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Strong mobile growth predicted for sub-Saharan Africa – GSMA

Paula Gilbert
9/30/2020

Nearly half a billion people subscribe to mobile services in sub-Saharan Africa with 4.3% annual growth predicted until 2025.

Orange, Google launch $30 smartphone for Africa

Paula Gilbert
9/29/2020

Orange CEO Stéphane Richard told the GSMA Thrive Africa conference that the telco is partnering with Google to launch a low-cost smartphone aimed at the African market.

Hot startup of the month: Kenya's MPost

Tom Jackson
9/25/2020

MPost, a Kenyan digital addressing company, is providing those without physical addresses a way to receive mail using a virtual address linked to their mobile number.

SA, Kenya and Nigeria hit by millions of cyberattacks

Connecting Africa News
9/23/2020

South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria have seen 28 million malware attacks and 102 million potentially unwanted application detections so far in 2020 says Kaspersky.

Somalis using mobile money more, but sending smaller amounts

Connecting Africa News
9/18/2020

Hormuud Telecom says that between April and August 2020 transactions on its mobile money platform have increased, but the value of transactions has dropped.

Telkom brings KaiOS smart feature phones to Kenya

Connecting Africa News
9/16/2020

Kenya is the latest country to roll out popular KaiOS–enabled smart feature phones with Telkom Kenya this week launching a new device.

Safaricom to launch M-Pesa 'super app'

Paula Gilbert
9/15/2020

Safaricom is launching an M-Pesa 'super app' which will let SMEs create their own business apps within the mobile money ecosystem, according to CIO, George Njuguna, who was speaking at East Africa Com.

Comment: Poor Social Environment - UberDOST8022 - 9/11/2020

Comment: Even software engineers dream of mobile airtime theft. - UberDOST8022 - 9/11/2020

View4all.tv targets education in SA with zero data costs

Paula Gilbert
9/11/2020

View4all.tv founder Gregory Sheppard chats to Connecting Africa about the free content delivery platform providing both educational and entertainment content in SA with no data costs.

Egypt smartphone market bucks COVID-19 decline trends

Connecting Africa News
9/10/2020

Smartphone sales in Egypt were not as badly impacted by COVID-19 as expected, according to IDC.

Vodafone hails $28m ambulance taxi program expansion

Connecting Africa News
9/10/2020

The Vodafone Foundation has committed $28 million to expand its M-Mama 'ambulance taxi' program beyond Tanzania, taking it to Lesotho next.

Ozow zero-rates SA mobile payment platform

Paula Gilbert
9/9/2020

Digital payments company Ozow has announced new mobile payments solutions for the South African market and is zero-rating data costs for users.

Nigeria sees mobile subs boom – Ericsson

Paula Gilbert
9/8/2020

According to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report stats, Africa added 12 million new mobile subscriptions during Q2 2020, half of which were in Nigeria.

MTN Ghana goes to top court to resolve dominance case

Connecting Africa News
9/7/2020

MTN Ghana is taking its fight against the decision by the Ghanaian regulator to declare it a significant market power (SMP) to the country's highest court.

Comment: 9ja - UberDOST8022 - 9/5/2020

Mobile airtime theft rife in Africa, say experts

Connecting Africa News
9/4/2020

Mobile malware and airtime theft are more common in Africa than previously imagined with 1.7 million infected mobile subscribers in South Africa alone.

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