Cashless innovation continues across Africa. This time Kenyan bank KCB is partnering with payment giant Visa and technology company Thales to enable contactless payment transactions.
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The Indian government approved chip manufacturer Micron Technology’s plan to build a US$2.7 billion semiconductor packaging and testing facility in West India.
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Lynk Global has partnered with Palau’s largest operator PNCC to provide satellite-direct-to-mobile phone services to the island nation using Lynk’s “cell-towers-in-space”.
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Satellite company SES ceased merger talks with rival Intelsat, it confirmed in a statement today (June 22).
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Ericsson’s new Mobility Report highlights continuing global 5G growth, with India apparently leading the way.
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STT GDC Indonesia, a leading data centre provider, has officially launched its first data centre facility, STT Jakarta 1, in Bekasi, Jawa Barat. The data centre campus will support up to 72 megawatts of critical IT capacity, with STT Jakarta 1 supporting up to 19.5 MW.
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Somalian service provider Somtel is deploying the DZS Saber compact and environmentally hardened coherent optics solutions to future-proof its dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM) backbone network for reliable, cost-effective delivery of high-bandwidth aggregation and transport services.
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Winity, which became a new Brazilian national mobile operator in 2021, and satellite operator Hughes have announced a pilot project involving prepaid mobile internet in remote areas.
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Chile’s Entel is now offering 3.5GHz 5G coverage in Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island.
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Google is reportedly searching for suppliers in India to build its Pixel smartphone range as the US company pivots away from manufacturing in China.
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Telefonica-owned business-focused company Movistar Empresas and Nokia have announced a strategic alliance to accelerate the digital transformation of companies in the Latin American region through the development of industrial IoT networks.
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Digital communications technology corporation Cisco has announced plans to establish a data centre in Saudi Arabia dedicated to cloud-delivered security.
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MWC Shanghai 2023 will be held at the end of this month, with executives from telecom operators and mainstream equipment manufacturers set to deliver keynote speeches sharing their insights into development, opportunities, and challenges in the mobile industry.
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Spacecraft manufacturer, launcher, and satellite communications company SpaceX has launched a new Indonesian communications satellite as part of an ambitious project called SATRIA.
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Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a business of pan-African technology group Cassava Technologies, says it has successfully installed the Mauritius Telecom T3 subsea cable connecting Mauritius to South Africa.
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Yet another collaboration aimed at the underbanked is claiming strong expectations of growth, this time in Nigeria where Google Cloud and banking platform Moniepoint are working together.
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Israeli state-owned energy firm EAPC (Europe Asia Pipeline Company) is set to build a fibre optic cable creating a continuous link from Europe to the Gulf and Asia.
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State-owned service provider Angola Telecom has this week announced the launch of a new service called Conecta Angola, whose aim is to reach the most remote areas of the country where, previously, none of the country’s mobile operators had been active.
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China Mobile has split contracts for two 5G networks worth a combined CNY7.8 billion ($1.1 billion) between five vendors, with Huawei taking the lion’s share.
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Startup Hello Space, described as Turkey's first commercial ‘pocketqube’ satellite venture, has launched what it describes as the world’s tiniest satellite – with the help of SpaceX.
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Pan-African service provider Vodacom has been busy with payment services both in South Africa, with extensions to the operator’s VodaPay super app, and regionally, with a managed payment service.
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Hormuud Telecom has partnered with the GSMA Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation Programme (M4H) to drive the humanitarian sector’s adoption of Hormuud’s mobile network services in Somalia.
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MTN Sudan has chosen Skyvera’s cloud-native digital BSS/OSS portfolio for its digital transformation programme.
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International voice and messaging specialist VOX Solutions has been appointed as the exclusive gateway for international application-to-person (A2P) short message service (SMS) traffic delivery into the Telekom Networks Malawi (TNM) network.
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Solomon Islands operator Our Telekom has launched its “highly anticipated” mobile money service, M-SELEN.
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Vodafone Fiji has extended its partnership with Paymentology to enable the issue of Mastercard digital first cards to its customers via the M-PAiSA app.
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Last month, ZTE pledged its support to the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi), underlining its commitment to meeting science-based emission reduction targets in the near term as well as achieving net-zero emissions in the long term.
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Liquid Dataport, a business of pan-African technology group Liquid Intelligent Technologies, and fixed network operator Angola Telecom have announced a new terrestrial fibre route between Luanda in Angola and Johannesburg in South Africa.
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Digital infrastructure company Equinix plans to open its first data centre in Kuala Lumpur in Q1 2024, following its announcement last year of plans to enter Malaysia with a data centre in Johor.
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Nigeria’s Globacom has launched an LTE-A network across several of the country’s main cities to bolster the speed and resilience of its existing 4G services.
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Mitsumi Distribution has expanded its distribution partnership with Dell Technologies in the French speaking countries of West Africa.
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The Zambian government revealed Elon Musk’s satellite connectivity firm Starlink has been awarded an operating license.
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A1 Serbia has signed a deal to acquire a portion of Conexio’s infrastructure.
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QCell claims to have launched Gambia’s first commercial 5G service.