The family of Utiba Products includes the following products:
U:Choose
This product enables secure SMS, USSD, Web and SOAP based multi-level
top-up of pre-paid accounts. It incorporates an unlimited hierarchy
of sales channels with internal work flow and reporting. U:Choose
gives the operator the ability to control the channel commission
and sales pricing, remove vouchers, rapidly expand distribution
and lower the top up denomination. The result is a lower cost of
sales, attraction of new customers and increased customer and channel
loyalty.
U:Choose has the following optional products
Distributor Portal
Distributor Portal - Web based access for Distributors and Dealers,
the ability for agents to access reports plus additional Workflow
to allow stock ordering from the down-line agent to its up-line
agent.
Corporate Portal
The corporate portal allows a corporation to establish its own internal
people to set up a hierarchy to match their own mobile users. For
example a company that has 4 sales geographical areas, each with
4 sales district managers and each with 10 salespeople. Each person
can have a unique top up schedule automated or manual. This can
be managed securely by the corporation
AirDirect
AirDirect leverages Utiba's banking expertise to enable direct re-charge
of a subscribers account through the linkage of a various payment
instruments. These could include Debit, Credit Cards or other Stored
Value Cards. AirDirect supports multiple channels to give the subscriber
a wide array of top-up channels, including Web, POS, ATMs, SMS,
STK, USSD and others.
U:Share
This allows a person to ship pre-paid value from their IN balance
to another person in the same network or another operator network.
Operators can charge a fee based on a percentage or fixed fee of
the amount transferred. This is debited against the recipient. This
product also allows Person to Person sale of pre-paid value from
one family member to other friends and family.
U:Trust
U:Trust revolutionises mobile payments in emerging economies. Primarily
targeted at consumers who do not have bank accounts, operator and
banks can leverage U:Trust as a new and simple way to make the mobile
phone a transaction gateway. U:Trust allows consumer to put cash
into their wallets and get cash out of wallets using a highly divers
and expansive distribution network. Subscribers can use U:Trust
to transfer value to another person and to pay for goods and services.
U:Bank
Utiba's mobile banking suite provides mobile banking for subscribers
using WAP, SIM Microbrowser, USSD, STK and Java. It allows Operators
to act as a gateway for multiple banks and supports connections
to bank hosts including ISO8583, Jetco and others.
U:Offer
U:Offer is a strategic sales and marketing weapon that allows operators
and service providers to combine services and create marketing bundles
in real time. These may be from different parts of the organisations
own services offerings, such as Voice, data, broadband, corporate
and from external providers and content sources or merchants. Using
a GUI interface this allows the marketing department to combine
bundles and packages to create new packages and constantly keep
competitors on the back foot. It also allows timely response any
threats. Pricing models, revenue sharing and reporting are all managed
in the system.
U:Rewards
Customer Loyalty programs are an important aspect of running a profitable
telecommunications operation. Utiba believes that it is rapidly
becoming a mandatory 'tool' in an increasingly competitive market.
With an industry average churn rate in the range of 10% - 20% it
is easy to see why the cost of acquiring new customers is so high.
It has been estimated that the world wide cost of customer churn
is approximately US$40 billion in terms of lost revenue and wasted
acquisition costs.
The U:Rewards solution has been designed specifically for telecommunications
operators and service providers. It uses the concept of programs
that can be assigned to a particular service, including Mobile,
Calling Card, Residential or Internet, and can be targeted at various
market segments such as professionals, teenagers or senior citizens.
Programs can be time limited and set up to specify conditions on
participation. Rewards can be structured so the benefits can only
be claimed that are defined for the specific program.