About Oxigen

A venture of Visionaries

Oxigen was born in July 2004, out of a vision of an Indian professional entrepreneur and a South African company.

• The Indian Founder , Mr. Pramod Saxena, has been associated with the Cellular Industry since its inception in 1994 in India. He has rich and diverse experience of pioneering grass root businesses, including Telecom, in the post liberalization era.

• The overseas partners are Microsoft Corporation, USA and Blue Label Telecom, South Africa.

• Oxigen has formed a strategic business alliance with Microsoft Corporation, USA,  which has taken equity and is a business partner, in the company. By partnering with Microsoft, Oxigen expects to expand its business rapidly in the virtual payments and distribution space using Microsoft’s Web & Mobile based technologies, as well as , getting access to Microsoft’s advertising services.

•The promoters of the 'Blue Label Telecom', a market leader in South Africa, in distribution of physical and virtual prepaid airtime. Besides operational expertise, they bring to the partnership time and market tested product technology, with a successful track record in competitive markets in South Africa and several other countries.

 

Pioneering the Mobile Recharge services in the country

In a short span of just 4 years, Oxigen has emerged as the undisputed leader in Single Point Recharge services in the country. It has pioneered the idea and execution of electronic virtual distribution of prepaid airtime, on behalf all major mobile operators.

The primary focus of Oxigen Services has been on recharge, subscriptions, billing and payments through electronic distribution.

• Oxigen handles aggregation of Recharge, Bill Payments and Subscriptions, for all leading telecom operators, Internet Service providers, Direct-to-home TV (Dish TV, Tata Sky, Big TV, airtel Digital and Sun Direct), Prepaid radio (Worldspace), Prepaid Value-added services (MobiBuzz), Railways, Airlines, Bus, Movie ticketing on a single platform.

• This Platform further Distributes these services  to Oxigen’s  Pan India Retail Network of approximately 75,000 touch points, which it intends to grow to 250,000 by 2010 .

 

Expanding services to lead the pack

Its state-of-the-art proprietary back-end technology put Oxigen in an enviable position to rapidly expand and offer services apart from just mobile recharge. This has helped Oxigen to blossom into a single, powerful platform for all payment services online as well as on the mobile phone, including bill and subscription payments, booking airline tickets, buying videos, wallpapers, ring tones, games, etc. on behalf of many companies.

Business Structure

Oxigen Services:
• Prepaid Recharge
• National Long Distance Calling Cards
• International Long Distance Calling Cards
• Telecom Bill Payments
• Travel-Airline Tickets
• Entertainment Recharge

MobiBuzz - Mobile Fun:
• Games on Mobile
• Entertainment Videos
• Fun Applications
• Wallpapers
• Ringtones
• Bollywood Clips
• Fashion Clips and Music Downloads

OxiCash:
• All Recharge Services under 'Oxigen Services'
• All value Added Services under 'MobiBuzz'
• Railway Ticketing
• Bus Tickets
• Utility Bill Payments
• Travel E-commerce
• Hotel Bookings
• Digital Entertainment
• SMS Packs
• Phone Backup
• Prepaid Conference Calling
• Astrological Consultation
• E-commerce - Shopping Portals, Matrimonial, Education and Career
• Movie and Entertainment Ticketing
• Financial/Insurance Services
• Charity Services

Diverse methods of  Dispensing/Vending
To retail its services, Oxigen uses various electronic distribution methods such as:

• Point of Sale Terminals
• PC with Internet
• GPRS Enabled Handsets  

Oxigen's IT enabled virtual distribution platform allows service providers to derive immense benefit in improving reach of their services.