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Two Companies Approved To Run South Sudan’s First Mobile Money Platform, m-Gurush
Theventure is a joint partnership between South Sudan’s Trinity Technologies Limited, a local tech firm, and Zain Telcoms South Sudan.
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- Finance, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya Regulators Warn MPs on Safaricom Split Bill
The issue of competition in Kenyan market is an issue politicians and regulators have regularly investigated over the last two years, with calls to spin-out mobile money units nothing new.
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- Finance, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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MTN, Sanlam Insurtech Partnership May Face Stumbling Blocks
Arthur Goldstuck, founder of World Wide Worx and ICT analyst, points out that with mobile money having failed repeatedly in SA, mobile insurance offers no guarantee of success, in a country with a large number of uninsured populations.
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- Finance, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Return of Michael Joseph at Safaricom
Following his appointment by the board as the interim CEO, Kenyans on social media argued that the company should have appointed a Kenyan, with one of the firm’s executives trending on Twitter.
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- Finance, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ethiopia to Issue Two Telecom Licenses, Minority Stake in Monopoly
Ethiopia’s telecoms industry is considered the big prize in a push to liberalize the country’s economy launched last year by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed because of its huge protected market serving a population of around 100 million.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India’s MobiKwik Mobile Wallet To Go Global
The partnership will enable the app to offer international mobile recharge, rewards and airtime credit services in more than 150 nations across some 550 mobile operators.
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- Finance, Telecommunications
- Region
- South Asia
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M-Pesa, Airtel Money Set for Split in New Bill in Kenya
Safaricom, Airtel and Telkom Kenya will be required to split their telecommunications business from their mobile money transfer and lending units if a Bill set to be presented for debate in Parliament is passed into law.
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- Finance, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nigeria and South Africa’s Economic Struggles Are Starting to Hurt African Phone Sales
Mobile phone shipments to Africa’s two largest economies for the first quarter of 2019 do not make good reading for phone makers and it’s not looking great for the current quarter.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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