Electroneum has announced the enlargement of its service protection to 4 extra West African nations — Benin, Togo, Côte d’Ivoire, and Sierra Leone.

The transfer introduced the corporate’s African service protection to 9 nations with Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau already within the combine.

With over 4 million registered customers, Electroneum’s African push has targeted on using its ETN token for utility invoice funds and cellular airtime subscriptions by way of the corporate’s cellular app.

Nigel Pooley, head of enterprise improvement at Electroneum instructed Cointelegraph:

“We’re very happy with the tons of of electrical energy top-ups which have been accomplished in Nigeria, the place we now have tons of of Electroneum customers.”

In keeping with Pooley, the electrical energy top-ups characteristic is creating ETN utility throughout the corporate’s suite of services and products, including, “Most of those transactions come from our AnyTask freelancers.”

AnyTask is a freelancing platform powered by Electroneum that’s reportedly gaining important patronage.

As beforehand reported by Cointelegraph, crypto adoption helps to enhance the lot of African freelancers within the increasing gig economic system.

Commenting on future plans, Pooley revealed that the corporate was working to accomplice instantly with electrical energy corporations and cellular community operators. In keeping with the Electroneum enterprise improvement chief, the purpose is to make sure that customers take pleasure in base charges on electrical energy top-ups and cellular airtime recharge funds.

For now, most ETN-based invoice funds and airtime subscriptions happen by way of crypto-friendly third-party brokers in Africa.

“Now we have already managed to land direct offers with two cellular community operators, The Limitless in South Africa and Cellcard in Cambodia,” stated Pooley, including:

“However the fact is that there is little or no urge for food for crypto amongst these two industries as they imagine the dangers have but to outweigh the advantages.”