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Google to sign Internet deals with Kenya telcos
Google, through its Project Loon, has embarked on a global campaign to increase internet connectivity among the millions of people living in rural areas without ground stations and fibre connections.
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Kenya telecoms operators reject money tax
The operators were reacting to Treasury secretary Henry Rotich’s announcement last Thursday that he intends to increase excise tax on mobile money transfers from 10 per cent to 12 per cent.
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Telenor bets on Asia’s bottom-of-the-pyramid market
Norway's telecom operator expands presence in Myanmar, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
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- Asia Pacific
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Phone becomes a throw-in for mobile wallet app in South Africa
MyBucks, a company headquartered in Luxembourg that publicly trades in Frankfurt, was founded in 2011 to make microloans to small businesses.
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MTN Ghana makes history with first mobile money-based IPO
The IPO is the largest ever undertaken by the country and if successful could set the stage for other companies to test the market.
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Kenyan regulator could force Safaricom to share agents’ network
Safaricom, which is 35 percent owned by South Africa’s Vodacom, controls 72 percent of Kenya’s mobile market, with close to 30 million subscribers.
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Mobile Money Interoperability To Be Launched in Ghana On May 10th
The move by the Ghana Interbank Payment and settlement Systems (GhIPSS), Telcos and banks, was in response to a challenge thrown by the Vice President Bawumia, last year, for a mobile money interoperability to become a reality in Ghana.
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One of the world’s biggest mobile money services wants to become a social network
Kenya mobile network operator Safaricom is launching a platform that will allow its customers to send and receive money while they chat. The move is set to reinforce the dominance of the world’s mobile money transfer service M-Pesa, advance its ambition to become an innovative global business, while also facilitating a further connection between tens of millions of subscribers.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa