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- 14 Jul 2016
Safaricom Stays Ahead in Kenya with Nokia’s CEM Technology
Safaricom, the largest integrated telecommunication service provider in East Africa, is improving services for more than 25 million subscribers in Kenya, thanks to Nokia's Customer Experience…
- 26 Mar 2021
Nokia, Safaricom Launch East Africa’s First Commercial 5G Services in Kenya
Nokia 5G radio and FastMile 5G gateways provide ultra-fast Fixed Wireless Access services to subscribers; Safaricom also showcased 5G hologram and UHD video communication using live 5G network. Nokia…
- 4 May 2018
Safaricom Pilots Messaging App Linked to Mobile money
Safaricom, Kenya's biggest telecoms company, is piloting a social messaging app that will link to its mobile money platform in an attempt to move the company into the application business. Bonga,…
- 15 Dec 2008
Safaricom Supports Aitec Banking Technology Conference in Nairobi
Safaricom has committed sponsorship support for the annual Banking and Payment Technologies Conference taking place at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre in Nairobi, over 17-19 February,…
- 25 Jan 2013
Safaricom, Intel Introduce Yolo™, Africa’s First Smartphone
Safaricom Limited, leading integrated communications provider has taken the wrapper off Yolo™ smartphone, the first smartphone for Africa with Intel Inside®. The device is aimed at the growing number…
- 29 Jul 2025
Safaricom, PayPal Collaborate to Link Mobile Money with Online Payments
Safaricom, M-PESA and PayPal have announced a strategic collaboration to enable account linking and seamless fund transfers across their networks. This collaboration aims to empower more than 35…
- 26 Mar 2013
Safaricom Launches Phone Book Back-Up Service
Kenya's Safaricom has launched a back-up service for phonebook contacts in customers handsets. The service is being provided by Gemalto. Gemalto's LinqUs Cloud Backup combines both SIM and handset…
- 23 Mar 2018
Teleology Partners Safaricom, Unveils 10-Point Agenda for 9mobile
Teleology Holdings, the preferred bidder for the deal, has reeled out its 10-point agenda for 9mobile. This is coming some 24 hours after meeting Thursday’s deadline set by the financial…
- 22 Feb 2023
M-Pesa Eyes Global Remittances Trillion-dollar Market
M-Pesa, the fintech service provided by telecom company, Safaricom, is dipping its feet into the remittance market through a partnership with eCommerce behemoth, Amazon. Founded in 2007, M-Pesa has…
- 27 Feb 2018
mSurvey to Launch in Nigeria
mSurvey, the Safaricom-backed, mobile-first consumer experience platform, is expanding into Nigeria as it looks to consolidate its position as one of Africa's leading tech-powered customer loyalty…
- 14 Jan 2019
Airtel in Talks to Buy Telkom
Bharti Airtel is in talks to buy Telkom Kenya, the East African nation’s smallest telecoms operator, to create a stronger challenger to market leader Safaricom, according to Reuters on Monday.…
- 4 Mar 2018
mSurvey Hosts DEMO Day in Nigeria
mSurvey, the mobile-first consumer feedback platform which allows business to obtain feedback directly from their customers in real-time, has officially launched in Nigeria. Safaricom backed mSurvey…
- 29 May 2017
M-Pesa Targets More African Countries in Expansion
Vodafone's popular mobile financial service M-Pesa will expand into more African countries, giving millions of people access to banking services without the need for a bank account, the CEO of…
- 6 Apr 2014
Let Free Market Work in Mobile Money -Oviosu
Tayo Oviosu, founder and CEO, Paga (Pagatech, has over 12 years experience in a variety of technical and business roles in High-tech and Private Equity. Oviosu, had held position as vice…
- 18 Jan 2010
Verve, Zap, OthersTop 10 African Fin. Service Tech Products in 2009
The task of selecting top 10 technology driven products/services in financial service industry in Africa in 2009 is not an enviable one. In spite of the global financial recession, financial services…
