Mobile, Page 35
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Fri, February 14th, 09:00 · Chris Udemans
Vodacom launches vouchercloud app in SA
Vodacom South Africa has announced the launch of vouchercloud, a smartphone app that uses location information to find local deals. → Read more
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Fri, February 14th, 07:00 · Paul Adepoju
Easy Taxi and Samsung offer users in Nigeria free rides
Nigerian taxi hailing app Easy Taxi has partnered Samsung Nigeria to give customers in Lagos free taxi rides today and tomorrow. → Read more
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Fri, February 14th, 06:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Vodacom Tanzania launches morning voice promotion
Vodacom Tanzania has launched its Hello Tanzania campaign, providing its customers with one free minute of calling time every morning. → Read more
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Thu, February 13th, 19:00 · Paul Adepoju
Ghana’s BoxBuzz to launch in Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, SA and China
Plans are underway to introduce Ghana’s BoxBuzz, an SMS alert system that informs owners of Post Office Box addresses when they receive a letter, to Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and China. → Read more
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Thu, February 13th, 13:00 · Chris Udemans
Online banking, mobile OS malware rising
Online banking and mobile operating system (OS) malware saw a marked increase during 2013, according to a TrendLabs study. → Read more
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Thu, February 13th, 12:20 · Susan Mwenesi
ZTE courts Kenyan government on cloud, LTE technology
China’s ZTE Corporation is currently in talks with the Kenyan government in an effort to provide the latter with cloud computing and LTE services geared towards effective service delivery. → Read more
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Thu, February 13th, 10:20 · Chris Udemans
Millicom sees 8% revenue growth
Millicom Africa has reported an eight per cent increase in revenue in the final quarter of 2013 and an eleven per cent growth in mobile customers. → Read more
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Thu, February 13th, 07:00 · Chris Udemans
MEA mobile data traffic growth to be highest globally
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) is forecast to experience mobile data traffic growth rates of 77 per cent by the end of 2017, the highest rate in any region, according to a Cisco study. → Read more
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Wed, February 12th, 17:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Mobile is a moneymaker – Mobile East Africa
Mobile is a profitable business as long as aggregation of all that pertains to it, such as consumers, markets and employees, takes place alongside other factors such as the addressing of security concerns, according to participants at the ongoing Mobile East Africa 2014 event in Nairobi. → Read more
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Wed, February 12th, 15:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Mobile is the way of the future – Ahonen
Mobile is clearly the way of the future, given PC companies are now going mobile in one way or another and governments are angling their services towards mobile, according to mobile expert Tomi Ahonen. → Read more
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Wed, February 12th, 14:20 · Paul Adepoju
Airtel launches free life insurance product for subscribers in Zambia
Airtel Zambia is launching a free life insurance product in partnership with Focus General Insurance Zambia Limited and MicroEnsure, available for all Airtel customers that top up with a minimum of ZMWK10 (US$1.80) every month. → Read more
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Wed, February 12th, 12:20 · Paul Adepoju
Nigeria considers ban on sale of SIM cards
Nigeria may place a ban on the sale of new SIM cards by telecoms companies as a way of compelling the networks to increase their investment in improving the quality of the services by halting the soaring numbers of telecoms subscribers in Nigeria. → Read more
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Wed, February 12th, 11:00 · Susan Mwenesi
Mobile East Africa 2014 kicks off in Nairobi
The rebranded Mobile East Africa 2014 kicked off today in Nairobi, bringing together industry players seeking to expand mobile data usage and drive monetisation through industry collaboration. → Read more
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Wed, February 12th, 09:40 · Paul Adepoju
Nokia unveils Lumia models in Nigeria
Nokia has officially unveiled its latest 6-inch Lumia smartphones in Nigeria, the flagship Nokia Lumia 1520 and the more affordable Lumia 1320. → Read more
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Tue, February 11th, 19:00 · Susan Mwenesi
M-Pesa, MoneyGram in money transfer service agreement
M-Pesa - through its parent company Vodafone - and global money transfer and payment services firm MoneyGram have signed an agreement enabling consumers to transfer funds directly from around 200 countries to the millions of M-Pesa users → Read more
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Tue, February 11th, 18:20 · Gabriella Mulligan
Zambia to construct 169 GSM sites this year
The US$24 million construction of 169 GSM sites across rural Zambia will be completed by the end of 2014 bringing mobile connectivity to over 200,000 citizens, according to the country’s president Michael Sata. → Read more
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Tue, February 11th, 17:40 · Tom Jackson
PIVOT East 2014 applications open
Applications are now open for the fourth edition of mobile startup competition PIVOT East 2014, which will be held in Nairobi, Kenya on June 24 and 25. → Read more
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Tue, February 11th, 17:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
MTN to challenge ICASA over MTRs
South Africa’s second mobile operator MTN is to challenge the new mobile termination rates (MTRs) announced recently and has initiated legal discussions with the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA). → Read more
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Tue, February 11th, 16:20 · Tom Jackson
NetOne blames SPB for lack of competitiveness
Zimbabwean state-owned mobile operator NetOne has blamed the fact it has to procure goods and service from the State Procurement Board (SPB) for its lack of competitiveness in the market. → Read more
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Tue, February 11th, 14:20 · Susan Mwenesi
Paynet merges PesaPoint network with Pep Intermedius
Kenyan payments provider Paynet has merged its PesaPoint agent network with that of Pep Intermedius, aimed at growing the PesaPoint brand and expanding its network → Read more
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