Developing Telecoms

APRIL 28, 2025

Operator Ethio Telecom, in partnership with Siinqee Bank, an Ethiopian provider of banking and microfinance services, has launched a new range of mobile financial services and smartphone financing solutions.

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VoIP Review

JUNE 3, 2025

U Mobile , a key player in Malaysia’s telecom industry, has taken a significant step towards advancing its 5G infrastructure. This financing will accelerate the deployment of U Mobiles 5G network, targeting 80% coverage across populated areas by July 2026. Governmental shifts have also favored U Mobile.

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Total Telecom

MARCH 4, 2025

These solutions include fast equipment Centre Offices (COs) modernisation solution, intelligent operations solution for MBB cross-domain service keepalive, mobile network NPS improvement solution, differentiated service experience monetisation and assurance solution, and enhanced Mobile Money solution.

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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

JUNE 11, 2025

MTN Uganda announced plans on Wednesday to hold an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) on July 2 to discuss and vote on the proposed spinoff of its mobile money and fintech business, MTN MoMo, from its core telecoms operations.

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RCR Wireless

JANUARY 16, 2025

U Mobile received approval from the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission last November to operate as the countrys second 5G provider Malaysian operator U Mobile has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with local bank CIMB Bank Berhad (CIMB) with the aim of extending financing support for its upcoming 5G network rollout.

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Total Telecom

MARCH 19, 2025

At Huaweis Industrial Digital and Intelligent Transformation Summit , hosted this year at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Leo Chen , Huaweis Corporate Senior Vice President and President of Enterprise Sales moved to address these pain points, presenting a framework for accelerating intelligent transformation across industries.

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Broadband Breakfast

MAY 1, 2025

Private investment: Progress and remaining challenges To reach the current 75% coverage rate , European operators have invested close to €120 billion in FTTH deployment, with 57% of this capital originating from alternative operators—primarily funded through private financing. Nevertheless, significant gaps remain.

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Total Telecom

AUGUST 16, 2024

Through our two concepts, Buymycharger.com and Leasemycharger.com, we offer our private, professional, and public authority customers a complete solution for financing (purchase and lease with purchase option), services, and installation of charging stations for electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids. To my astonishment, no solution existed.

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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 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 18, 2024

Hormuud Telecom strengthened its EVC Plus mobile money platform by making it interoperable with MyBank and Agro Bank, with plans to onboard more banks in 2025.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO, 12th of December 2024 Gigs , the operating system for mobile services, today announced that it has raised a $73M Series B led by Ribbit Capital. Democratizing Access To The Mobile Service Market Gigs is radically democratizing access to the mobile service industry.

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Total Telecom

MAY 20, 2025

Istanbul, Turkey, 20 May 2025 Etiya , a leading CX-focused, AI-driven Digital Transformation provider, has extended and expanded its strategic partnership with Fizz Mobile , a fast-growing Canadian mobile, internet, and TV provider. www.etiya.com About Fizz Fizz is a mobile carrier in a class of its own with an all-online experience.

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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

JUNE 12, 2025

Mobile network coverage now extends to 84% of the population, yet only 25% are actively connected, leaving a 59% usage gap. Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing a paradox in its financial transformation.

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RCR Wireless

JUNE 2, 2025

U Mobile aims to achieve 80% 5G coverage across populated areas in Malaysia by July 2026 In sum what you need to know: U Mobile secures major 5G funding CIMB Bank will lead a RM4B financing facility, committing RM1.5B directly, to support U Mobiles accelerated 5G network deployment.

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Developing Telecoms

DECEMBER 3, 2001

Malaysian telco U Mobile announced on Friday it has appointed CIMB Bank to facilitate and arrange financing of up to MYR4 billion (almost US$940 million) to support the nationwide deployment of its 5G network infrastructure.

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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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Developing Telecoms

APRIL 10, 2025

Axian Telecom is set to receive a financing package of US$100 million from the European Investment Bank (EIB Global) to help expand its mobile broadband infrastructure across Madagascar and Tanzania.

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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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Developing Telecoms

APRIL 20, 2025

Yet another financial innovation using mobile telecommunications has been introduced in Africa. This time, it's an investment product from Ugandas MTN Mobile Money (MTN MoMo), a mobile financial service provider.

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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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Telecoms Tech News

JANUARY 8, 2025

Outgoing FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel is calling for a quick spectrum auction to finance the removal and replacement of Chinese telecoms equipment. The issue has been thrust back into the spotlight following the Salt Typhoon revelations that found Beijing-linked threat groups had compromised US telecoms networks.

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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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Rural Broadband Association

MAY 22, 2025

Last year, we collaborated on a special mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) solution exclusively for NTCA members. Under this arrangement, NTCA members have exclusive access to special financing for devices, an activation credit for new mobile subscribers and marketing support to promote their bundled offering and help drive subscribers.

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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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Total Telecom

MARCH 28, 2025

solutions for the mobile AI era Secondly, Cao Ming, Vice President of Huawei and President of Huawei Wireless Solution, took to the stage to discuss the interplay between AI and 5.5G. 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

MAY 14, 2025

Digicel Pacific announced on Wednesday that it has launched a Pacific Transfers service for its MyCash mobile wallet that it says enables direct, fast and relatively cheap money transfers via mobile between users in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu.

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VoIP Review

JANUARY 23, 2025

U Mobile is setting ambitious plans in motion to implement the countrys second 5G network, remarkably without state funding or new local partnerships. “Lets revisit this in 15 to 18 months and reassess what ‘struggle’ means,” he asserted, demonstrating confidence in U Mobiles financial strategies.

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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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Total Telecom

OCTOBER 4, 2024

News The Italian government are said to be focusing investment on critical national infrastructure The Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) and Retelit, a subsidiary of the Spanish Asterion Infrastructure Fund, has made €700 offer for Sparkle, Telecom Italia’s subsea cable unit, the company has announced this week Negotiations are ongoing, (..)

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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

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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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. T-Mobile generally locks phones until they’re paid off but committed to unlocking Mint Mobile phones after 60 days as a merger condition. The deal closed in May. 

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