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AEON |
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Blue Label's proprietary switch through which all transactional capability is accessed |
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AEON EVD |
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Is the Aeon Electronic Voucher Distribution platform, it is a central repository in which Electronic (or
Virtual) Stock is housed. It gets referenced by other internal platforms like EVMS, AMS and AEON |
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AIDS |
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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
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Amazon EC2 |
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a web service that provides resizable computing capacity
in the cloud; allowing users to obtain and configure capacity with minimal effort |
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API |
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Application Programming Interface |
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APS |
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Africa Prepaid Services (Pty) Ltd |
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APSN |
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Africa Prepaid Services Nigeria Ltd |
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ARCC |
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Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee |
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ARPU |
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Average revenue per user |
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AoA |
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Articles of Association |
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BBBEE |
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Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment |
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BLD |
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Blue Label Distribution (Pty) Ltd |
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BLT |
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Blue Label Telecoms Limited |
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Blue Label |
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Blue Label Telecoms Limited |
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Blue Label Telecoms |
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Blue Label Telecoms Limited |
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BoBo |
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Bill on Behalf of |
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BPO |
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Business Process Outsourcing |
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Bulk printing |
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Ability to print bulk vouchers |
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Brics |
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Emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa |
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CDMA |
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Code division multiple access network |
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CES |
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Comm Express Services (Pty) Ltd |
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Companies Act |
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Companies Act 71 of 2008 |
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company |
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Blue Label Telecoms Limited |
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Content aggregator |
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An organisation that gathers web content and applications from different online sources for reuse
and resale |
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CRM |
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Customer Relationship Management |
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CSI |
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Corporate Social Investment |
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CSP |
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Customer Service Points |
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CSR |
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Corporate Social Responsibility |
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Developing economies |
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A term generally used to describe a nation with a low level of material well-being (not to be confused
with third-world countries). Since no single definition of the term developed country is recognised
internationally, the levels of development may vary widely within so-called developing countries, with
some developing countries having high average standards of living |
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Digital immigrant |
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A person who grow up without technology and adopted it later |
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Digital native |
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A person for whom digital technologies already existed when they were born, and hence has
grown up with digital technology such as computers, the Internet, mobile phones and MP3s |
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Disintermediation |
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Margin squeeze |
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Distribution channels |
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For Blue Label, our distribution channels include retail and wholesale outlets, petroleum forecourts,
informal retail outlets, individual merchants/entrepreneurs, corporates and independents (Mom and
Pop Stores) |
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DTI |
|
Department of Trade and Industry |
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DTI CoGP |
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Department of Trade and Industry's Code of Good Practice |
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EB |
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An Exabyte, equal to 1 billion Gigabytes or 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 bytes. |
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EBITDA |
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Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation |
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EE |
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Employment equity |
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Emerging economies |
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Nations with social or business activity in the process of rapid growth and industrialisation |
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e-tokens |
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Electronic tokens – a form of electronic cash used for secure transactions |
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Exco |
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Executive Committee |
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FMCG |
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Fast-moving consumer goods |
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FQUN |
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Fully Qualified User Name |
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GPS |
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Global Positioning System |
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GRI |
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Global Reporting Initiative |
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group |
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Blue Label Telecoms Limited and its subsidiaries, associates and joint ventures |
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IARCS |
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Internal Audit, Risk and Control Services |
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IC |
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Investment Committee |
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ICT |
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Information, Communications and Technology |
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Intelligent transport |
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Toll roads, bus and train prepaid ticketing |
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Interconnect fees |
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Charges associated with collecting and delivering calls between two different operators (networks) |
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IP |
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Intellectual Property |
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IRCC |
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Internal Risk and Compliance Committee |
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ISO |
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Independent Sales Organisation |
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JAVA |
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Java is a programming language and computing platform |
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JSE |
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JSE Limited, a public company duly registered and incorporated in South Africa and licensed as
an exchange under the Securities Services Act 2004 |
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King III |
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The King Report on Governance for South Africa 2009 including the King Code of Governance
Principles for South Africa 2009 |
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Kiosk |
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An area within a retail outlet which is allocated to transactions for Blue Label products and services |
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LBS |
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Location-based Services |
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LTE |
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Long-Term Evolution. A set of extensions to 3G mobile networks designed to replace core GPRS.
These form a subset of the 4G specifications. |
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mCommerce |
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Mobile commerce |
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mms |
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Multimedia messaging service |
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Money remittances |
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The ability to transfer money to another individual without a bank account |
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MSC |
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Mobile Services Company |
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MoA |
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Memorandum of Association |
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NaaS |
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Network as a Service |
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Neo |
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Ukash voucher converted into a prepaid Mastercard® |
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NFC |
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Near Field Communications |
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OTA |
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Over The Air |
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Oxigen/Oxigen India |
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Oxigen Services India |
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PaaS |
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Platform as a Service |
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pCommerce |
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Prepaid Commerce |
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Physical prepaid airtime |
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Prepaid vouchers that are available as physical items |
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PIN |
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Personal identity number |
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Pin-less top-up |
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E-token recharge directly to mobile phone via a POS device |
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POS |
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Point-of-sale, usually a place or a device |
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PowerPin Voucher |
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Off-line prepaid electricity top-up, consolidates the purchase of prepaid electricity across national
municipalities |
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Previous Act |
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Companies Act 61 of 1973 as amended |
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R&D |
|
Research and Development |
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RICA |
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Regulation of Interception of Communications Act – requires the registration of personal details
of all South African cellphone subscribers |
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RNC |
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Remuneration and Nomination Committee |
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RUIM (or R-UIM) |
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Re-usable Identification Module; removable ID chip for cellular phones extends the GSM SIM card
to CDMA phones and networks |
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SaaS |
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Software as a Service |
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SAPO |
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South Africa Post Office |
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SBI |
|
State Bank of India |
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SED |
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Socio-economic development |
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Shop-in-shop |
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An area within a retail outlet which is allocated to transactions for Blue Label products and
services |
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SIC |
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Strategic Implementation Committee |
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SIM card |
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Subscriber Identification Module card |
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SMS |
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Short Message Service |
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SRI |
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Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Index |
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SSETA |
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Services Sector Education and Training Authorities |
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TC |
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Transformation Committee |
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Telco |
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Telecommunications company |
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Ticketing |
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Bus, train and airline ticketing as well as entertainment |
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Touch points |
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Devices through which consumers are able to purchase Blue Label products and services |
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TPC |
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The Prepaid Company (Pty) Ltd |
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TPPC |
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The Postpaid Company (Pty) Ltd |
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Transactional services |
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Includes money transfers, payments of bills and the like |
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unbanked |
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People without bank accounts |
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underbanked |
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People with poor access to mainstream financial services, such as banks and therefore rely on
alternative financial services OR alternatively people with bank accounts who do not make effective
use of the broader services offered by the bank – they merely deposit and withdraw cash from their
accounts |
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UNIPIN |
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Universal PIN for prepaid electricity |
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USSD |
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Unstructured supplementary service data |
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Value added |
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Measure of wealth the group has created in its operation by "adding value" to the cost of product
and services |
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VAS |
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Value added services |
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Virtual distributor |
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Distribution of e-tokens of value in electronic format |
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Virtual prepaid airtime |
|
Airtime top-up in an electronic format |
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WAP |
|
Wireless Application Protocol |
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WASP |
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Wireless Application Service Provider |
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WASPA |
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Wireless Application Service Providers’ Association |
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White label offerings |
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Non-affiliated products and services |
