Shaka Mobile is a US based wireless and mobile financial services provider using the Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) business model. Shaka Mobile launched a pilot program in May 2010, and is the first mobile services company to offer tailored products and services to Diaspora Africans

African diaspora

The African diaspora was the movement of Africans and their descendants to places throughout the world—predominantly to the Americas also to Europe, the Middle East and other places around the globe...

 in the United States. Through its strategic partnership, Shaka Mobile uses the Sprint Nextel

Sprint Nextel

Sprint Nextel Corporation is an American telecommunications company based in Overland Park, Kansas. The company owns and operates Sprint, the third largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States, with 53.4 million customers, behind Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility...

 and Verizon networks and has a nationwide coverage footprint.

Products and services

Being an ethnic focused MVNO, Shaka Mobile aims to provide its customers with products and services that meet specific needs of its target segment which are not being immediately met by other service offerings in the market. Products and services include, low cost International Long Distance (ILD) calling to customers home countries, low cost International Mobile Money Transfer

Mobile Payment

Mobile financial services, also referred to as mobile money, mobile payment, mobile banking, mobile money transfer and mobile wallet generally refer to payment services operated under financial regulation and performed from or via a mobile device....

and Airtime Top Up
.

External links

• Official Shaka Mobile website
• Sprint website