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August 15, 2018 •
East Africa, Finance, Mobile and Telecoms •
Neo Sesinye •
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Digital money transfer service WorldRemit has signed a direct partnership with Safaricom to enable instant cross-border money transfers to 28.6 million M-PESA mobile money accounts in Kenya. The direct partnership marks the culmination of years of rapidly growing volumes of international money transfers to M-PESA accounts by WorldRemit users, and supports...
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August 15, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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A study conducted by data and analytics company, GlobalData reveals that by the end of 2018, a total of 43 out of 55 African countries (or 78%) will offer 4G services. In spite of this, there are a few laggards, one of them being Mozambique – a country of...
August 14, 2018 •
East Africa, Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories •
Neo Sesinye •
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Kenya’s biggest teleco Safaricom, is in the process of developing a framework that will deal with the sim card swap fraud. This comes after ongoing sim card fraud that plagued users in the country in recent months. Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore said that such...
August 12, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories •
Neo Sesinye •
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Apple the culture-changing company behind the iPod, iPhone and iPad hit another milestone on Thursday, becoming the first private-sector company to surpass $1 trillion in market value. Shares of Apple hit $207.91 in afternoon trading on Wall Street, allowing...
August 11, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories •
Neo Sesinye •
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South Korean electronics giant Samsung unveiled the new Galaxy Note 9 smartphone on Thursday, its latest effort to address flagging sales of the high-functioning gadgets. The consistent leader in the global smartphone market, Samsung nonetheless suffered a 22...
August 9, 2018 •
Internet of Things, Mobile and Telecoms, Southern Africa •
Danielle Kruger •
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As the global conservation community commemorated World Ranger Day last week, rhinos and their ranger protectors have within their reach a powerful new tool in the war against animal poaching. This Internet of Things (IoT) anti-poaching solution has been...
August 8, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Cell C has announced its fixed LTE-Advanced promotional offer bringing customers data access from less than R5 per Gigabyte. Customers can select from one of three packages to get the best value data deals. A 50GB contract for R359 per month (R7 per...
August 7, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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The National Communications Authority (NCA) in Ghana has announced that it has intervened in an dispute between Glo Mobile Ghana and Surfline Ghana. The NCA met with both Glo and Surfline to determine the details and extent of the issue. Director General of...
August 6, 2018 •
Finance, Mobile and Telecoms, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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The Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement Systems together with MTN Nigeria, sixteen banks and major mobile telcos have partnered to relaunch mCash. First launched in 2016, mCASH is a mobile payment platform for making low-value retail payments designed to extend...
August 3, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories •
Neo Sesinye •
Comments Off on Huawei overtakes Apple as second biggest smartphone seller
In a not so shocking revelation, Chinese based tech firm Huawei has overtaken Apple to become the world’s second-biggest smartphone seller, this is according to new June quater data from market research firms. Market intelligence firms IDC, IHS Markit...
August 3, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
Comments Off on Vodacom to connect over 200 new rural network sites
As part of its accelerated rural coverage programme, Vodacom has announced that it will launch over 200 new rural network sites across all nine provinces in the year ahead. This comes after the company extended its South African rural coverage by 101 villages...
July 31, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Opinion, Top Stories •
Neo Sesinye •
Comments Off on Why identity verification matters for mobile operators in Africa
According to the 2017 Mobile Economy Report of the GSM Association, Africa currently has 420 million unique mobile subscribers representing a 43 percent penetration. By 2020, the Report predicts that 500 million Africans will be mobile subscribers, making it...
July 30, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Opinion, Top Stories •
Neo Sesinye •
Comments Off on Future cities, what’s the rush?
When cities first came into being, they were either near natural resources, or transport routes, or in an area that might have been easy to defend. Naturally, they evolved over time as infrastructure became necessary to support inhabitants and as...
July 29, 2018 •
General, Mobile and Telecoms, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Danielle Kruger •
Comments Off on KT Corporation builds digital system for national identification in Tanzania
KT Corporation, South Korean telecommunications company, completed a new digital system for national identification in Tanzania, marking major progress for the company in Africa as KT continues to tap into new business opportunities throughout the continent....
July 27, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Opinion •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
Comments Off on Harnessing AI to transform customer experience in telecoms
Telecommunications operators are generally very large enterprises, serving millions of retail consumers and thousands of enterprise / corporate clients. The sheer size of the customer base can make it very difficult to provide exceptional customer experiences...
July 25, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Opinion •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
Comments Off on Why settle for megabits per second when you can cruise along at gigabits per second?
Some of us still remember the early days of home internet access in the 90s when access was a blistering 9600 bps, yes – that’s bits per second. It would have taken years to download enough data to fill today’s standard hard drives with information....
