Web Jurist Crowns Airtel Nigeria Best Teleco Corporate Website

Web Jurist panelists and leading consulting firm, Philips Consulting, have awarded Airtel Nigeria, leading telecommunications services provider the best corporate website has in the telecoms sector in Nigeria.

Philips Consulting, organizer of Web Jurist in the last 12 years, is a leading consulting firm in Africa.

According to the panel of judges, Airtel beat all its closest rivals to clinch the coveted prize in the telecoms category at an event that was attended by telecoms professionals, bankers, business leaders and pundits within the Information Communications Technology domain Kingsley Unah, Airtel Nigeria’s general manager, Revenue Assurance, received the award on behalf of the company.

A citation read in honour of Airtel at the event said the company’s corporate website has the best aesthetics and sits on an elevated pedestal when compared with other contenders in the category.

The organizers also said the criteria used in the rating of websites of corporate organisations in Nigeria include aesthetics, technical aspects, web content, customer experience and performance.

Commenting on the accolade, Segun Ogunsanya, chief executive officer & managing director, Airtel Nigeria, said the honour is a glowing testimony to the company’s efforts at repositioning as Nigeria’s leading mobile Internet Company.

“At Airtel Nigeria, we are committed to realizing one of our key objectives of becoming a data-centric organization and Nigeria’s number one mobile Internet Company. We are glad that our corporate website bears testimony to this and we will continue to engage telecoms consumers in Nigeria via our revolutionary corporate website, www.ng.airtel.com ,” he said.

According to Mr. Mr. Foluso Phillips, the chairman, said that the Web-Jurist ratings were conceived by e-business experts at Phillips Consulting.

The ratings commenced in May 2001 with version 1.0. Its primary objective was to critically and objectively evaluate the effectiveness of websites in Nigeria, focusing initially on the financial services industry and taking into account what the customer wants.

The Web-Jurist evaluation tool used for the ratings was developed using intelligent algorithms and the process entails a step-by-step web analysis using detailed criteria developed specifically to evaluate the effectiveness and performance of web sites.