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Fri, January 11th, 17:19 · Gabriella Mulligan

Vodacom bids for Zambian mobile licence

South Africa’s Vodacom has submitted a bid for Zambia’s fourth mobile operating licence, as the Zambian government takes steps to revoke a legal instrument blocking the entry of further operators. → Read more
Fri, January 11th, 10:55 · Brandon Gregory

UPDATE: BlackBerry connectivity problem in Europe affects SA users

Angry South African BlackBerry users have reported connectivity issues via social media sites, querying why their BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) has ceased. → Read more
Fri, January 11th, 09:59 · Brandon Gregory

Vodacom’s Power Hour price increase explained

The doubling in price of Vodacom’s returning Power Hour promotion has been attributed to the service being available for an extra two hours each day. → Read more
Fri, January 11th, 08:44 · Tom Jackson

Apple denies low-cost smartphone rumours

Tech giant Apple has denied it is set to develop a cheaper iPhone, after it was reported that the company was to launch a phone specifically targeted at developing markets. → Read more
Fri, January 11th, 07:38 · Gabriella Mulligan

High demand for iPhone 5 leaves South Africans in limbo

Demand for the iPhone 5 has exceeded stocks available in stores, leaving South Africans hoping to buy the smartphone disappointed. → Read more
Thu, January 10th, 19:08 · Brandon Gregory

Global mobile banking users could reach one billion by 2017

A Juniper Research study has revealed one billion people will have used their mobile phones for Internet banking purposes by 2017. → Read more
Thu, January 10th, 15:08 · Paul Adepoju

Motivational SMS’s don’t improve HIV/AIDS therapy adherence – Cameroon study

Sending weekly motivational text messages has been found to do little in ensuring patients living with HIV/AIDS adhere to antiretroviral treatment (ART), according to a study carried out in Cameroon. → Read more
Thu, January 10th, 14:30 · Gabriella Mulligan

RIM to launch six new smartphones in 2013

Research in Motion (RIM) will be launching up to six smartphones covering a range of price categories over the course of the year, in a bid to increase its flagging market share. → Read more
Thu, January 10th, 14:03 · Kamau Mbote

Kenya’s Women Enterprise Fund to issue loans through phones

Issuing loans through mobile phones will ease processing as well as repayment with the default rate increasing, says Women Enterprise Fund’s chief executive Samuel Wainaina. → Read more
Thu, January 10th, 13:09 · Brandon Gregory

No progress on Zimbabwe’s telecom companies privatisation

There has been no progress of note in the privatisation of Zimbabwe’s telecoms companies, which has been recognised as a possible strategy in a bid to help the ailing financial status of the country. → Read more
Thu, January 10th, 10:34 · Tefo Mohapi

Q&A: “We are still a major player in mobile,” says Tom Erskine, Nokia Head of Smart Devices for India, Middle East & Africa

Nokia have had well publicised financial woes since Stephen Elop took over as Chief Executive, including shutdowns in Finland and thousands of employees being laid off worldwide. But the company soldiers on and, if we are to believe Elop, is on the comeback trail. → Read more
Thu, January 10th, 10:09 · Elly Okutoyi

Yu Mobile seeks SIM card registration extension to avert revenue loss

Kenyan mobile network operator Yu Mobile is lobbying for the extension of the SIM card registration deadline, claiming that the directive to have them switch off unregistered cards will affect its revenues. → Read more
Thu, January 10th, 09:46 · Nanine Steenkamp

Award winning app developer visits Cape Town

German subscription application Aboalarm’s developer Stefan Neubig, currently on South African soil, has told HumanIPO about his journey in the app world and the possibility of an African rollout. → Read more
Thu, January 10th, 09:38 · HumanIPO

Intel to launch low-cost smartphone in Kenya

Chip giant Intel is intending to plunge deeper into low-end smartphone manufacturing, with HumanIPO learning that it is set to launch a low-cost phone in Kenya in the coming weeks. → Read more
Thu, January 10th, 09:20 · Vincent Matinde

Kenya’s mLab announces applications for mobile training

mLab East Africa, a Kenya-based incubation hub for mobile-oriented startups, has announced its intake for the 2013 training to be held in the capital Nairobi. → Read more
Wed, January 9th, 13:15 · HumanIPO

Zimbabwe’s Econet to own conventional bank shares

Zimbabwe’s leading mobile operator Econet is taking over local bank shares on the stock exchange, positioning mobile money as a growing threat to conventional banks in the country. → Read more
Wed, January 9th, 11:30 · HumanIPO

US$10 billion LTE revenue predicted by 2018

Greater opportunities for independent Long-Term Evolution (LTE) networks are predicted as part of the estimated LTE compound annual growth rate of 43 percent for the next five years worldwide, says a freshly released report by 4G Market. → Read more
Wed, January 9th, 10:25 · Elly Okutoyi

CCK powerless to prosecute unregistered SIM card holders

Kenya’s communications regulator the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) has no powers to prosecute deviant mobile phone operators and unregistered SIM card holders as the new law warranting such actions is still at the Attorney General’s office awaiting clearance. → Read more
Wed, January 9th, 10:09 · Tom Jackson

Apple to roll-out low-cost iPhone for emerging markets

Reports suggest that Apple is developing a new low-cost iPhone for China and other emerging markets to be launched in the second half of this year, as the company looks to wrestle control of the smartphone market from Samsung. → Read more
Wed, January 9th, 07:39 · HumanIPO

Ugandan mobile money full of fraud

Despite the easy access to finances and a new gateway of trading, mobile money seems to have paved an easy way of swindling, causing more fraud than benefit for Ugandan consumers. → Read more