mobile money
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Airtel Money Tanzania will partner with TerraPay to enable its customers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to make purchases at points of sale terminals. -
Safaricom Ethiopia’s mobile money service M-PESA is now live for Android users in the country, with an iOS version set to follow.
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M-Pesa, the pioneering mobile money platform run by Safaricom and the Vodacom group, is now run from a cloud operations centre in Kenya.
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Safaricom Ethiopia is to challenge incumbent operator Ethio Telecom with its own mobile money platform, M-Pesa.
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Nigerian operators are threatening to cut off banks providing mobile financial services because they say they have not paid their bill.
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UK-based e-commerce company Bango has acquired the global payments business of mobile operator NTT DoCoMo for only €4 million in cash.
Forthcoming events
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Ethiopia has received 12 expressions of interest (EoI) from nine telecom and two non-telecom operators looking to secure a partial stake in the country’s telecommunications industry.
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Burkina Faso and Morocco have become the latest markets to be added to the list of countries Orange France customers can send direct financial transfers to.
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Airtel Africa has recorded US$3.422 million in revenue in its full year results, an 11.2% increase, following growth in all three of its business services.
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New legislation passed in Ethiopia will allow telecommunications companies to step into the non-bank financial services space by bringing basic services to mobile customers through their devices.
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MTN has launched its mobile financial services in Nigeria, targeting 98 million mobile customers.
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Botswana Telecommunications Corporation (BTC) has revived its mobile payment service, running on Comviva’s Mobiquity Money platform.
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Mobile money pioneer Michael Joseph has returned as interim CEO of Kenya’s Safaricom following the death yesterday of Bob Collymore.
