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- 14 Mar 2016
Ericsson, China Mobile Extend 5G Cooperation
Ericsson joins China Mobile’s 5G Joint Innovation Center program to accelerate development of next-generation wireless networks, which will be faster, more powerful and offer even greater…
- 5 Jan 2020
UnionPay says 4M Merchants Support Mobile Service Outside of China
UnionPay International, the third leading mobile wallet service in China, said that 28.5 million merchants accept Union Pay outside of the country, with 4 million of them supporting the UnionPay…
- 29 Jun 2016
GSMA Launches Initiative for Rich, Interoperable Messaging Experiences
GSMA hasannounced that AIS, Axiata Group, Beeline, Bell Mobility, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Claro Brazil, Claro Colombia, Indosat Ooredoo, M1, Megafon, MTS, Optus, Personal…
- 28 May 2026
Bharti Airtel Named Fourth Largest Mobile Network Operator in the World
The top ten mobile network operators in the world account for roughly 3.8 billion subscriptions, about 43 percent of the 8.8 billion mobile lines in service worldwide as of mid-2024. The composition…
- 20 May 2016
Samsung Pay, Alipay Team Up to Expand Mobile Payments in China
Samsung Electronics has announced the partnership with Ant Financial Services Group, parent company of Alipay, to expand Samsung Pay in China. A simple, safe and easy-to-use mobile payment service,…
- 19 May 2022
U.S, China Battle for Africa Mobile Phone Sector- VOA
Africa, in recent years, has become the new frontier where China and the United States, the world's two biggest economic superpowers, are competing for influence in a key industry:…
- 27 Jun 2017
GSMA Mobile IoT Initiative Takes Off
The GSMA has announced that its Mobile IoT Initiative1 has taken off with the launch of multiple commercial rollouts of Low Power, Wide Area (LPWA) solutions by several of the world’s leading mobile…
- 21 Nov 2018
GSMA Launches New Industry-Wide Initiative to Support Operator Edge Cloud AR/VR
The GSMA has announced the launch of a new industry-wide initiative called The GSMA Cloud AR/VR Forum that will focus on the development of cloud virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR)…
- 13 Jul 2015
GSMA Announces Speakers for Mobile 360 Series – Africa
The GSMA on Monday announced the first speakers for the 2015 Mobile 360 Series – Africa conference, including executives from organisations such as China Mobile, Huawei, the Internet Society, MTN and…
- 8 May 2020
Chinese Firms Deliver World’s Highest 5G
China Mobile and Huawei have jointly taken 5G connectivity to a new height by bringing the network to the summit of Mount Everest upon the completion of the world’s highest 5G base station on the…
- 21 Sept 2015
GSMA Schedules More Speakers for Mobile 360-Africa Confab
The GSMA on Monday announced additional speakers for the 2015 Mobile 360 – Africa conference, including executives from organisations such as China Mobile, Huawei, the Internet Society, MasterCard,…
- 10 Feb 2014
Alipay Overtakes PayPal in the Mobile Payments Market
Alipay, China's largest online payments processor said that it has overtaken PayPal to become the largest mobile payments provider in the world. The company, owned by e-commerce giant, Alibaba says…
- 14 May 2020
Facebook, Telcos Unveil A Transformative Submarine Cable for Future Internet Connectivity in Africa
Facebook, China Mobile International, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, stc, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone and WIOCC announced that they will partner to build 2Africa, which will be the most comprehensive subsea…
- 25 Jun 2019
Hackers Attack Global Phone Networks, China Fingered
Hackers targeted mobile phone networks around the world to snoop on specific users, according to a report by Cybereason, a US-Israeli security firm. The level of access they gained to the networks…
- 17 Oct 2015
ITU Telecom World 2015 Accelerates Global ICT Innovation to help Improve Lives
ITU Telecom World 2015 closed its doors last week at Hungexpo, Budapest following an exceptional week of dialogue, debate, networking and showcasing. The event, which welcomed over 4,000 participants…
