Mobile and Telecoms
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September 23, 2016 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Vodacom has signed lease agreements with third party network infrastructure providers Fibrehoods, Openserve, Century City Connect, Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa to deliver Vodacom Fibre products. Vodacom customers will now have access to the Vodacom Fibre services through these providers, including Vodacom Fibre Broadband, Vodacom Fibre Fixed Voice and...
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September 22, 2016 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Opinion, Top Stories •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Smartphone use in high growth markets like India and Africa differs from developed markets. This is because there are a very different set of constraints in operation, most of which stem from cost and infrastructure. If businesses want to deliver successful...
September 22, 2016 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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With voice revenues in terminal decline and future data revenue models uncertain, Africa’s telcos have to expand their value-added services portfolios. “On-demand entertainment and infotainment present the next big opportunity for telco VAS business...
September 22, 2016 •
Gadgets and Gaming, Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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TECNO Mobile has recently unveiled its latest offering, the TECNO PHANTOM 5. The PHANTOM 5 features such as 3GB RAM, fingerprint Touch ID and full metal body casing. A premium smartphone fully optimized for work and leisure, the PHANTOM 5 has a MediaTek...
September 22, 2016 •
Finance, Mobile and Telecoms, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Mukuru has partnered with EcoCash, a Zimbabwean mobile money provider, to offer a quick and easy way of sending money to Zimbabwe. The partnership was facilitated and structured by Cassava, a wholly-owned financial technology (FinTech) subsidiary of the...
September 21, 2016 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Online & Social, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Google South Africa has announced the launch of Google Allo to the South African market. Allo is a messaging app that works off your phone number and is available for Android and iOS mobile devices. Initially announced at the Google I/O Developer conference...
September 21, 2016 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Despite the number of reported incidents around the world related to battery cell issues in the new Galaxy Note7, Samsung SA has reported that South African customers will receive a Galaxy Note7 that offers full battery usage. Globally, in markets which the...
September 21, 2016 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Telkom and ShowMax have jointly announced a partnership to allow Showax users to purchase bolt-on packages from Telkom which would effectively zero-rate the data consumed by the streaming service. Customers also have the option to add the R99 monthly ShowMax...
September 19, 2016 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Ericsson and Google are partnering to extend the reach of Ericsson’s cloud-based MediaFirst TV Platform into the Android TV ecosystem, Google’s operating system for the set-top-box. Ericsson’s MediaFirst TV Platform will integrate with Google’s...
September 16, 2016 •
Finance, Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Tigo Cash has recently launched an innovation that allows customers to buy international airtime for friends and families in Ghana and overseas. Effective from September 13, 2016, all Tigo cash customers can purchase airtime for over 100 countries across the...
September 16, 2016 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Startups •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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MTN Business showed some appreciation for its top partners at the company’s inaugural Partnership Summit in Johannesburg this week. It is through this initiative that MTN Business is committed to strengthening its partner ecosystem and official recognition...
September 16, 2016 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Huawei Consumer Business Group (BG) South Africa yesterday announced the official opening of the first two Huawei customer service centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town. The service centres are open to customers and will provide the finest service...
September 16, 2016 •
Finance, Mobile and Telecoms, Southern Africa, Top Stories •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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MTN SA has taken a decision to decommission its Mobile Money offering due to lack of commercial viability. MTN is working with its mobile money partners to ensure that its customers are not adversely affected. Launched in 2012, the mobile money platform aimed...
September 15, 2016 •
Mobile and Telecoms •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Tech Mahindra, Mahindra Comviva, have announced the launch of “Data Revenue Booster (DRB)”. DRB allows Communication Service Providers (CSP) to open up additional revenue opportunities while delivering innovative services to users. The DRB Solution...
September 14, 2016 •
Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Nokia and Sonera, have underlined the leading role they are playing in bringing next-generation communications to market. Trials were undertaken at Sonera headquarters in Helsinki of both 5G mobile networking and new copper cable technologies capable of...
September 13, 2016 •
East Africa, Mobile and Telecoms, Satellite Communications •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Avanti Communications Group plc, a leading provider of satellite data communications services in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Bentley Walker, the largest supplier and operator of VSAT Networks outside of North America jointly announce a new...
