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USSD service boosts Nigerian mobile transaction options

Developing Telecoms

A reminder that in large parts of Africa internet connectivity is not always guaranteed comes from PalmPay, a financial platform with over 30 million users on its smartphone app in Nigeria.

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IOH and Google sign sovereign cloud deal 

Total Telecom

Keep up to date with the latest international telecoms news by subscribing to the Total Telecom daily newsletter. These solutions will equip organizations with the state-of-the-art infrastructure, operational features, and developer tools they need to accelerate digitalization at scale,” he continued.

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HS2 project could boost rural broadband, new analysis reveals 

Total Telecom

As part of the railway deployment plan for HS2, mobile and broadband providers would be offered access to spare capacity in the 2,000km of fibre cabling and 80 telecoms masts being constructed alongside the railway, which will connect London and Birmingham.

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Kaios and Mastercard to help SMEs in developing markets adopt digital payments

Developing Telecoms

KaiOS,  whose mobile operating system brings the internet to affordable devices, has announced a partnership with payment giant Mastercard to integrate a range of digital payments solutions for developing markets, beginning with Cote d’Ivoire and Nigeria.

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Cloud

HCL Tech

Cloud services are a broad category that includes any infrastructure, platform or software made available to organizations on the internet via third party or IT service providers. A cloud-based service is a resource, application or IT as a service provided over the internet, or cloud, via third party and IT service providers.

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Doug Dawson: Hurricane Helene Is Breaking the Blog Streak

Broadband Breakfast

Immediately after the storm hit a week ago, we lost power, Internet, cell service, and soon thereafter water. Doug Dawson, president of CCG Consulting, has worked in the telecom industry since 1978 and has both a consulting and an operational background. I feel like one of the lucky ones in that the family and our house is fine.

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AT&T’s suggestion that edge content providers contribute to funding universal service calls for new paradigm of U.S. advanced telecom

EldoTelecom

The seven largest and most profitable companies in the world built their franchises on the internet and the infrastructure we provide,” noted current AT&T CEO John Stankey in remarks this week to the USTelecom’s Leadership Summit posted at AT&T’s policy blog. There is no clear, long term policy in place to do so.