- 3 Nov 2020
The Rise of New Industry Stocks Under COVID-19 - FBNQuest
Gregory Kronsten Where Big Oil, Big Pharma, bulge-bracket investment banks and Coca Cola once dominated US stock markets, their roles have now been usurped by the likes of Alphabet, Amazon, Apple,…
- 12 May 2025
Airtel Money Plans IPO to Compete in Fintech Space
Airtel Africa is positioning its mobile money platform, Airtel Money, to challenge Africa’s fintech giants through a planned initial public offering set for the first half of 2026, Sunil Taldar,…
- 15 Sept 2016
MTN Scraps Mobile Money Business in South Africa
MTN Group has pulled the plug on its local mobile money business, saying it was not viable in a country where around three quarters of the population already has a bank account. Mobile money services…
- 21 Sept 2021
Global Initiative to Give 3.4bn People Access to Smartphones
An initiative has been launched by Vodafone Group and the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU), to address the global digital divide. It aims to give an additional 3.4 billion people the…
- 20 Apr 2021
CNN’s Connecting Africa Explores Africa’s Telecommunications Industry
In the latest episode of Connecting Africa, CNN International’s Eleni Giokos explores how Africa’s telecommunications industry is transforming business and gearing up for a more interconnected…
- 8 Jun 2015
SimbaPay Connects World’s First Int'l Access to M-Pesa PayBill
SimbaPay, a leading digital money transfer provider, on Monday, announced the launch of the first product in the world that allows Kenyans living abroad to make M-Pesa PayBill payments. This is a new…
- 25 Mar 2015
Google, Facebook Build “Digital Prisons” in Nigeria, Others with Internet Freebies
Google and Facebook are at the forefront of a scramble to win over new African Internet users, offering freebies they say give a leg-up to the poor but which critics argue is a plan to lock in…
- 23 Mar 2018
Teleology Pays $50m, Set to Takeover 9mobile
Teleology has put finishing touches to its acquisition of 9mobile, Nigeria’s 4th telecom services provider, by paying $50m deposit, ahead of the deadline. Ahead of the March 22 deadline set by…
- 14 Dec 2017
Huawei Partners Xpress Money to Expand Mobile Money in Africa
Global telecom Huawei, has teamed up with global money transfer company Xpress Money to expand mobile money services across the African region. The partnership will see Xpress Money have access to…
- 14 Jul 2017
GSMA Unveils New ‘Mobile for Development’ Initiatives
At the 2017 Mobile 360 – Africa, the GSMA announced several developments in its Mobile for Development programme, all of which support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The…
- 2 Mar 2014
Airtel Nigeria Appoints Commercial, Technical Chief Officers
Airtel Nigeria, has announced the appointment of Mohamed Ghidan as its chief technical & information technology officer (CTIO) and Maurice Newa as chief commercial officer (CCO), in furtherance…
- 17 Sept 2012
MobileMoney and Future of Insurance in Nigeria
With growing incidences of natural disasters, crop failures, investment uncertainty, growing population and dwindling natural resources, Africans are more than ever before exposed to the effects of…
- 5 Dec 2017
9mobile Splashes Roaming Customers with Double Offers @ Yuletide
Christmas is starting early this year as 9mobile, the leading customer-friendly telecommunications company, has launched double roaming offers to enable its potential and existing customers to stay…
- 21 Aug 2017
The Four Models of Competitive Strategy
Austin Okere is a known voice in the Nigerian IT industry. In this piece on his LinkedIn page, the Founder of CWG Plc, shares ‘The Four Models of Competitive Strategy’. About a week ago I had a poser…
- 24 Nov 2013
Africa’s Telecom Revenue to Hi $59Bn in 5 Years
Sub-Saharan Africa's retail telecoms revenue will grow at a faster rate than any other region in the world over the next 5 years (6.4% CAGR over 2012–2018), but operators in the region must still…