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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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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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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

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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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

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

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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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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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

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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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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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

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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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

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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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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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

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 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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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Ericsson announced on Friday announced that it has completed a major tech stack upgrade for Pakistan’s Telenor Microfinance Bank (TMB), giving its mobile wallet easypaisa a cloud-native platform on which to scale up its services.

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Developing Telecoms

DECEMBER 2, 2024

M-Pesa Africa – the mobile money JV between Safaricom and Vodacom Group – says that it’s expanding its partnership with global payment infrastructure provider Thunes to enable users in Kenya and Tanzania to use their M-Pesa wallet to make payments when traveling to China.

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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 30, 2024

News The sale, taking place over the next five years, will help the company improve its cash flow Kyocera, a Japanese manufacturer of telecom equipment and semiconductor materials, is planning to sell up to a third its stake in KDDI, Japan’s second largest telco, according to a Bloomberg article published today. trillion ($10.4

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HCL Tech

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The company’s strong alignment with CFO strategies, partner ecosystem and expertise in technology applications like digitalCOLLEAGUE , EXACTO™ and TOSCANA© , cements its status as a global leader in finance and accounting services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending September 2024 totaled $13.7

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 22, 2024

22, 2024 – A major cable industry group is warning that a proposed 60-day mobile phone unlocking standard could open the door to billions of dollars in fraud. “Handset fraud has blossomed into a billion-dollar industry: criminals obtain handsets under a subsidized/financed arrangement in the U.S., WASHINGTON, Oct.

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telecoms.com

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Bouygues Telecom has completed the acquisition of La Poste Mobile, its erstwhile owners having apparently come to some arrangement over the finances.

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VoIP Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

billion telecoms equipment agreement with Nokia , Ericsson , and Samsung. By collaborating with Samsung for the first time, and continuing its longstanding partnerships with Ericsson and Nokia, Vodafone Idea aims to deliver advanced mobile services to a broader audience while improving operational cost efficiency. billion to 1.2

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HCL Tech

DECEMBER 3, 2024

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VoIP Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Kyocera, a major Japanese manufacturer known for its telecom equipment and semiconductor offerings, is preparing to divest a significant portion of its holdings in KDDI , Japan’s second-largest telecommunications company. This strategic move aims to bolster Kyocera’s finances and improve cash flow. trillion ($10.4

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VoIP Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

to telecom infrastructure firm Vertical Bridge. The financing involves contributions from DigitalBridge, the parent company of Vertical Bridge, and CDPQ, a significant shareholder in Vertical Bridge. This could be particularly beneficial for mobile network operators looking to optimize their capital and operating expenditures.

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