Afghan Wireless Extends Global Customer Reach with Recharge Partnerships

KABUL, Afghanistan, March 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Afghan Wireless ("AWCC"), Afghanistan's leading telecom operator and one of Afghanistan's largest private employers, has today announced an expanded services footprint by adding More Magic™ and very soon, ezetop™, two world leaders in mobile recharge, to their already popular TOHFA™ recharge service.  With these three leading international top-up providers, Afghan Wireless customers and their friends and families throughout the world can recharge their own, or anyone's, AWCC mobile phone at any time and from anywhere.

AWCC's TOHFA™, launched in 2009, was one of Afghanistan's first online mobile phone recharge services.  To recharge an AWCC mobile number through TOHFA™ a customer simply visits the Afghan Wireless website (http://www.afghan-wireless.com/tohfa) enters their/family or friend's AWCC number, selects a denomination & pays with a credit card through Google-Checkout.  The AWCC subscriber receives the airtime within an hour.

MoreMagic Solutions™, a leading mobile financial solutions provider, will soon expand AWCC's international mobile phone recharge capabilities throughout the world.  More Magic™ will provide AWCC top-up services through the internet at http://www.etopuponline.com, or by visiting any of the hundreds of thousands of participating retail locations worldwide. The AWCC More Magic™ solution is planned for activation before December 1, 2011.  

ezetop™ and AWCC have reached an agreement to facilitate AWCC customers with additional mobile recharge access across Asia, the Middle East, Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, North America and Europe.  As per this agreement, ezetop™ will integrate their mobile top-up services with AWCC's platform to serve AWCC customers across the globe.  ezetop™ enables people living or working abroad to instantly top-up mobile phones of family and friends back home.  Services are available from over 350,000 retail stores across the world as well as from their online website, http://www.ezetop.com.

"AWCC welcomes MoreMagic Solutions and ezetop as new value added service providers along with our existing TOHFA service", said Ehsan Bayat, AWCC's Chairman.  "AWCC strives to serve all of our customers as well as their geographically distributed family and friends who want to provide the AWCC customer with recharge credit.  By providing our customers services from 3 international mobile top-up providers we can offer assurance that AWCC consumers will always be able to make or receive that next important call."

About Afghan Wireless - Headquartered in Kabul, AWCC serves approximately 4,000,000 subscribers throughout Afghanistan; and is one of the largest employers of Afghans.  AWCC employs over 4,300 people directly and another 100,000 indirectly.  AWCC is a leader in delivering wireless and broadband communication solutions to residential and business customers.  Additional information is available at http://www.afghan-wireless.com or through Telephone Systems International ("TSI") website at http://www.tsiglobe.com

CONTACT: Alberto Lopez, a.lopez@tsiglobe.com, +97-142278695