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FNB launches own smartphones
FNB today launched the ConeXis X1 and A1 smartphones, targeting both high-end and entry-level customers.
| FNB has launched its own branded FNB smartphone, in a move that it says will fully integrate banking and customer mobility.
“For FNB, mobile banking is more than just having the best banking app,” says Jan Kleynhans, CEO of the FNB Consumer Segment. “For us, true mobile banking is enabling customers to bank anywhere, anytime using smartphone technology at affordable prices for our customers.” FNB is offering customers the choice of two smartphones, the low-end ConeXis A1 with a 4-inch screen, and the high-end and X1 with a 5.2-inch screen.  ConeXis X1 The A1 is pitched at the price-sensitive Easy bank account holder, who now has access to a high-quality smartphone at an affordable price of R59 per month. This includes 15 minutes airtime and 50MB of data. Gold and Premium (Premier, Private Clients and Private Wealth) customers are being targeted with the higher specification X1, at R150 per month. It includes 25 minutes airtime and 100MB of data. FNB offers up to a 100 per cent rebate on the X1 monthly instalments, depending on the customer’s eBucks Rewards level. Gold customers on eBucks Rewards level of 3, 4, 5 will be rebated R60, R90, R150 (100 per cent) on the monthly repayment respectively. Premium customers will be rewarded from level 1. “In line with the global trend towards convergence in digital migration, we believe that it’s critical to empower our customers with smartphones that not only improve their banking and mobile experience, but are also affordable and of a high quality,” says Kartik Mistry, head of smart devices at FNB.  ConeXis A1 FNB has tightly integrated the ConeXis smartphone offering with its rewards and banking programme which incentivises the correct products, behaviour and mobile phone usage by rewarding customers with attractive cellular discounts. FNB-banked customers can earn up to 40 per cent on their monthly cellular spend dependent on their eBucks Rewards level. “The FNB offering is also structured to encourage a savings culture through the use of convenient and cost-effective savings platforms,” adds Kleynhans. The smartphone comes on the back of the FNB Connect cellular offering launched in 2015, which seamlessly integrates customer’s financial and mobile accounts on a single banking platform. “We introduced the Connect offering to give customers control over cellular spend, by converging cellular and bank accounts on a single client profile and platform,” says Kleynhans. FNB also announced the introduction of the FNB Connect Unlimited Calls offer, which allows subscribers to make unlimited local calls to any network for only R399 per month. The new Unlimited Calls offer can be taken up together with the FNB ConeXis smartphone deal or any other branded mobile phone. The Unlimited offer is available to customers from 24 August 2016 while the FNB ConeXis smartphones will be available at selected FNB branches from 1 September 2016. When taking up the smartphone offer, customers will be taken through the features and benefits, including how they can manage their cellular costs. FNB has zero-rated calls when FNB Connect customers make calls to FNB’s Banking Call Centre. |
