East Africa’s YOTVChannels and MTN Uganda have introduced a new TV streaming plan in Uganda that includes mobile users in its target audience.
In a fairly turbulent week for telecoms, there has at least been one encouraging piece of telecommunications news: an education-linked story from Zimbabwe – or rather from a Zimbabwean AI expert.
Tokopedia, Indonesia’s largest e-commerce marketplace, is said to be involved in a major fundraising effort targeting up to $1.5bn.
Indian operator Bharti Airtel has announced that its recently-launched voice over WiFi network service – Airtel WiFi Calling – has passed the one million user mark and that countrywide rollout will be accelerated.
The African Development Bank and Microsoft have launched what they call the Coding for Employment digital training platform (Coding4Employment.org), described as an online tool to provide digital skills to African youth, wherever they are across the continent.
Over 25 million mobile phone users in South Africa now have access to mobile internet basics at no cost – and signs are that the new offering – from Vodacom – is already very popular.
Facebook is inviting applications for the third edition of its London accelerator programme, which, for the first time, is open to start-ups from Africa.
Facebook and Twitter have blocked hundreds of accounts that appear to be part of a campaign of disinformation supported by the Chinese government.
MTN and reverse data billing pioneer biNu have announced a partnership which will enable subscribers in South Africa to access websites and apps free.
Mongolia’s Mongolsat Networks has announced plans to optimise multi-screen video delivery through a unified video platform that will, it is claimed, enable Mongolsat to securely deliver OTT and TV Everywhere services.
After disrupting the mobile market through Reliance Jio, could Reliance Industries Ltd be about to do the same for e-commerce?
The first African tech start-up to list in New York has been performing well on the stock exchange – and MTN in particular has cause to be grateful.
Further evidence of the importance of connectivity to rural industries comes from an initiative designed to boost Brazil’s agricultural sector.
Highly competitive pricing for services in the Indian mobile market may be a headache for operators but it has apparently benefited online video sharing.
Anam and Apigate have partnered to deliver a highly accessible and secured messaging platform aimed at both enterprises and mobile operators that enables businesses to scale digitally.
MediaKind has been selected by Vodafone Qatar to deliver MediaFirst, its next generation cloud-based multiscreen TV Platform service, to consumers in Qatar.
MTN South Africa has partnered with global customer engagement company Clickatell to launch MTN Chat, enabling its customers to engage with the telco over WhatsApp.
Czech search engine Seznam has demanded greater detail on Google’s plans to introduce greater competition across the Android device ecosystem.
At a press conference held at the Mobile World Congress 2019, Lifecell announced a new Digital Operator (DO) vision and 1440 strategy partnership with Digicel Group, expanding Lifecell’s experience and know-how in digitalisation to countries across the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific.
Although most, or 65%, of mobile Internet users visit Google, they spend most of their time on social networks Youtube and Facebook, according to Latvia’s mobile operator BITE. These websites also consume the largest amount of Internet capacity.
WhatsApp is under renewed scrutiny in Indian ahead of the country’s national elections, which will be held across April and May.
FreeConferenceCall.com has launched free conference calling in Uganda.
Chinese smartphone manufacturer Vivo has formed a new long-term partnership with Taboola to bring personalised news to mobile users across Asia.
WhatsApp has blocked hundreds of thousands of accounts of user accounts in Brazil amid the mass proliferation of fake news messages via the app in the run-up to the country’s presidential elections.
Latin America’s pay TV market has received a boost from this year’s World Cup – and online services are hoping for a boost from regional club football.
