Integrated ICT Services Provider, Internet Solutions (IS) has hired former Vodafone Global Enterprise, Country Head East AfricaSylvester Mboya to spearhead its commercial business unit as the company looks to grow its revenues and footprint in the East African region. As the Chief Commercial Officer, Mboya who is a career Business ...
Financial inclusion and telecommunications expert Topy Muga is one of the TechWomen emerging women leaders in Africa. In fact, The techie is actually a decorated financial inclusion and fintech personality with a very impressive experience in the digital world, spanning thirteen years. However, where did it all start? Topy is ...
Safaricom, Kenya's largest telco has announced a full year net income of Ksh 38.1 billion, a 19.6 increase from last years with a free cash flow of Ksh 30.4bn, up 10.3 percent from last year and it aims to pay 80 percent of it to shareholders pending board aproval. The ...
Huawei today announced that the new M-PESA service for Safaricom is now running on its open, secure, flexible and high performing Mobile Money Platform after it migrated all 12.8 million active subscribers overnight. TechMoran reported last year when Safaricom hired Huawei for this task.TheHuwaei Mobile MoneyPlatformis built to deliver basic ...
Vodafone AppStar 2014 has been launched and the firm says it's now bigger and better with new categories and exciting new prizes – including a trip to MWC, Barcelona and several local prizes. Developers need to register now to be part of this new and exciting journey, details of the ...
Telecommunications firm MTN plans to lay off about 850 managerial staff, a move attributed to slow growth as well as tough competition in the market. According to Reuters, despite the company’s growth over the last twenty years, it has been facing competition from Vodacom which dominates the market. MTN's South ...
Ghana’s communication regulator The National Communications Authority (NCA) has lifted the ban imposed on Vodafone Ghana on the 6th of June, 2014, caused by nationwide outage on the network. Among the sanctions imposed on the telecom were , banning them from the acquisition of new subscribers, sale of New SIM ...
Vodafone subscribers in Ghana can now make voice and data payments electronically using the eTranzact e-payment platform thanks to a partnership between Vodafone and eTranzact. With the platform, subscribers can pay for both postpaid and broadband subscriptions at any branch nationwide online and via mobile in real time. “We provide ...
The National Communication Authority (NCA) has banned Vodafone Ghana from the registration of new subscribers from now to July 31, 2014. The telecom company has been suspended from acquiring new customers either through sales and activation of new SIMs or by porting. Vodafone has subsequently been ordered to immediately investigate thoroughly ...
The world’s second-largest mobile company on Friday published a lengthy transparency report on government surveillance in 29 countries where it operates calling for an end to some spying that occurs when nations directly tap networks through secret wires. This report comes a day after the tech industry commemorated the anniversary of Edward Snowden's ...
After eight years of Safaricom’s mobile money platform systems operating from Germany, the telecommunications company has contracted 200 experts from Huawei to install a new M-Pesa server that will be located in Kenya. The move definitely comes with added advantages to the service subscriber as well as the provider with ...
Suitsupply, a dutch fashion retailer has added Safaricom’s M-Pesa, Airtel money and yuCash on its online payment options a move that shows the acceptance of mobile phone-based money for international transactions. The men’s fashion chain with more than 50 stores across the world including US, UK, China and Holland has ...
Rolled out in 2007, Safaricom didn't mean a mobile money platform. Infact, the leading mobile subscriber didn't think of it as a money making business it is today. M-pesa has over the years gained ground in its country of origin and the larger East Africa. Individuals have acquired the service ...
Vodafone in partnership with private sector ICICI Bank has launched an M-Pesa facility in Tamil Nadu India that will allow mobile customers in the region to deposit, withdraw and transfer money to any mobile phone. The popular mobile money transfer and payment service M-Pesa was launched by Vodafone India’s operations ...
East Africa’s Leading mobile phone company, Safaricom may allegedly abandon its bid to acquire assets owned by Essar Telecom Kenya Ltd in the absence of regulatory approval. Communications Authority of Kenya has to date not acknowledged Safaricom’s receipt of application to make the acquisition which was handed in by the ...
Safaricom has officially announced the launch of the AppStar Challenge 2013 in partnership with Vodafone, a competition that will see the overall winner walk away with Kshs1 million ($12,000). AppStar Challenge is an annual developer contest conducted by Vodafone across several countries in Africa & Asia where local developers get ...
Vodacom has launched Vodafone Smart Mini, an affordable smartphone focused on new smartphone users. Now available in the market, the R799 Vodafone Smart Mini runs on Android Jelly Bean 4.1, has a 3.5-inch HVGA touchscreen display, a 1GHz processor and a 4GB storage. Vodacom aims to push the smartphone further in ...
Ghana's Origgin, a startup firm developing mobile apps founded in 2010 by 25-year-old Kane Mani wants to develop mobile apps for the world. According to Mani, the firm aims "to put a mobile device in the hands of every person in the world running Origgin apps." "We're Origgin-ators. We're a team ...
