Airtel Africa’s AI-powered spam alert service detects over 205m SMS in 6 months |24 September 2025

Airtel Africa’s AI-powered spam alert service detects over 205m SMS in 6 months

More than 205 million spam SMS messages were detected by Airtel Africa’s pioneering Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered spam detection service, Spam Alert in 13 of its markets over the last six months.

The Spam Alert Service, which is available to all subscribers at no cost, identifies and prefixes the SMS with ‘SPAM Alert’ and provides real-time updates with the immediate impact being the elimination of the need to download additional applications to manage spam.

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