African Mobile News December 2014
Beating the drum for a high tech Africa here is the news round up.
South African mobile consumer
The Media Online
Incredible computational speed at the palm of the hands, connecting to anywhere on the internet.
http://themediaonline.co.za
Ad engagement – 41% of South Africans on mobile phones will engage with an ad.
Africa: United Bank for Africa (UBA), Airtel Partner to Launch New Mobile Financial Services in Africa
http://www.allafrica.com
The range of innovative financial services extends to customers in the 12 countries where they are both present within Africa which include Nigeria, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Gabon, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Chad and Zambia, Congo Brazzaville and Congo DRC. .. create cash-lite..
Next Growth Frontier For Africa
A partnership between women and mobile phones could be the next big thing for Africa’s growth story. Women are better than men at repaying loans and saving money. Kenya is one of Africa’s leaders thanks to mobile phone-based financial services, such as Safaricom’s Mpesa.
http://www.ventures-africa.com
Africa Economy: Kenya's telecom firms battle for high-end smart phone market
Rivalry is between the East African nation's biggest mobile phone service providers Safaricom and Airtel. The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+ market. Two thirds of all mobile phones sold in Kenya currently are smart phones.
http://www.shanghaidaily.com
Mozambique among the three African economies with highest growth by 2019
. .. significant growth of the African middle class in the coming years – 40 million homes by 2030, in 11 of the region’s economies, but in a more pronounced way in Nigeria. The mobile phone market is one that has amongst the highest growth potential, with a total penetration growing to an expected 97 percent by 2017, 25 percentage points more than current penetration.
http://www.macauhub.com.mo
Opera Mediaworks acquires South Africa-based AdVine Mobile
http://ventureburn.com/
This is largely due to the fact that the browser works on many feature phones and smartphones. “Africa is positioned to become the mobile continent ...
The Opera Mini browser for instance attracts over 6-million monthly users in South Africa alone. This is largely due to the fact that the browser works on many feature phones and smartphones. This is an interesting time for Africa’s mobile space as both Facebook and Google have been launching campaigns to access the continent’s mobile users as well as other emerging markets.
http://www.advine.co.za/
Zambian teens turn to SMSes for AIDS advice
..thousands of bite-sized questions come through everyday. Zambia’s text message experiment is part of an international trend that is seeing medical services being provided via technology, with digitally savvy teens the quickest to adapt.
http://www.bdlive.co.za
Africa Mobile Subscriptions At 880m In Q3
Ericsson predicts that 85 per cent of Middle East and Africa mobile subscriptions would be 3G/4G by 2020
http://leadership.ng
Are smartphones the right gift for West Africa’s Ebola fight?
Technology giants including Google, Amazon and Ericsson, and techie charities such as the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation have donated thousands of smartphones for use across the region, where better communication is key to stopping the epidemic. Phones could end up overwhelming fragile digital networks and electrical grids. High-tech solutions are crucial to combating the Ebola outbreak.
http://www.politico.com/
Cell phones, learning and literacy in a South African township
Access to computers, internet, and landline telephones is limited among the poorer sections of the South African population. However, relatively many people in these communities have cell phones. The cell phone proved be to a useful learning tool so that learning moments could be fully adapted to the needs of the target group.
http://phys.org
Africa: Entrepreneurs Go Online to Boost Business in Africa
A website platform that would allow investors to buy shares through their mobile phones and the Internet. ..launch the site, Afritrade, in July
Nigerian Stock Exchange. ..Doing business in Africa is easier if the entrepreneur takes a long term approach..
http://diasporademo.com/
http://www.theafritrade.com/
Top European Mobile Maker, Fly, Expands to Africa after Witnessing Remarkable Growth in GCC
British-Designed Mobiles Arrive in Nigeria as Innovative Brand Looks to Capitalize on Growing West African Market
..ambitious expansion, with sights set on Iran, Egypt, and other African countries as future markets. ..Fly is a challenger brand, and we are bringing our latest handsets which are technologically advanced and stylish and are sure to appeal to the consumers in Nigeria.
http://www.zawya.com/
http://www.fly-phone.com/about/
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