Nigeria’s Guaranty Trust (GT) Bank has partnered with global mobile messaging and transaction services firm Clickatell to provide a virtual airtime top up (VTU) offering to banking customers.

As a result, GT Bank customers are set to be able to buy prepaid airtime via mobile money, mobile banking or internet banking services thanks to the development.

According to a press statement, the next phase of the partnership is planned to include prepaid data, prepaid fixed lines and prepaid BlackBerry bundles.

“I think VTU will be a great mobile prepaid product distribution technology that will revolutionise the telecoms distribution space because of its ease of usage, security and availability,” said Samson Isa, director of Clickatell West Africa in a statement.