African-owned fintech platforms Chipper Cash and Payday, have reported N182m in sales in processing purchases of Elon Musk’s Starlink to Nigerians.
This is coming after Starlink, a satellite internet service provider, owned by Twitter CEO, Elon Musk was recently launched in Nigeria which sparked reactions from many Nigerians that it would give telecoms giants like Glo, MTN, and Airtel, a run for their money.
Nigerians who initially experienced challenges of purchasing Starlink kits can now purchase the Starlink kits and subscribe to its services via Chipper Cash and Payday. These two fintech platforms were selected as preferred options by the satellite internet service providers to enable Nigerians to purchase the kits.The company disclosed this in a statement on its website, saying “For Naira Payments, please use Payday. $43/month for service and $600 for hardware.”. It also named virtual cards funded with naira for its services.
Meanwhile, Ugandan tech mogul Ham Serunjogi, who owns Chipper Cash has disclosed through a post on his verified Twitter account that users in Nigeria have spent more than $100,000 on SpaceX Starlink kits using ChipperCash Visa cards.
So also, the Nigerian founder of Payday, Favor Ori shared similar reports in a tweet with his platform that Payday has processed over $300,000 in payments for Starlink since its launch.
“We have helped Starlink process over $300,000 since launch.” He tweeted.
Nigerians have also taken to twitter to share their various experiences using Elon Musk’s satellite internet, many have agreed that it is reliable for faster internet speed.
