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Launch date | 11 May 2021 |
Operating system(s) | |
Status | Active |
Website | Telebirr |
Telebirr (Amharic: ቴሌብር)[1][2] is a mobile payment service developed and was launched by Ethio telecom, the state owned telecommunication and Internet service provider in Ethiopia.[3][4][5] It took five months to develop the end-to-end service. It facilitates the delivery of cashless transactions.[6] The platform deployed currently has the capacity of processing up to 100 transactions per second (TPS) and can be scaled up to 1000 TPS. The service is accessible via SMS, USSD, and smartphone applications. Telebirr works in five languages.