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- 28 Oct 2013
Airtel Africa, Nazara Technologies Launch Flat-Fee Mobile Games Service
Bharti Airtel, a leading telecommunications services provider with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, on Monday launched Airtel Games Club, a flat-fee mobile gaming subscription…
- 12 Jun 2015
App Annie, IDC Report How Mobile Games Top Changers
Leading mobile app analytics company App Annie and International Data Corporation (IDC), the premier provider of technology market intelligence services, on Friday unveiled a special report ahead of…
- 3 Dec 2018
MTN Nigeria Launches First Disney Mobile Web Service in Nigeria
MTN Nigeria over the weekend launched Disney mobile web service called Disneynigeria.mobi which is loaded with Disney-themed short-form content, games and shareables in Nigeria. The service is…
- 28 Feb 2012
Ericsson Fast-tracks Mobile Financial Services with New m-Commerce Portfolio
Ericsson has unveiled its new extended suite of m-commerce solutions and services, designed to accelerate access and interconnection between the emerging m-commerce eco-system and the financial world…
- 17 Nov 2013
Gennii Games, Efiwe Mobile Application Win Etisalat Prize for Innovation
Genii Games and Efiwe Mobile Application have emerged winners of the second edition of the ‘Etisalat Pan-African Prize for Innovation’ organized by Etisalat, Nigeria’s most innovative…
- 27 Feb 2015
Report Shows iOS, Google Play Gained in 1Bn Mobile Game Market
International Data Corporation (IDC) and App Annie on Thursday released the Portable Gaming Spotlight, 2014 Review, a report that characterizes several key portable gaming trends and marketplace…
- 1 Feb 2016
WorldRemit, MTN Ink Agreement on Mobile Money Service
WorldRemit and MTN Group has announced that its customers can now send money instantly to MTN Mobile Money wallets in Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia. The launch follows the signing of a global partnership…
- 30 Sept 2020
Huawei Launches Mondia Pay on Huawei Mobile Services in Nigeria, Others
Huawei, in cooperation with digital payment entity, Mondia Pay, now offers Direct Carrier Billing service (DCB), for seamless, contactless payments for users in the MEA region through Huawei Mobile…
- 7 Oct 2020
Jumia Partners Mondia to Launch New Gaming Service on JumiaPay App
Jumia, Africa’s largest e-commerce platform, has launched Jumia Games, a competitively priced entertainment category on the JumiaPay App in partnership with Mondia a leading technology company which…
- 9 Apr 2016
Ntel Rolls Out Commercial 4G/LTE Mobile Service
Ntel, Nigeria’s most advanced 4G/LTE network has announced the commencement of its phased and paced commercial operations with bumper offers for Pioneers and data users. The first 100,000 to redeem…
- 25 Apr 2018
Ecobank Mobile App Name Official Bank Service Platform of Okpekpe Road Race
Pamodzi Sports Marketing, organiser of the acclaimed Okpekpe International Road Race, has named Ecobank Mobile App as the official Banking Service platform for the 2018 edition of the race slated for…
- 19 May 2021
Mondia Expands African Reach in a Strategic Partnership with MTN Nigeria
Mondia, a private m-commerce company dedicated to connecting, digitalising and monitising mobile consumers, today announced the launch of Getmo Games, a new gaming service for MTN Nigeria…
- 15 Jun 2015
Google Unveils Gamers' YouTube
Google said it is introducing a live streaming gaming service called "YouTube Gaming", creating a rival to Amazon.com's Twitch service. The service, to be available in the form of an app as well as a…
- 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…
- 9 Dec 2017
ChopUp Partners Paga to Launch Africa’s First Mobile e-Sports Platform
By peter oluka Leading Nigerian mobile gaming company, ChopUp has partnered with Paga, Nigeria’s preferred digital financial services company, to launch Africa’s first mobile eSports platform. This…
- 20 Jul 2013
GSM Service Restored in Maiduguri
Mobile phone services of MTN has been restored in the restive city of Maiduguri for the first time in more than two months on Friday. It is the latest area of the conflict-torn North- East to be…
- 11 Dec 2012
Alcatel-Lucent Builds Airtel’s Network Backbone Across Africa
Alcatel-Lucent is to help Bharti Airtel meet rapidly growing demand for mobile broadband services in its African operations by supplying advanced new IP (Internet Protocol)-based networking…
- 20 Jul 2020
Heritage Bank Upgrades HB ‘Padie’ Mobile App for Easy Access to Banking Services
Heritage Bank plc, Nigeria's most innovative banking service provider has upgraded its HB ‘Padie’ mobile application to HB ‘Padie’ 2.0, which comes with new improved features for convenient, quick,…
- 19 May 2015
Connectivity Key to Exploiting W/Africa Digital Services Business Prospects- Babatope
The increasing maturity of most mobile markets in West Africa has intensified the competition for subscribers, compelling operators to innovate and differentiate in terms of service delivery and…
- 23 Feb 2013
MM Operators Race to Interoperability Deadline
Mobile money service providers in the country are making last-ditch effort to connect to the National Central Switch (NCS) in compliance with the directive of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN),…
- 19 May 2009
Mobile Messaging is Precursor of Mobile Banking- Van Heerden
Deon van Heerden was appointed Clickatell’s South Africa country manager and vice president of sales for the Middle East and Africa last April. Prior to this, he successfully launched the…
- 4 May 2021
YFDS Partners Bet Operators for Seamless Service
Y’ello Digital Financial Services (YDFS), a subsidiary of MTN Nigeria, has announced its partnership with gaming operators, Betway and BetPawa through its flagship mobile money transfer service, MoMo…
- 28 Jan 2013
Highwire Lobby to Save Mobile Money
Major mobile money industry players have begun a high wire lobby to get the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to rejig the policy framework of mobile money services after a fluttering start of the…
- 4 Aug 2008
3G Technology and Access Challenge
The 3G race in the space begun when the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) signified its intension to award the licenses to Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) operators in 2006…
- 28 Sept 2009
Mobile Application Sales to Hit 165 Million by 2009
The number of smartphones sold each year is expected to hit 165.2 million by the end of 2009 and to reach 422.96 million in 2013, with the total number of smartphone users approaching 1.6 billion,…
- 7 May 2015
#TheNewPocketMoni for Demo in Lagos Today
PocketMoni will today in Lagos launch a game changer in the Mobile Payments space at an event which holds at CCHub Experience Centre, Yaba. Described as a "Silicon Valley Style Product», the launch…
- 16 Nov 2012
Smile, Alcatel-Lucent Expand Availability of 4G Services in Africa
Alcatel-Lucent, is to enable the African wireless service provider Smile to introduce 4G mobile broadband services to several more sites in Tanzania, and Uganda, extending the agreement signed…
- 23 Nov 2019
GSMA Says WRC-19 Spectrum Treaty Will Open Door to Exciting New 5G Services
The GSMA has welcomed the international spectrum treaty adopted by the World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19), which will unlock the potential for game-changing 5G services around the…
- 14 Dec 2020
Ericsson Mobility Report: Mobile Data Traffic in Sub-Saharan Africa to Grow by 6.5 times by 2026
The November 2020 edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report reveals that mobile data traffic in Sub-Saharan Africa is estimated to grow by almost 6.5 times the current figures, with total traffic…
- 10 Aug 2010
LFR Brings Mobile Payment to Nigeria
LFR Communications, Inc. of Laurel, Maryland has announced that its formal expansion into platform licensing, management and advisory services for mobile payments in Nigeria. Mobile payment…