Developing Telecoms

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Leading financial services platform Mukuru has announced the launch of its new mobile wallet in Malawi, the Mukuru Wallet, which, Mukuru says, is designed to address the growing demand for a convenient, secure, efficient way to manage funds and make money transfers.

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Developing Telecoms

JANUARY 13, 2025

Financial services platform Mukuru says it has launched a mobile wallet in Zimbabwe called Mukuru Wallet. This follows Mukurus award of a Deposit-Taking Microfinance Institution (DTMFI) licence in the country by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.

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Developing Telecoms

AUGUST 22, 2024

Ethio Telecom partnered with financial powerhouse Visa to launch the first Visa digital wallet in Ethiopia, a move the operator claimed modernises remittance and bolster its fintech business.

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Developing Telecoms

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Madagascar’s three mobile money operators – MVola, Orange Money and Airtel Money – have denounced plans by the government’s Directorate General for Taxes (DGI) to tax mobile money transactions, which they say will discourage financial inclusion and harm the economy.

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Developing Telecoms

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Brazil-based digital bank platform Nubank announced plans on Tuesday to join Brazil's increasingly crowded mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) space in a bid to expand its portfolio beyond financial services.

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Total Telecom

MARCH 28, 2025

Huaweis Telecom Foundation Model supports predictive and proactive O&M, experience optimization based on application-level awareness, and tailored, more fine-grained operations. In the mobile AI era, mobile networks must support the fast expansion of AI applications, addressing three major transformations in the industry.

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Developing Telecoms

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Mobile money services MTN MoMo in South Africa and EcoCash in Zimbabwe have partnered to provide what are described as effortless direct cash transfers between the two countries.

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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 10, 2024

News The move is the largest direct foreign investment in Ukraine since the war began This week, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) have confirmed they will jointly invest $435 million into Ukraine’s newest converged telco.

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Developing Telecoms

OCTOBER 8, 2024

MTC Namibia launched its mobile financial service, MTC Maris, as the Namibian government hailed the operator for “stepping ahead” of its rivals, while urging them to follow suit in order to connect the fifth of the population that remains unbanked.

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Developing Telecoms

MARCH 26, 2025

Ethio Telecom has announced a meeting with financial giant Mastercard to explore how the two companies can leverage technology to upgrade digital financial services.

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Developing Telecoms

MARCH 10, 2025

Vietnamese telco VNPT announced on Sunday that its digital services unit, VNPT-Media, has signed a partnership deal with Visa to develop advanced digital payment solutions and boost financial inclusion for consumers and SMBs in Vietnam.

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Total Telecom

AUGUST 9, 2024

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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Developing Telecoms

APRIL 15, 2025

Globe Telecom has moved forward with its acquisition of a 50% stake in AB Capital Securities Inc (ABCSI), aiming to strengthen the stock brokerage capabilities of its fintech unit, Mynt, which operates the widely used GCash mobile wallet.

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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 4, 2024

If accepted, the deal could significantly reduce TIM’s debt burden and provide the company with the financial flexibility to invest in its core operations and future growth.

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Developing Telecoms

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Smart Communications, the mobile arm of Philippine telco PLDT, is reportedly making moves to relaunch its original mobile money app, Smart Money, in an apparent bid to directly take on rival telco Globe Telecoms GCash.

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Total Telecom

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

This was “primarily due to lower revenue, higher specific costs and higher net finance expenses,” the company explained. In response, CEO Allison Kirkby outlined several measures to mitigate this impact, including potentially passing costs on to mobile and broadband customers. Reported profit before tax sits at £1 billion, down 10%.

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Developing Telecoms

AUGUST 19, 2024

North Korea’s Pyongyang Information Technology Bureau is reportedly conducting inspections of the country’s electronic payments network to update equipment and stabilize operations in a drive to boost confidence in the country's transition to digital finance.

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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Keep up to date with the latest international telecoms news by subscribing to the Total Telecom daily newsletter Also in the news: Hurricane Helene knocks out a fifth of mobile sites in US Southeast Vodafone Germany leans into fibre infrastructure sharing to reach 11m EE activates 25 Freshwave small cells in London

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Developing Telecoms

AUGUST 6, 2024

Paymentology, a card issuing and processing platform, has announced a partnership with Salaam Bank’s Waafi in Somalia.

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Developing Telecoms

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The central banks of Cambodia and Malaysia have launched the first phase of a cross-border payments system that initially enables Cambodian travellers to purchase good and services in Malaysia using QR codes.

