mobile money
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Airtel Money Tanzania will partner with TerraPay to enable its customers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to make purchases at points of sale terminals. -
Safaricom Ethiopia’s mobile money service M-PESA is now live for Android users in the country, with an iOS version set to follow.
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M-Pesa, the pioneering mobile money platform run by Safaricom and the Vodacom group, is now run from a cloud operations centre in Kenya.
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Safaricom Ethiopia is to challenge incumbent operator Ethio Telecom with its own mobile money platform, M-Pesa.
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Nigerian operators are threatening to cut off banks providing mobile financial services because they say they have not paid their bill.
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UK-based e-commerce company Bango has acquired the global payments business of mobile operator NTT DoCoMo for only €4 million in cash.
Forthcoming events
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Hormuud Telecom has today been awarded with the country’s first Mobile Money Certification by the global mobile network operators’ industry body, GSMA for its EVC Plus product.
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Telenor Group has sold its 51% stake in Wave Money to the Myanmar-focused conglomerate, Yoma Strategic Holdings.
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Kenyans made 1.9 trillion mobile money transactions in the first 11 months of 2021, worth more than US$55 billion.
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Tanzania has made an about-turn on its plan to impose high taxes on mobile money transactions, following an intervention by the president.
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Ethio Telecom is building network capacity and planning to pilot 5G mobile as it prepares for competition at the end of 2021.
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The government of Tanzania has set a target of gathering US$2.1 billion in tax on mobile money transactions over the next five years.
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Somalia's Hormuud Telecom has pledged to ensure full 4G coverage across Somalia by 2023.
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Veon is putting its services and apps business under new management, with a focus on financial services, entertainment and big data. Alan Burkitt-Gray interviews Sergi Herrero about his plans
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Shareholders in mobile phone operator Veon are expected to take a decision this week that will be a major step forward in creating an independent home for the group’s services division.
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MTN is considering making a second attempt to win a telecoms licence from Ethiopia, the CEO has told shareholders.
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Ethio Telecom has gained a head start against its likely competitors by launching its mobile money service this week.
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Somalia's Hormuud Telecom has launched the country's first native mobile money app, WAAFI.
