Developing Telecoms

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

PalmPay has announced the launch of its USSD code, a service that offers Nigerians an additional way to manage their finances without the need for internet connectivity.

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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

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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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

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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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. This will enable more tech brandsto meaningfully innovate in telecom, provide more value to their customers,and tap into a new recurring revenue stream.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2024

Ethio Telecom partnered with financial powerhouse Visa to launch the first Visa digital wallet in Ethiopia, a move the operator claimed modernises remittance and bolster its fintech business.

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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

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

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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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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Total Telecom

MARCH 28, 2025

Huaweis Telecom Foundation Model supports predictive and proactive O&M, experience optimization based on application-level awareness, and tailored, more fine-grained operations. 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

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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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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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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Developing Telecoms

MARCH 26, 2025

Ethio Telecom has announced a meeting with financial giant Mastercard to explore how the two companies can leverage technology to upgrade digital financial services.

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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

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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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 15, 2025

Globe Telecom has moved forward with its acquisition of a 50% stake in AB Capital Securities Inc (ABCSI), aiming to strengthen the stock brokerage capabilities of its fintech unit, Mynt, which operates the widely used GCash mobile wallet.

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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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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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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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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. The decisions haven’t stopped the FCC’s Democratic majority from enacting rules over the objections of the telecom industry, but ISPs have had some success taking up the new avenues of attack in court.

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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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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

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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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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