Towards raising the number of gold card users to 14.5 million subscribers – Al-Hiwar Al-Jazaeryia

The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications seeks to increase the number of users of the golden electronic payment card to 14.5 by the year 2024.

During an intervention delivered by the Secretary General of the Ministry, Abdel Wahhab Bara. On the occasion of the opening of the first edition of the Algerian Forum for Financial Technologies and Electronic Commerce. He emphasized that Algeria Post has succeeded to this day in providing more than 10.4 million citizens with the golden card. This number will be raised to 14.5 million users during 2023/24.

And the spokesman pointed out that in the past year, 1.9 million new cards were registered, and this allowed the indicators of electronic payment in Algeria to grow significantly.

The Secretary-General added that electronic payment operations have increased to 9 million transactions recorded in 2022, “a number that includes the operations carried out with the gold card and the bank card together.” For 200,000 payments in 2019.

As the minister confirmed in a speech delivered on his behalf by the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, Abdel Wahhab Bara, regarding the promotion and expansion of the Internet, the indicators witnessed a positive development. More than 48 million subscribers connected to fixed and mobile internet have been registered. This number includes 4.7 million fixed-line subscribers by the end of 2022, which exceeds the target number in the action plan that seeks to connect two-thirds of homes to the fixed Internet by the end of 2024. In addition, the number of mobile Internet users has exceeded 44 million subscribers.

It is noteworthy that the first edition of the Algerian Forum for Financial Technologies and Electronic Commerce, which is being held to date at the International Conference Center “Abdel Latif Rahal”. Under the slogan “Towards the modernization of financial transactions, serving the digital economy. It is organized by the “Qayedini” Foundation for E-Commerce and Marketing. In cooperation with the Algerian Gathering of Activists in Digital and the Gathering of Automated Cash. Under the auspices of the Minister of Post and Telecommunications. Minister of Digitization and Statistics, Minister of Knowledge Economy, Emerging Enterprises and Small Enterprises.