The Chief Commercial Officer Of Said Truecaller Hits 6.2 Million Subscribers in Nigeria
The Chief Commercial Officer, Truecaller, Mr Ted Nelson, said on
Friday that out of the 150 million phone subscribers in Nigeria,
6.2million had subscribed to Truecaller.
Nelson disclosed this on the sidelines of the launch of its
Developer programme in Lagos. According to him, in Africa, we have 50
million registered users and this is about 20 per cent of total global
Truecaller users.
“This is currently carried out by studying most likely Nigeria and South Africa for us to gain our subscribers base,’’ he said.
Nelson said that Truecaller was amongst the top five most
downloaded apps on Google play and Apple play stores in the past two
years.
He said the market was growing and that the company would leverage on smartphone penetration increase to become stronger.
He said, “To launch our Truecaller Developers Programme, which
is becoming the major skill in the India environment, is also why we are
here in Lagos, Nigeria.
“We want the same in Africa and so we want African developers
to access the tools that we can offer when it comes to making
communication more safe and beneficial.
“The Developer Programme, `Truecaller SDK’ is a mobile identity product for digital start-ups and app developers.
He said that the Truecaller app, allows people to see who was calling and filter out spam calls and SMS.
“The service is helping users block more than half a billion
spam calls on a monthly basis in the region, and more than 50 per cent
of all messages being filtered is considered as spam,’’ he said.
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