{"id":6129,"date":"2014-05-02T09:29:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T09:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/about-us\/regions\/africa\/gsma_resources\/mobile-money-in-cte-doivoire-a-turnaround-story-2"},"modified":"2014-05-02T09:29:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T09:29:34","slug":"mobile-money-in-cte-doivoire-a-turnaround-story-2","status":"publish","type":"gsma_theme_resources","link":"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/about-us\/regions\/africa\/gsma_resources\/mobile-money-in-cte-doivoire-a-turnaround-story-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile money in C\u2122te d\u00d5Ivoire: A turnaround story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a challenging start, mobile money is taking off in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire. In June 2013,<br \/>\nCelPaid, Moov, MTN, Orange, and Qash Services had together registered close to 5<br \/>\nmillion mobile money accounts, 35% of which are active. It is quite an impressive<br \/>\nnumber considering there are only 9.6m unique mobile subscribers in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (the mobile market has 20.1m GSM connections and a high degree of multi-SIMing).\u00a0However, it is only recently that Ivoirians have started to adopt mobile money. In December 2011, three years after the launch of the country\u2019s first mobile money service, there were just over 2 million registered accounts and 22% were active.<\/p>\n<p>h<a title=\"Mobile money in C\u2122te d\u00d5Ivoire: A turnaround story\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/connectivity-for-good\/mobile-for-development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MMU_Cote_dIvoire_Turnaround_Story.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ttp:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/connectivity-for-good\/mobile-for-development\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MMU_Cote_dIvoire_Turnaround_Story.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a challenging start, mobile money is taking off in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire. In June 2013, CelPaid, Moov, MTN, Orange, and Qash Services had together registered close to 5 million mobile money accounts, 35% of which are active. It is quite an impressive number considering there are only 9.6m unique mobile subscribers in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"image":null,"json":{"gsma_resources_type":null,"gsma_resources_thumb":"[]","gsma_resources_file":"[]","gsma_resources_multi":null,"gsma_resources_wgr":null,"gsma_resources_video":null,"gsma_resources_image":"[]","gsma_resources_url":null,"gsma_resources_date":null,"gsma_resources_button":null}},"tags":[],"resource_categories":[],"algolia_discover_type":[2220],"class_list":["post-6129","gsma_theme_resources","type-gsma_theme_resources","status-publish","hentry","algolia_discover_type-resource"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mobile money in C\u2122te d\u00d5Ivoire: A turnaround story - GSMA Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/about-us\/regions\/africa\/gsma_resources\/mobile-money-in-cte-doivoire-a-turnaround-story-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mobile money in C\u2122te d\u00d5Ivoire: A turnaround story - GSMA Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After a challenging start, mobile money is taking off in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire. 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