June 2014

The mHITs BuyPower mobile prepaid electricity vending service was the WINNER of the African Mobile Financial Service (MFS) innovation of the year for 2014 at the Mondato Summit Africa on June 17-18th in Johannesburg South Africa.

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pay for electricity using mobile airtime

The BuyPower Namibia service allows users to purchase pre-paid electricity using their mobile airtime. This is the first service of its type in Africa and represents a disruptive but effective and convenient solution to the purchase of prepaid electricity. It also enables the sale of prepaid electricity in remote and regional areas for the unbanked where other forms of micro-billing are uneconomical or impossible.

The mHITs BuyPower solution enables markets using prepaid electricity to allow users to purchase electricity using carrier airtime.

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pay for electricity by mobile phone

The Easipawa Easipay (pronounced Easypower Easypay) service in Papua New Guinea allows subscribers of the Digicel PNG mobile network to purchase pre-paid electricity using their Digicel airtime.

Easipawa (pronounced Easy Power) is the name given to the pre-paid electricity metering system operated by PNG Power Limited, the local electricity utility in Papua New Guinea.

check your account balance by mobile phone

mHITs Limited has designed and developed a number of mobile information services which allow members of superannuation funds in Papua New Guinea to obtain their fund or savings balances directly via mobile phone.

Services operate on the Digicel PNG network and use a combination of USSD and SMS technology meaning they can be accessed from any mobile handset.