- 27 Feb 2018
Huawei Releases First 5G Customer-Premises Equipment
Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG) launched its HUAWEI 5G customer-premises equipment (CPE), the world’s first commercial terminal device supporting the globally recognized 3GPP telecommunication…
- 2 Jul 2017
Nigeria Missing as Mobile IoT Initiative gets Underway
Nigeria as the fastest growing telecommunications market in Africa is not even at the outskirts of the Global System for Mobile Association (GSMA) Mobile Internet of Things (IoT) Initiative1 launched…
- 25 Jan 2013
Opera Software, Gionee Connect More People
Opera Software and Gionee, one of the TOP 3 mobile phone brand in China and famous global smartphone solution supplier, are working together to get more people connected with the Opera Mini mobile…
- 16 Aug 2021
2Africa Consortium Adds Nigeria, Other Landing Sites to Subsea Cable Network
The 2Africa consortium announced, on Monday, that it will extend the subsea cable that serves the African continent and Middle East region to four more branches. The consortium includes China Mobile…
- 4 Jan 2016
Gionee Excites Smartphone Users with Gionee S Plus
‎Gionee, a renowned and global Chinese phone manufacturer and China’s largest mobile manufacturer has introduced a new phone into the Nigerian market. ‎ The new phone Gionee S plus aligns…
- 11 Sept 2015
Mobile Infrastructure Market Hits $11.4Bn in Q2
Driven by strong 3G WCDMA capacity projects in EMEA and unabated LTE activity in China, the global macrocell mobile infrastructure market was up 2 percent in the 2nd quarter of 2015 (2Q15) from the…
- 7 Sept 2017
GSMA Highlights $1.8 Trillion IoT Revenue Opportunity for MNOs
The GSMA yesterday announced that mobile network operators are set to benefit from an estimated US$1.8 trillion Internet of Things (IoT) revenue opportunity by 2026 boosted by the early deployment of…
- 24 Aug 2015
GSMA Launches Low Power WAN Initiative to Accelerate Growth of IoT
The GSMA has announced that it has established the ‘Mobile IoT Initiative’, a new project backed by 26 of the world’s leading mobile operators, OEMs, chipset, module and infrastructure companies,…
- 22 Jul 2016
WeChat Takes on WhatsApp in Africa
WeChat, China's biggest Internet-based mobile messaging platform – is scrambling to gain from African markets. The move is leading the South Africa-China joint venture down a fiercely competitive…
- 19 Oct 2020
Telcos Accelerate Standalone 5G Deployment to Meet COVID-19 Induced Demand- GlobalData
Internet has emerged as a critical lifeline for people and businesses across the world in 2020 as the COVID-19 crisis led to the rise in remote working, virtual schooling, online socializing and…
- 6 Feb 2017
OPPO, Huawei & vivo Grab Nearly Half China's Smartphone Market in 2016- Report
According to the latest IDC Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, the smartphone market in China saw a 19% YoY growth and 17% QoQ growth in 2016Q4. For the full year of 2016, the market grew by 9% with top…
- 1 Mar 2018
ZTE: Airtel’s 4G in Ibadan will Drive Economic Growth
ZTE Corporation, a global telecommunications equipment, networks and mobile devices company headquartered in Shenzhen, China has partnered with leading telecommunications services provider, Airtel…
- 3 Jul 2015
How Airtel Emerged 3rd Global Largest Mobile Operator
Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), a leading telecommunications service provider with operations in 20 countries across South Asia and Africa, has become the third largest mobile operator in the world in…
- 22 Feb 2010
MTN, Others Partner on Global Applications Platform
MTN Group and other large mobile operators have joined forces to launch an open international applications platform, marking the largest unified move to date by the operator community into the mobile…
- 20 Nov 2014
GSMA Partners Child Helpline International to Promote Child Protection
GSMA has marked the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)1 by forming a partnership with Child Helpline International (CHI) to protect young people and…