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Kanagaratnam Lambotharan: Chief Enterprise Business Officer, MTN South Africa (Image source: MTNBiz)

MTN SA to root out WASPS

December 12, 2013 • Mobile and Telecoms, Southern Africa • Staff Writer • Comments (0)

South African mobile service provider MTN has introduced a Token Based Billing (TBB) to address simmering distress experienced by its customers who claim that they are being unwittingly billed for content services they have not subscribed for by unscrupulous Wireless Application Service Providers (WASPS). WASPs previously used Event Based Billing (EBB) as a...

How much is poor mobile service costing Nigeria’s consumers?

December 12, 2013 • Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories • Charlie Fripp • Comments (0)

Mobile phone users in Nigeria are losing out on N1-billion ($6.4-million) per day due to poor Quality of Service from mobile operators. This is according to Back-Up Networks Limited CEO Monday Ogbe. Ogbe relayed the facts of a study conducted by the Company...

Lagos, Nigeria. (Image source: Shutterstock)

Vodacom Business Nigeria means business on software

December 12, 2013 • Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories, West Africa • Staff Writer • Comments (0)

Vodacom Business Nigeria has introduced a SaaS solution designed to assist businesses to lower costs associated with running and maintaining software. The hosted information management solution is designed to empower business users, in operations of all...

MTN SA’s SurferLite pilot project launches

December 11, 2013 • Mobile and Telecoms, Southern Africa, Top Stories • Staff Writer • Comments (0)

MTN has introduced MTN SurferLite, a pilot project that promises to provide customers with feature phones access to internet at minimal cost. The MTN SurferLite platform is another innovative solution that allows customers easy access to relevant digital...

Bank authorities confirm mobile money increasing in popularity

December 11, 2013 • Mobile and Telecoms • Charlie Fripp • Comments (0)

Mobile money transfer, the act of transferring money from one person to another using a mobile phone, has seen an upsurge in Africa. According to Dr. Louis Kasekende, Bank of Uganda Deputy Governor, it is only going to get bigger. Dr. Kasekende revealed...

CCK Director General Francis Wangusi. (Image source: Google/youtube.com)

Kenya: authorities want more data from SIM card owners

December 11, 2013 • East Africa, Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories • Staff Writer • Comments (0)

Government and telecommunications industry regulator CCK (Communications Commission of Kenya) are scheduled to meet today to discuss revised SIM card registration regulations. It is expected that the outcomes of the meeting will be a revocation of the legal...

Billions cannot afford to get online, entrenching the digital divide and constraining economic and social progress. (image: Shutterstock)

Broadband still costs over half a month’s salary

December 9, 2013 • Mobile and Telecoms, Top Stories • Staff Writer • Comments (0)

For those living on less than US$2/day, entry-level broadband costs an average of 40% of monthly income and in many countries this figure exceeds 80% or 100%. As a result, billions cannot afford to get online, entrenching the digital divide and constraining...

WAPA Chairperson Mohammad Patel. (Image source: WAPA)

Wireless Access Providers’ Association responds to ‘South Africa Connect’

December 9, 2013 • Mobile and Telecoms • Staff Writer • Comments (0)

Members of the Wireless Access Providers’ Association of South Africa (WAPA) are uniquely positioned to assist in the achievement of the progressive broadband policy announced by the Cabinet last week. The aim of the National Broadband Policy, Strategy and...

MTN launches new campaign for enterprise market

December 9, 2013 • Mobile and Telecoms • Staff Writer • Comments (0)

MTN Group today unveiled a new Pan-African brand positioning media campaign for MTN Business, its enterprise business unit. The campaign skilfully tells the story of how integrated technology is enabling businesses and stimulating the growth of large and...

MTN has partnered with Do Media in Nigeria to allow users access to MTN DoBox (image: MTN)

MTN launches movie subscription service

December 9, 2013 • Mobile and Telecoms, West Africa • Charlie Fripp • Comments (0)

Mobile operator MTN has partnered with Do Media in Nigeria to allow users access to MTN DoBox, a subscription service that provides access to the latest and most exclusive movies on their mobile phones. “The initiative is borne out of the desire to...