 | TANZANIA
[Tom Jackson] Tanzanian edutainment startup Ubongo has launched its Math Rats app, which aims to teach children mathematics skills... |
| ETHIOPIA  Image by 123RF Ethiopian taxi app RIDE pivots away from SMS, relaunching next year... |
| UGANDA  Image by 123RF Ugandan startup MOBFIT has developed GSM-supported agricultural supply chain software, able to directly connect smallholder rural farmers to buyers via SMS... |
 | TANZANIA
[Cobus van Zyl] I have been part of the 'banked' segment of civilization since I was five years old. I have tried it all, from savings to home-loans, vehicle finance to credit card... |
| KENYA
[Tom Jackson] The growing standoff between Safaricom, Kenya's biggest mobile operator, and the country's Ministry of ICT, led by minister Fred Matiangi, threatens to harm consumers and damage Kenya's economy unless it is solved in an amicable manner. |
 | KENYA
[Carole Kimutai] Kenyan mobile operator Safaricom has announced the completion of the switch off exercise for mobile handset owners with fake phones. A statement from the company says it had completed blocking of all counterfeit mobile phone handsets on its network. |
| KENYA
[Carole Kimutai] Kenyans are counting days before the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) switches off counterfeit phones at the end of September. According to the CCK, close to three million mobile phones in the Kenyan market are counterfeit - 10% of all the active mobile devices in the country. |
 | UGANDA  [Walter Wafula] Uganda mobile operator Warid Telecom has contracted India's Flytxt, a provider of global real-time closed loop mobile marketing solutions, to manage its marketing campaigns.
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| KENYA
[Carole Kimutai] The fight for the mobile phone market in Kenya is now about Apps. In a strategic move geared at boosting local technology entrepreneurship prospects, Samsung has confirmed plans to provide support to local developers deploying their applications on the popular Android platform. |
| KENYA
[Carole Kimutai] As election campaigns gain momentum in Kenya, fraudsters have come up with an ingenious way of deceiving unsuspecting mobile phone users. |
| UGANDA [Walter Wafula] Ugandans who subscribe to Orange Uganda's network can now access Wikipedia for free, according to the company publicist, Patience Tindyebwa. |
| KENYA  [Carole Kimutai] On Monday 5 September, managing director of mobile operator, Airtel Kenya, Rene Meza announced his resignation. In Kenya's highly competitive telecom sector that has only four players, Meza's exit was big news.
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| KENYA
[Carole Kimutai] MobiKash Afrika Limited, a private company incorporated in Kenya, has unveiled an innovative independent mobile commerce ecosystem. The platform will work across all Kenya's four GSM networks (Safaricom, Airtel, Orange, and Yu) and across participating banks. |
| KENYA
[Carole Kimutai] Barely two weeks after the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) launched the mobile number portability (MNP) service, one of the mobile players is crying foul. Airtel Kenya MD Rene Meza has raised a red flag saying several anti-competition tactics were being used to block customers seeking to move to its network. |
| KENYA [Carole Kimutai] yu, the mobile phone brand of Essar Telecom Kenya has added Facebook to its Peperusha platform making the social networking site available to subscribers without the need for an internet connection. |
| KENYA
[Carole Kimutai] Kenya's software developers active in developing mobile money applications are going to have a chance to showcase their products at this year's AITEC Banking and Mobile Money Conference in the Young Innovators Mobile Applications Hub, sponsored by Google. The event will be held 2-3 March 2011. The Hub is being organised by AITEC in partnership with iHub and the Kenya ICT Board. |
| KENYA
[Carole Kimutai] South African Tourism (SAT) has turned its marketing sights on the Kenyan market with the launch of a mobile site. Visitors to the mobisite will be required to register which means that they only receive information they are interested in. |
| KENYA
[Carole Kimutai] Safaricom has posted a KSh47.1 billion profit in the first half of its financial year that ended on 30 September 2010. The mobile operator continues to enjoy the lions share of the market with 17.71 million subscribers out of a total of 21.78 million. |
| KENYA
[Carole Kimutai] The mobile payment phenomenon has led to the rapid growth of small enterprises in Kenya and seen large corporates embracing mobile payments. However, according to business analyst and publisher of Ratiomagazine.com Andrea Bohnstedt, the big challenge is setting up a back office for client service and developing a sustainable business concept. |
| KENYA
[Carole Kimutai] Three years after Kenya's Safaricom launched its mobile money transfer service, MPesa, the company now has more than 11-million customers with money transfer worth KSh525-billion as of July 2010. The number of MPesa agents countrywide has risen to 19 502. |
