The answer to the perennial power problems in Nigeria could
be found in your mobile phone, says the Lumos
Mobile Electricity Service, reports ITRealms.
The company also said, the complex dilemma of how to power
Nigeria dominates politics and economics, yet hundreds of thousands of people
are discovering the answer is to literally take power into their own hands.
Lumos equally said it has deployed its 60,000th Y’ello Box,
an at-home solar electricity device that lets users gain access to reliable
electricity at an affordable price, which combines the power of the sun and
your MTN mobile phone to bring a new type of power to Nigeria.
ITRealms reports
that this significant milestone means more than 300,000 people right across
Nigeria are now benefitting from affordable, reliable, clean electricity,
thanks to the Lumos Mobile Electricity service ability to unleash the power of
the mobile.
Mobile phones have transformed the way we spend our daily
lives. In fact, a recent report declared Nigeria as the ‘world’s most mobilized
country’ with more mobile traffic than any other nation. With more and more
mobiles, they not only drive our demand for more accessible and reliable power,
but they can also help provide the solution.
Lumos Mobile Electricity Service operate in partnership with
MTN. Once MTN customers have joined the service, they pay their monthly
subscription fee for power from their MTN’s mobile phones air account by
texting a simple code. There’s no need for mobile money, bank accounts or
expensive machines. This is quick, easy, affordable, quiet and clean.
Mr. John Stephen Akpan, a farmer from Lagos State who
purchased the 60,000th system said:
“The Y’ello Box is making a big difference. I was using a
noisy, polluting generator, but now that Lumos has arrived, my farm has been
transformed instantly.
“I was surprised at how easy and quick the installation was,
and that I was able to start using it straight away.”
Yuri Tsitrinbaum, CEO of Lumos Nigeria said, “The mobile
revolution has transformed our need for power, and the mobile electricity
service is also going to be a significant part of the answer.”
“The Nigerian economy will thrive if we give people the
power they need to succeed. We cannot wait, and we need put power in everyone’s
own hands.”
“At Lumos we have built a unique system that uses groundbreaking
technology to harness the energy of the sun, capture and store it, and release
it thanks to your mobile phone.”
“The energy mix in Nigeria is a complex issue which we all
need to work together to solve. We
believe we have created something fantastic that is bringing power to people’s
homes and businesses like nothing else before.”
Chuks Egbune/GEE
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