Zain boosts SMEs with new package, Mybusiness

Zain Nigeria has launched Mybusiness, a new package that is specially designed to enhance the efficiency and productivity of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) across the country.
The new value adding offering which was introduced into the market today in Lagos by the leading mobile operator is expected to help business owners irrespective of their location within Nigeria, take full control of the cost of phone calls by their company while also giving them the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of value added services.
Some of the other benefits include free staff to staff calls (workers in the same enterprise), lower rates for calls to top five international destinations and exclusive Internet offers, among other advantages.
The Chief Operating Officer of Zain Nigeria, Deepak Srivastava, explained that Mybusiness is a revolutionary package that is intended to positively impact and transform small and medium scale enterprises in the country, adding that that company has put in the hands of the owners of SMEs the tool to manage their communication cost, increase the volume of business transactions and meet the communication needs of their employees.
“Mybusiness is a clear demonstration of Zain’s commitment to enrich the lives of business owners and managers across the country as it comes with a Master line concept that empowers entrepreneurs to monitor and control communications cost in their businesses,” said Srivastava.
The Zain Mybusiness package is offered to businesses identified as SMEs with staff strength of between 1-50 employees. The package is sold with two lines (master line and associate line) and pre-provisioned on the service class with enough credit included to cover the first month minimum commitment fee of all the lines.
Additional lines can be added to the group if required. The master line or business owner’s name can have as many as 49 associate lines attached to it while minimum number of lines in a group is two.
To connect to the Mybusiness package, new users are required to buy a Zain My Business line which comes with two SIM packs: master line and associate while existing customers can migrate their existing lines by visiting a Zain shop nearest to their houses or business places.
Srivastava added that the Mybusiness offer is designed in a simple fashion as existing Zain customers who are entrepreneurs can connect to the offer by dialing *600# from the Master line while non Zain SME customers can purchase a Zain prepaid SIM to connect to the package.
The master line or main line in the Zain Mybusiness offer is the first line that joins the group and it adds the other lines (workers’ lines) to the group. It is the only line that can migrate, add and delete the workers’ lines just as it is the only line that recharges each month to cover the access charge for all other lines in the group. The master line (in most cases) belongs to the owner of the business.
All lines under the Zain My Business package have access to the usual prepaid Zain VAS at the standard rates (Me2U, one network, roaming, Pay4Me, Voicemail, WAP, information services, MMS, social network, inspirational services, caller ring back tone, data roaming, etc.)