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October 15, 2018 •
East Africa, Mobile and Telecoms, Southern Africa, Top Stories, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Silicon Industries Corporation (SICO), Egypt’s first smartphone maker is set to expand to the rest of Africa by the end of 2018 or early 2019. SICO which already exports to the Gulf and aims to start selling phones in Kenya, Morocco, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Nigeria, Mozambique and Ghana, said Mahmoud Ali, [&hellip...
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October 15, 2018 •
East Africa, Mobile and Telecoms •
Neo Sesinye •
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Telkom Kenya has renewed calls for rival Safaricom be declared a dominant player, reports Citizen News. CEO Aldo Mareuse also sought to allay fears that it was planning to make staff redundant on consulting firm McKinsey’s recommendation. Safaricom holds...
October 15, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories •
Darryl Linington •
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From 16 October 2018 MTN will be bringing back Mahala Calls, as part of the MTN Zone offering – just in time for long summer days and holiday trips. MTN knows how important it is to stay in touch with loved ones and is always looking at ways to make...
October 12, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Opinion •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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With multinational cloud service providers investing in South Africa and other infrastructure providers expanding data centre operations across Africa, the hyper-availability future is looking bright for the continent. This has resulted in an evolving...
October 11, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories •
Darryl Linington •
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The final shortlist for the 4th AppsAfrica.com Innovation Awards have been announced. The Awards celebrate the best in mobile and tech from across Africa with winners announced in Cape Town on November 12th, 2018. The annual Awards attracted over 300...
October 10, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories •
Darryl Linington •
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With the festive season around the corner, Cell C is extending its free data offer to watch the premium entertainment streaming service, Black, until the end of February 2019. The free data is available on any of Cell C’s prepaid or contract plans including...
October 10, 2018 •
Gadgets and Gaming, Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories •
Neo Sesinye •
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OnePlus has announced the launch day for the upcoming OnePlus 6T smartphone. On October 30, the company will be hosting a launch event with featured slogan, “Unlock The Speed,” at 11am EDT in New York. The Chinese phone maker teased the event on...
October 10, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms •
Darryl Linington •
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Cell C has extended its ShoutOut social bundles promotion until the end of January 2019. “Customers have really seen the value in our ShoutOut bundles. With the holiday season coming up, we have decided to extend the promotion to ensure that customers are...
October 9, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Airtel Nigeria has announced a partnership with Phase 3 Telecom subsidiary, Coverage Broadband to launch the 3flix mobile TV service in Nigeria. With this partnership, customers who subscribe to a special, bundle data plan on Airtel will now have unfettered...
October 9, 2018 •
Gadgets and Gaming, Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories •
Neo Sesinye •
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LG has finally unveiled the new V40 ThinQ flagship smartphone – this is their fifth phone in just under a year. After the V30, V30S ThinQ, V35 and G7 ThinQ comes the V40 ThinQ, the company’s new flagship with a twist – it features five cameras. The LG...
October 8, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Southern Africa •
Danielle Kruger •
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Paratus has successfully concluded the first phase of the upgrades to its Mobile LTE Data network. The operator has confirmed that phase two will commence during November 2018 when the equipment arrives from the vendor manufacturing line. The upgrade has...
October 8, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories •
Darryl Linington •
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Experience the latest BBM version for Android, which is also coming soon for iOS. In this latest BBM release, as revealed by the company, you’ll enjoy the expanded experience of customising chat background, BBM Desktop (Android only), a new Album Tab in...
October 8, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories •
Darryl Linington •
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Telkom announced the inclusion of free YouTube as the latest addition to its FreeMe prepaid bundles. This is one of the benefits that comes with Telkom’s latest summer campaign aptly themed Summer of More. Customers on Telkom’s FreeMe Post-paid are still...
October 6, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Southern Africa, Startups •
Danielle Kruger •
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Following the recent announcement of South African tech startup RapidDeploy’s partnership with multinational telecommunications company AT&T, RapidDeploy has announced an alliance with APD Communications to provide a complete hosted solution for control...
October 5, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms •
Darryl Linington •
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MTN contract customers, according to the firm, can now enjoy free data access to social media, music and video streaming with the recently launched Entertainment Pass bundles. The Entertainment Pass gives customers, on select price plans, access to Facebook,...
October 5, 2018 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Online & Social, Southern Africa •
Danielle Kruger •
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The MTN Business App of the Year Awards is in full swing. The intensive judging process that concluded last week will culminate with the winners, in various categories, being announced in Johannesburg on 11 October 2018. The judging panel, made up of business...
