Telecoms giant Orange has partnered with Smart Africa to enhance digital information and communication traffic in the African continent. In support of Africa's digital agenda, Orange has announced the creation of two new international voice points of presence (PoP) in Lagos, Nigeria, as well as the hosting of roaming data ...
Orange has partnered with Google to launch Sanza, an exclusive low budget 4G. Android smartphone. The device will retail around $30 an ultra-affordable price point intended to make it the most accessible on the market with the goal of driving digital inclusion and providing more people access to mobile internet. ...
Telco company, Orange, has partnered with NSIA to launch Orange Bank Africa in Abidjan and Côte d’Ivoire. Orange Bank Africa will offer customers a variety of savings and micro-credit products which they can access anytime via their mobile phones. This move aims to serve the larger unbanked population that are ...
Orange has partnered with the National Distance Learning Centre to facilitate access to educational content on smartphones in Africa in a move expected to help hundreds of thousands of African students access high-quality educational content from the best international universities and training centres. The platform will allow students, teachers or individuals ...
French telco Orange Group has launched its new banking offer in mainland France. This 100% mobile-based offer dubbed Orange Bank will offer free real-time balances, mobile payment and a virtual adviser that is available 24-hours a day, 7-days a week. The telco says the Orange Bank is 100% mobile and ...
Orange has officially launched its brand in Sierra Leone after completing the acquisition of Airtel Sierra Leone in July 2016 with plans to modernize and expand its coverage and quality of its network, and voice and data services. With seven million people, Sierra Leone is a significant growth market for Orange and the ...
Telkom Kenya is set to roll out free Wi-Fi in 1,160 Constituency Incubation Hubs, in a just concluded multi-million deal that will see the once struggling telco get back to its knees. The deal will see the firm install Wi-Fi in government-funded Constituency Incubation Hubs in the 290 constituencies across ...
Orange Digital Ventures is participating in a round of fund-raising of 11 million euros in FAMOCO alongside d’Idinvest, Hi Inov, SNCF Digital Ventures, BNP Paribas Développement, BPI-Ambition Numérique and business angels. The funding follows two other rounds in 2013 and 2015 during which the start-up raised 1 million euros and ...
Orange Money and Vivo Energy have signed a deal that will see Orange customers have access to a network of over 1,000 Shell service stations to transact in Botswana, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Senegal and Tunisia. The services - already available in Mali, Cote d’Ivoire and ...
Starting with the Total Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Gabon in January 2017, Orange has extended its sponsorship with the Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) to include the 2019 tournament in Cameroon, the 2021 tournament in Ivory Coast and the 2023 tournament in Guinea in an eight-year sponsorship dal. ...
Orange will replace the Méditel brand which has 14.2 million customer making it the second largest number of customers within the Group’s Middle East and African footprint, after Orange Egypt. Meditel contributes close to 10% of revenues in this region and was formed in 1999 offering both fixed and mobile ...
Orange Digital Ventures recently invested in PayJoy, a digital platform that allows people with limited or no access to credit to pay for a smartphone in regular installments serving 110 million customers in Africa and the Middle East. This investment comes as part of PayJoy’s Series A-funding round alongside several ...
Orange announces today that, together with its subsidiary Orange Côte d’Ivoire, it has completed the acquisition of 100% of the mobile operator Airtel in Burkina Faso after it signed an agreement with Bharti Airtel International in January 2016. Bruno Mettling, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Orange group and Chairman ...
Orange Money has partnered with Aleda, a cashless payment and money transfer firm to bolster money transfer between France and Africa, on its network. Set to benefit Orange Money customers in the Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal and France, customers will be able to transfer funds via their mobile phone ...
Living companies and governments know that the youthful customer or the youth vote matters if they have to remain relevant or in power for long, and that's what Safaricom is doing. In a move to consolidate its market share and guarantee itself a future, Safaricom has today launched a youthful ...
Orange Business Services, the B2B division of the Orange Group has established a new sales office in Nigeria in addition to the existing customer support activities in the country to support senior IT decision makers with strategies to grasp the market opportunities being brought by digital transformation. The potential for ...
Orange is acquiring assets in Francophone Africa, regrouping its mobile network operations as well as its device business. The firm has said it has completed the acquisition of 100% of the mobile operator Tigo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), one of the largest mobile market in Central ...
Orange has completed the acquisition of 100% of Cellcom, Liberia’s leading mobile operator, through its subsidiary Orange Côte d’Ivoire, less than three months after signing the acquisition agreement with Cellcom Telecommunications Limited. Orange has obtained all the official approbations necessary to complete the transaction. Cellcom Liberia has 1.4 million customers ...
After launching a similar service in Mali and Cameroun in January and August 2015 respectively, Ecobank and Orange have extended the partnership to their customers in Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea Conakry and Niger to further deepend financial inclusion in Africa. Thierry Millet, Director of Orange Money, Mobile Payment and Contactless said, ...
Orange today announced it has entered into a firm agreement with Cellcom Telecommunications Limited to acquire, through its subsidiary Orange Côte d’Ivoire, 100% of Cellcom’s Liberia subsidiary, the leading mobile operator in Liberia, with the strongest market commercial momentum. Orange will provide its marketing expertise and world-class technical capability to ...
Orange has launched the ACE cable in Cotonou, Benin and Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain as part of its second phase of deployment of the ACE submarine cable, which now serves 18 countries: France, Portugal, the Canary Islands (Spain), Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, ...
Orange is launching the call for applications for the 5th edition of the Orange African Social Venture Prize to encourage innovative start-up projects which help to accelerate development on the African continent. The prize will recognize three projects with grants of 10,000, 15,000 and 25,000 euros, along with six months ...
Orange has announced the winners of this year’s Data for Development (D4D) Challenge in Senegal which ran from 2014 to April 2015 in conjunction with Sonatel and Orange under the patronage of the Senegalese Ministry of Higher Education and Research. Sonatel extracted its anonymised data samples and made it available ...
With the intention of helping small businesses deliver better customer service, Orange has announced that it will release its SMS API by beginning of April. With the new service, one will be able to send validation codes to customers to confirm an advert on a classified ad site, notify customers ...
Orange has launched Orange Klif digital phone worth US$40 (€35)plus a data, voice and text bundle to address a new market segment that finds access to mobile internet unaffordable. Set to be available in Q2, the Orange Klif will be available in Egypt, Senegal, Tunisia, Cameroon, Botswana, Madagascar, Mali, The ...
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In May last year, Orange launched Biashara Talk, a post-paid service targeted at Small office Home office (SoHo)customers and small businesses. Biashara Talk monthly bundles ranged from KES 1,000, to KES 10,000, all with 30-day validity periods. In response to what the firm calls a stronger market demand, Orange has ...
Cash-to-goods money transfers firm Afrimarket has raised $2.3m (EUR 2 million) funding round from Orange and EUR 1 million from BIM investment fund to help scale the 30,000-customer firm to launch in Mali and Cameroon and scale its operations in Orange markets. Unlike Western Union, Afrimarket transfers funds aimed at ...
Image:beiyacampo.com In a turn of events that is making consumers in the shrinking landline market in Kenya happy, the telecoms war between Safaricom and old timer Orange Telkom has seen lowering charges among other incentives targeted at getting the bigger slice of the market. The recent ...
True to its word of investing in startups, Orange has contibuted an unspeciied amount of money in the Afrimarket startup that deals in cash-to-goods money transfers. In addition to this investment, Orange will participate in the development of Afrimarket by sharing market knowledge and the many benefits of an international ...
