Airtel outdoors Alcatel PIXI III smart phone

Airtel Ghana, leader in innovative data products and services, has introduced onto the mobile market the Alcatel Pixi III Smartphone, at a very affordable price in order to make smartphone devices and services accessible to everyone.

A statement issued in Accra by Maame Dufie Cudjoe, Corporate Communications and External Affairs Manager and copied to Ghana News Agency said the smart phone comes with great and exciting offers such as a free SIM; free 1GB data monthly for 12 months; free Facebook and Internet.org; double data on internet bundles and 1 month free Wynk music subscription.

It said in order for subscribers to enjoy usage and reduce cost, the Alcatel Pixi III Smartphone comes with the latest smartphone specs as well as preinstalled mobile applications (airtelcare, whatsapp, facebook, twitter, wynk, google maps, viber etc) with a four inch screen.

It added that the brand new Alcatel Pixi III smartphone makes mobile internet available to everyone while offering innovative features.

Director of Data Business at Airtel, John Claude Domilongo Bope stated that, “The smartphone landscape is rapidly changing with high quality smartphones becoming more affordable and accessible”.

“At Airtel we continue to make the internet more accessible to our customers by providing the best phones and devices on the smart phone network with services at a price that is accessible for even more of our customers.”

“The introduction of this smartphone is an insightful move by the smartphone network to ensure that all demographics can enjoy the smartphone experience without incurring much cost,” he added.

Airtel Ghana is known in the data industry as pacesetters through its introduction of many innovative data services.

Notably among these value added services are Browse Chaw bundles (100 per cent more data), dual scratch card, which enables consumers to load voice or data, Rollover of data bundles which allows consumers to roll over their unused data before it expires as well as the Phone backup service, which allows customers to back up their contacts and media, it said.

The statement said Airtel Ghana’s partnership with Facebook is making it easier for people to access basic internet services.

Through Facebook’s Internet.org app, Airtel customers using mobile internet capable devices would now be able to access a set of free services in categories such as health, education, communication, jobs, and local information.