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| Ms Folashade Ayeni, COO of Lets Talk I.T and Telco. |
Ms. Folashade Ayeni, the Chief Operating Officer of the
company, made this known while speaking with newsmen on Sunday in Abuja.
Ayeni said the application was designed by a team of
Nigerian software engineers in line with the vision of the National Information
Technology Development Agency (NITDA) for indigenous companies to come into the
social media space.
“Let’s Talk was created out of a need that Nigerians and
Africans have. If you look at it, sometime last year in October, October 4 To
be precise, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram crashed. No one was able to use
those applications because of one thing or the other.
“Many people lost money, several people were not able to
reach families, friends, relatives and do business normally, because a whole
lot of people have taken business and relationship to the social media.
“It crashed for about six hours or so and the reality dawned
on us that really, whether it was intentional or not on purpose, we could lose
everything.
“So we thought about owning our social media platform where
people can have guaranteed communications and security and privacy is also
guaranteed which is Nigerian owned and indigenous for us in Africa.”
She said the company was aiming to collaborate with NITDA,
the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), and other relevant agencies to
ensure the success of the application and acceptability of Nigerians.
On the unique features of the app, she said it is
end-to-encrypted, allows users to listen to and share music, video and audio
calls, 5,000 member group chat, seven-person conference calls, and file
exchange up to 2 GB.
According to her, it also allows for device and cloud
caching as well as sharing moments and trends, which will give users very
pleasant experiences.
The application could be downloaded on Google Play and App
Store for both Android and Apple phones. It is in two parts, Let’s Talk Basic
which would be a free social media platform while there would be a second phase
that would be on a subscription basis.
“Now, there will be Let’s Talk social, which is the basic
one that everybody knows. You chat, you speak to people, you do video calls do
video conferences for free, but there’s a secondary part of it.
“And the second part of it is to provide enterprise resource
management. So there are people who want to subscribe to that package.
“We are talking about ministries, para statal agencies,
businesses, banks, and other sectors that can utilize the platform to improve
their businesses and services and that is where value comes in,” she said. -NAN