Telecoms, Page 43
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Wed, November 20th, 06:00 · Selipha Kihagi
MTN Uganda offers life insurance cover to customers
MTN Uganda, in partnership with insurance companies AON and Jubilee Insurance, has introduced a new policy to its mobile money customers in a bid to provide affordable cover. → Read more
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Tue, November 19th, 20:00 · Richard Cutcher
Ericsson boosts MTN’s mobile money services
MTN Rwanda has integrated its Mobile Money platform with Ericsson’s Converged Wallet m-commerce solution to ease implementation of new services and offers. → Read more
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Tue, November 19th, 13:30 · Gabriella Mulligan
Vodacom launches BB Z30 in SA
Vodacom has launched the BlackBerry Z30 smartphone for the first time in South Africa, making the device available for purchase or on contract. → Read more
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Tue, November 19th, 12:30 · Richard Cutcher
ISPA backs MWEB in Telkom case
South Africa’s Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) has given public backing to MWEB in its legal action against the part state-owned provider Telkom. → Read more
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Tue, November 19th, 11:30 · Winfred Kuria
NCC to auction 2.3GHz spectrum licence
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is aiming to auction its 2.3GHz spectrum licence in January 2014, three years since its last auction in the telecommunications industry. → Read more
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Tue, November 19th, 10:30 · Nick Sato
Safaricom introduces East Africa roaming bundles
Safaricom, Kenya’s biggest mobile network provider, has introduced a new roaming bundle for its subscribers travelling across the region, which could lower the current high charges. → Read more
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Tue, November 19th, 09:30 · Richard Cutcher
Knott-Craig Sr in hospital after stroke
Alan Knott-Craig Sr, chief executive officer (CEO) of South Africa’s third mobile operator Cell C, has suffered a “minor stroke”. → Read more
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Tue, November 19th, 08:00 · Nick Sato
Airtel targets more subscribers with Radio Express partnership
Airtel has announced a partnership with Radio Express to launch weekly shows on local radio stations across 17 African countries. → Read more
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Mon, November 18th, 19:00 · Selipha Kihagi
Malawians to pay for fuel services using Airtel Money
Airtel has partnered Total Malawi to offer customers an opportunity to pay for fuelling services through their mobile phones, using the Airtel Money service at any Total filling station in the country. → Read more
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Mon, November 18th, 14:00 · Selipha Kihagi
Airtel Uganda to launch new service for savings groups
Airtel is partnering the Grameen Foundation to introduce a new project that will provide mobile financial services to women’s savings groups in Uganda as part of its efforts to reduce the gender gap in mobile access. → Read more
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Mon, November 18th, 12:30 · Nick Sato
M-Pesa bags Global Money Transfer Service Award in Dubai
Safaricom’s M-Pesa has been awarded the best operator-led mobile money service at the sixth Mobile Money Global Awards held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). → Read more
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Mon, November 18th, 12:00 · Richard Cutcher
Telkom admits legal fears over near $600k loan to suspended CFO
Telkom, South Africa’s part state-owned fixed-line provider, has conceded a ZAR6 million (US$589,800) loan to its now suspended chief financial officer (CFO) to help him buy shares in the company may have been illegal. → Read more
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Mon, November 18th, 09:30 · Richard Cutcher
Telkom reports 41% profit increase
Telkom Group, South Africa’s part-state owned and dominant fixed-line provider, has reported a 41.1 per cent increase in profit and put down its success, in part, to the drop in mobile termination rates. → Read more
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Sat, November 16th, 12:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
Africa should be optimistic about connectivity, still work to do – panelists
Africa should be optimistic regarding the current state of connectivity as undersea connectivity is good, although there is work to do on terrestrial connections, according to panelists at AfricaCom. → Read more
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Sat, November 16th, 08:00 · Nick Sato
75% of Kenyan adults use mobile money
The proportion of Kenyan adults using mobile money services has increased to 75 per cent, according to a report by the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC). → Read more
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Fri, November 15th, 17:30 · Gabriella Mulligan
Telecom Egypt profit nears $100m for Q3
Telecom Egypt has released its financial results for the third quarter of 2013, revealing a EGP650 million (US$94.3 million) in net profit for the quarter, while revenues grew significantly. → Read more
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Fri, November 15th, 17:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
ICASA must speak on white space spectrum – Hart
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) must regulate on white space spectrum, as developing white space technologies will benefit future generations, according to Arno Hart, project manager at the Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa (TENET). → Read more
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Fri, November 15th, 15:00 · Gabriella Mulligan
Telkom confirms Scarcella appointment
South Africa’s part state-owned operator Telkom has appointed ex-Vodacom executive Enzo Scarcella as chief marketing officer (CMO), one of a string of new management appointments. → Read more
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Fri, November 15th, 13:30 · Gabriella Mulligan
Regulator framework needed for African fibre rollout – panelists
African regulators must create a framework for the rollout of terrestrial fibre in order to support an increase in high speed broadband penetration across the continent, according to panelists speaking at AfricaCom 2013 in Cape Town yesterday (Thursday). → Read more
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Fri, November 15th, 13:00 · Nick Sato
Attorney general denies involvement in Telkom Kenya share dilution deal
Githu Muigai, Kenya’s attorney general (AG), has disowned the controversial sale of Telkom Kenya to France Telecom, which saw government share in Kenya’s oldest telecommunications company diluted to 30 per cent. → Read more
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