Ayoba and MusicTime announced their new partnership to bring free music listening, with the launch of a new feature in the ayoba app. MusicTime in ayoba is live in South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Rwanda, Uganda, Congo Brazzaville, Guinee, Guinee Bissau, Sudan and Afghanistan. Each country offers ayoba users’ free access to 10 playlists with [...]
Telkom South Africa and Telenor inked a roaming deal to allow Telkom to develop roaming products for retail subscribers. The CEO of Telkom’s Wholesale division, Openserve, Althon Beukes, said Telenor was selected due to its “extensive roaming coverage combined with its vast experience and competence,” which is “significant in offering our end users with the [...]
Huawei Angola plan to invest $60 million to build a headquarter for training and promotion of digital education for public schools’ student in partnership with mobile operator, Unitel. Eunice de Carvalho, General Director of Unitel and Liuhongzhen Michael, Deputy CEO of Huawei announced a two-year memorandum by supplying equipment and technological solutions by Huawei while [...]
Sky News Arabia rolled out mobile-friendly vertical viewing and streaming via its website, Android and iOS applications part of its digital transformation targeting at enhancing user experience. Research has shown that more than half of all video is now consumed on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Suresh Kumar, Director of Technology at Sky [...]
Netflix has introduced two new subscriptions plans for the South African market, aiming at mobile devices. The mobile plans will start at R39 per month and will offer subscribers the possibility to stream on smartphones and tablets. The more expensive plan will cost at R59 per month with the ability to watch Netflix on the [...]
Saudi-based telco stc has deployed the first 5G standalone and 5G voice over new radio service in live network in MENA. The expansion will allow stc to offer enhanced data and voice services over an agile, cloud native, next generation end-to-end 5G network. According to stc, the 5G SA core network is an absolute paradigm [...]
OTT platform Weyyak has inked a content agreement with Huawei which will enable Huawei and Honor device users to access Arabic content on Huawei Video in Egypt and the UAE. Device users will have the opportunity to enjoy more than 18,000 hours of premium Arabic content like series, films and TV shows through Huawei Video [...]
Sirius Telecom Afrique, a telecom engineering, IT, and digital services company, inked on August 31 a hosting contract as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator MVNO with the National Telecom Company (Sonatel) of Senegal. Sirius Telecom Afrique can now launch its voice and broadband Internet services in Senegal via its brand Promobile. Sirius Telecom Africa considers [...]
South African mobile operator Cell C has reported that it expects to close around 128 stores across the country. Not surprisingly perhaps, a Cell C spokesperson has pointed to changes in the retail environment and the effects of the coronavirus as part of the reason for the shift from physical retail. The company is in [...]
Telecommunications group Airtel Africa has partnered with cross-border payments and transfers provider MoneyGram to expand its mobile money service. This initiative will allow customers in 12 countries to transfer and received MoneyGram around the world into their mobile money wallets on their phone. The provider of telecommunications and mobile money services stated that the partnership with person-to-person [...]
