Telecoms
Aug 25,
2016
First National Bank (FNB) has become the first South African financial services company to launch its own branded Android-powered smartphones. The FNB phones, which were unveiled on Tuesday in Cape…
Aug 22,
2016
MTN Group today announced that it intends to implement a new R9.9 billion Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Transaction called MTN Zakhele Futhi, when its existing special purpose empowerment vehicle,…
Aug 21,
2016
Financial experts have argued that for one to be wealthy, more than one source of income is required. But while many people are willing to engage in more than one…
Aug 16,
2016
MallforAfrica (MFA), Africa's largest e-commerce company which provides African consumers access to billions of items to purchase from the US and UK, announced that its Nigerian customers who pay through…
Aug 10,
2016
Mauritius has been ranked at position one in Africa in terms of using information and communication technologies to provide services in the public sector (e-government), a report of the United…
Aug 09,
2016
Huawei unveiled its MBB (Mobile Broadband) 2020 Strategy for Africa, during the opening day of the GSMA Mobile 360-Africa event, outlining a new mobile broadband blueprint for the next five…
Aug 08,
2016
New legislation will allow Zimbabwe's police to seize smartphones, laptops and other “gadgets” to prevent people from communicating via social media. Several demonstrations and a one-day national strike were organised…
Aug 06,
2016
A Grade 12 learner from Abraham Iyambo Senior Secondary School, a rural school in Ohangwena Region, has invented a SIM-less mobile phone that does not need airtime to make calls.…
Aug 05,
2016
Africa's biggest mobile phone operator MTN Group Ltd reported a $357 million half-year loss on Friday and cut dividend payouts, after a hefty regulatory fine in Nigeria and underperformance in…
Aug 01,
2016
Inside a packed Vodafone Group Plc store in the Zambian capital of Lusaka, a group of the city’s tech-savvy students wait in line for wireless modems they hope will transform…
Jul 31,
2016
ICT Minister Supa Mandiwanzira says government is blocking the entry of bigger, better resourced international mobile networks to protect existing local companies and encourage their growth, but is disappointed with…
Jul 29,
2016
The government has blocked 1.82 million counterfeit International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers since the exercise began last month, with the control against the use of fake devices in the…
Jul 26,
2016
Safaricom has reduced roaming charges for calls and data by up to 99 per cent for over 200 networks across the world following successful negotiations with its global network of…
Jul 26,
2016
More than half a billion people across Africa are now subscribed to mobile services as the continent continues to migrate rapidly to mobile broadband networks, reveals a new GSMA study.…
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