services is a POS based Electronic Voucher Distribution (EVD) platform designed for the use of Retail Outlets – Hotels, Supermarkets, Pharmacies, Mini-marts, Eateries, Bookshops etc. The need to reduce the cost of printing and distributing recharge cards in Nigeria forced many telecoms operators to consider an alternative medium of distributing their air-time electronically. This need and also in keeping with the trends in developed countries of North America and Western Europe the company decided to invest in the development of Electronic Voucher Distribution (EVD) platform by using Helpline e-Box, equipped with GPRS technology to vend telephone air-time. This service called Helpline e-Services is a service targeting the pre-paid telephone billing system users that constitute more than 90% of the total phone subscriber base in Nigeria. The participating vendors includes hotels, supermarkets, cybercafes and eateries across the nation. The service started at inception on the platform of Visafone but later expanded to include Nigerian's second national carrier and GSM operator Globacom and CDMA network Starcomms Plc. A steady growth has been witnessed in the 3 years of operations and subscriber base currently stand at 7,000. Helpline has picked up several awards from Telecommunications service providers (operators) in Nigeria over the past four years.〔(ITREALMS Online: Celtel boosts dealers with vehicles )〕〔(ITREALMS Online: MTN Rewards Trade Partners )〕〔(ITREALMS Online: Distributor's Impact on Etisalat's Market )〕 == Case Study == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Helpline Telecoms Nigeria Limited」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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