Essar Telecommunications Kenya LtdHead - Core Products
Jun. 2008 - Jan. 2013==> Achieved over 1.5 million subscribers in 18 months. Current subs base 3.3M ==> Responsible to maintain and grow revenue streams of USD 3 million per month which is growing ==> Developed the launch tariff and subsequent promotional tariffs to target acquisition ==> Targeted and achieved ARPU’s of USD 3 per subscriber ==> Recommended features for deployment on the Ericsson Core Network and later ZTE for all Intelligent Network and VAS service layers ==> Introduced new revenue streams on Data, WAP, SMS, and USSD - average revenue of 400K USD per month ==> Drove the development of third party products to increase usage and revenues on Voice, SMS, USSD and Data ==> Implemented Business Efficiency process to manage partners operations ==> Creation of Framework & Launch of 3rd party Value Added Service providers for individuals as well as enterprise ==> Launch of MMS & prepaid GPRS ==> Implemented Push Email Solution – Mail for Exchange, Blackberry ==> Deployed SMS Broadcast services with Customer Care ==> Developed Mobile marketing Policy for the Company ==> Provision of input to the Communications Commission of Kenya for Mobile Marketing and 3rd Party integration policies ==> New prepaid Tariffs – yu 750, Tumenoki, Amua, No Monkey Business, SMS Data Unlimited packs,Mosmos ==> SMS revenue generating products e.g. News, Infotainment, tagged advertising ==> New promotion tools such as outbound dialler, corporate ringback tones and Ad Ring back Tones. ==> Managed Interconnect carrier relations such as TATA, Belgacom, Gateway etc ==> New business from Wholesaling of Signaling services ==> Developed Key tieups for yucash with strategic retail partners. Increased number of customers and transactions on yucash by over 150% in one year