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Developing Telecoms

APRIL 16, 2025

Another initiative relevant to MEA mobile finance has been launched. This time global digital payments and commerce platform PayPal has announced a strategic partnership with TerraPay, a global money movement company, to enable real-time fund transfers for PayPal customers across the Middle East and Africa (MEA).

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Total Telecom

AUGUST 29, 2024

Malaysia’s five major mobile operators – CelcomDigi, Maxis, U Mobile, Telekom Malaysia, and YTL Communications – were initially highly resistant to working with DNB, arguing that they could rollout 5G infrastructure far more effectively as individuals. Fadzil says the government is likely to choose a winner by the end of the year.

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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 7, 2024

billion that the company raised in April and May via equity financing , and it is quickly putting these funds to good use. However, Vi did successfully raise $4.4 Last month, Vi inked a $3.6 billion network equipment deal with Nokia, Ericsson, and Samsung. The deal will see the vendors supply Idea with equipment over the next three years.

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Total Telecom

JANUARY 21, 2025

London, 21 st January 2025 Cerillion (AIM: CER), a leading provider of BSS/OSS-as-a-Service solutions to the telecoms industry, today announced a major new contract with Ucom, one of the leading telecommunications providers in Armenia. It operates large 4G+ and 5G mobile networks, extended fixed fibre network and up-to-date IPTV service.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

T-Mobile met with agency staff last week to reiterate its position that the rule would block a planned phone unlocking mandate. The decisions haven’t stopped the FCC’s Democratic majority from enacting rules over the objections of the telecom industry, but ISPs have had some success taking up the new avenues of attack in court.

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Developing Telecoms

MARCH 28, 2025

Vodacom Lesotho has expanded its M-Pesa mobile money service to all users in the country, regardless of which mobile network they subscribe to, in a bid to increase financial inclusion.

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Total Telecom

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

billion telecoms equipment deal with Ericsson, Nokia, and Samsung. Idea says this will not only allow the company to offer more advanced mobile services to a wider audience, but will also improve the network’s power efficiency, thereby delivering cost savings. billion Idea raised in April and May via equity financing.

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Developing Telecoms

AUGUST 6, 2024

MTN Nigeria says it has taken full ownership of Mobile Money Payment Service Bank (MoMo PSB) after buying the 7.17% share owned by Acxani Capital for around NGN6.95 billion (US$4.36 million).

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Developing Telecoms

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

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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Developing Telecoms

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Global payment infrastructure provider Thunes said on Tuesday it has expanded its collaboration with Philippine mobile payments platform GCash to enables users to top up their wallet balances directly within the app using funds from UK and European bank accounts.

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VoIP Review

AUGUST 21, 2024

NTT DoCoMo , a leading Japanese mobile network operator, has successfully tested a hybrid quantum-computing-based network optimization solution from D-Wave Quantum. Potential areas include finance, retail, traffic, and logistics. The post DoCoMo and D-Wave Elevate Telecom with Quantum Optimization appeared first on VoIP Review.

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Developing Telecoms

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Globe Telecom president and CEO Ernest Cu said on Monday that unauthorized transactions that affected some GCash wallet users in the Philippines over the weekend were the result of a glitch, and that no funds were lost.

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Developing Telecoms

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) says that Mastercard has partnered with its fintech subsidiary U Microfinance Bank (UBank) to issue a new physical and virtual debit card for its mobile financial services platform UPaisa.

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Developing Telecoms

JANUARY 19, 2025

Chinese handset maker Oppo has reportedly apologised to customers in Thailand after admitting to the telecoms regulator that its devices came with pre-installed loan apps that had not been approved by the Bank of Thailand (BOT).

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Developing Telecoms

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Kenyan and Ethiopian service provider Safaricom has extended its M-Pesa Global service – which enables M-Pesa registered customers to send and receive money globally – to Ethiopia, allowing customers make mobile money transactions from Kenya to Ethiopia.

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Developing Telecoms

DECEMBER 2, 2024

MTN Rwanda's fintech arm, Mobile Money Rwanda (MoMo Rwanda), has partnered with payment giant Mastercard to launch a new virtual payment solution in Rwanda.

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Developing Telecoms

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has enabled prepaid payment instruments (PPIs) to make unified payments interface (UPI) transactions via third-party mobile applications, a concept that may sound arcane on first glance, but one that could speed up the money transfer process in India.

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