Oxygen8 and Kenya Orient Insurance tackling device loss

Details: James Barton; Category: Cybersecurity; 02 October 2013; 6819 views

A new kind of mobile device insurance is launching in Kenya following a team-up between Oxygen8 Group and Kenya Orient Insurance Limited.

Orient Mobile provides stand-alone mobile phone cover that aims to significantly reduce the potential trouble caused by a lost or stolen mobile device, simply by preparing users for the situation. The cover comes unbundled from domestic cover and is open to all data-enabled phones.

Brian Waluchio, CEO of Oxygen8 East Africa commented “With over 29 million subscribers in the country, it is a great honour to work with Kenya Orient Insurance Limited in providing a solution to the increasing problem of mobile phone loss in the country.”

The product will apply to over 120 mobile phone models that use GSM SIM cards and are internet-enabled. Oxygen8’s technology will facilitate the messaging between Orient Mobile and the end user.

Muema Muindi, Managing Director of Kenya Orient insurance added; “Working with Oxygen8 has been a great step in helping us create a service that is simple for our clients to use, giving them peace of mind that their device is covered in a few easy steps.”