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Lets Talk IT & Telecommunications Company has announced plans to launch Nigeria’s first instant messaging application, “Lets Talk”, by the third quarter of 2022.
The Lagos based telecoms outfit will be challenging the dominance of the likes of WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram with a local colour to alter the market for good, said Chief Operating Officer, Ms. Folashade Ayeni.
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The Lets Talk app is an end-to-encrypted platform that allows users to listen and share music, video and audio call, maintain 5,000 member group chat, seven person conference calls and file exchange of up to 2GB.
It targets to give users more for less and with a better app-experience.
Ms. Ayeni
She said the Lets Talk 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.
According to Ayeni, Lets Talk wants to give a higher sense of control to users and imbue enhanced confidence in the entire experience of instant messaging services to the benefit of customers.
Her words: “Lets 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, 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 that we could lose everything.
“So, we thought about owning our social media platform, where Nigerians can have guaranteed communications, with utmost security, which is Nigerian owned and indigenous to us and for us in Africa.”
Lets Talk plans to work closely with NITDA, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), and other agencies to ensure the successful rollout of the application as well as to guarantee its acceptability.
