The service is immediately available to Zain customers in Kenya and Tanzania. Zap will be rolled across Africa and the Middle East during 2009.
Zain is partnering with leading international and regional banks to launch Zap, which will allow Zain customers to use their mobile phones to:
The Zap service will also be included as part of Zain's One Network service which allows travelling customers to move across geographic borders without roaming surcharges, recharge their mobile phones with locally purchased top up cards and receive calls for free.
The user interface has been customised for each Zain operator across the continent.