10 May 2021

Huawei Mobile Services has teamed up with Mondia Pay, a digital payments company, to enable contactless payments via Huawei devices on networks across Africa.

Mondia Pay’s direct carrier billing service integration was launched with Vodafone Egypt and during this quarter, Cell C South Africa, Orange Tunisia and Ooredoo Algeria will go live with the DCB service, following the testing phase.

As a DCB services for consumers, Mondia Pay is available on Huawei AppGallery, to facilitate online payments. Subscribers can also now use DCB to access apps on Huawei AppGallery, which expands their access to top local and global apps.

Mondia Pay, Mondia’s digital payment entity, processes well over 2.1 billion monthly transactions globally, allowing consumers to pay for services using their mobile phone.

“We are extremely proud of our continued partnership with Huawei, and the efforts to enable customers across the continent to benefit from Mondia Pay’s fully integrated digital payment technology to make frictionless payments in a fast, safe and secure manner,” said Simon Rahmann, CEO of Mondia Pay. “We also support the continuous efforts taken towards the transition to cashless societies, which has gained significant traction in the past 12 months.”

Adam Xiao, managing director, HMS and consumer cloud service, Huawei Consumer Business Group MEA, added: “We’re excited to strengthen our partnership with Mondia Pay, and bring our users across the MEA region more payment options. With this, we continue to enhance our ongoing commitment to enabling local and global developers to seamlessly offer their services to millions of more people in the MEA region.”