Telebirr () is a

mobile money A mobile payment, also referred to as mobile money, mobile money transfer and mobile wallet, is any of various payment processing services operated under financial regulations and performed from or via a mobile device, as the cardinal class of ...

service developed by

Huawei Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ( ; ) is a Chinese multinational technology corporation headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It designs, develops, produces and sells telecommunications equipment, consumer electronics and various smart ...

that is owned and was launched by

Ethio telecom Ethio telecom (), previously known as the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (, ETC), is an Ethiopian telecommunication company serving as the major internet and telephone service provider. Ethio telecom is owned by the Ethiopian governme ...

, the state owned telecommunication and Internet service provider in Ethiopia. It took five months for Huawei to develop the end-to-end service. It facilitates the delivery of cashless transactions.{{Cite web, last=Yewondwossen, first=Muluken, date=19 April 2021, title=Telebirr to launch in the coming weeks, url=https://www.capitalethiopia.com/featured/telebirr-to-launch-in-the-coming-weeks/, url-status=live, access-date=12 May 2021, website=www.capitalethiopia.com The platform deployed currently has the capacity of processing up to 100 transactions per second (TPS) and can be scaled up to 1000 TPS in the future according to Huawei. The service is accessible via

SMS Short Message/Messaging Service, commonly abbreviated as SMS, is a text messaging service component of most telephone, Internet and mobile device systems. It uses standardized communication protocols that let mobile devices exchange short text ...

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, and smartphone applications. Telebirr works in five languages.

Registration

Though the service is fully accessible for any customer of Ethio telecom, the users need to register through the mobile application called ''Telebirr'' or using an authorized agent or Ethio telecom shop or

Unstructured Supplementary Service Data Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), sometimes referred to as "quick codes" or "feature codes", is a communications protocol used by GSM cellular telephones to communicate with the mobile network operator's computers. USSD can be use ...

(USSD), ''*127#'' nationally. However, Telebirr also provides a “quick registration” by using any information that already exists in Ethio telecom's system.

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External links

Telebirr for iOS

Telebirr for Android
Ethio telecom services Online payments Mobile applications