International Brands Versus Homegrown Ones
Do you love your international brands? What about local African brands, which ones do you favour? Is it ABC and BBC over ABN TV? ABN TV is a global key player providing African and Black content.
African phone pioneer Mi-Fone
Mi-Fone, billed as being Africa’s first devices brand, is now offering its smartphones to South African customers via an exclusive online shopping platform. Budget devices? Its latest cost conscious mobile device into South Africa. The company acknowledged that it is attempting to follow in the footsteps of Chinese success story Xiaomi - which sold over 20 million phones online in 2013. In Africa today basic feature phones are quickly being replaced by smarter devices. So will this device be taken up by the local market?
http://www.mobileworldlive.com/
http://www.mi-fone.mobi/en/ mi-Fone: The FIRST AFRICAN Mobile Devices Brand.
Edgars Mobile, Jet Cellular, Edgars Active and CNA Edcon launched a R900 Windows 8.1 handset it calls the ‘VERSSED W1′
Powered by Google’s Android operating system smartphones in South Africa has now the R900. Edcon is the largest non-food retailer in South Africa. Edcon takes the smartphone into the retailer arena.
http://www.htxt.co.za/
Mobile Payment Apps Take Off In South Africa
So cashless then cardless, South Africa's are leaving their wallets at home in favour of digital money apps. SnapScan has garnered the most attention, but the sector also includes the likes of FlickPay, Zapper and GustPay. The aim is to drive down the cost of electronic transactions and displace cash payments. Customers are making 230 million mobile payment transactions per month, compared to 45 million on the popular M-Pesa platform in Kenya.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
East Africa, Mobile and Telecoms
Kenyan operator Safaricom has successfully launched its latest LTE Advanced Network in Kenya. It will roll out the 4G services in Nairobi as well as Mombasa. LTE, an abbreviation for Long-Term Evolution, commonly marketed as 4G LTE, is a standard for wireless communication of high-speed data for mobile phones.
http://www.safaricom.co.ke/ Safaricom, which started as a department of Kenya Posts & Telecommunications Corporation, the former monopoly operator, was launched in 1993.
Africa's First Mobile Point of Sale (POS) Solution
STPL Global is Africa's leading software technology provider. With operations in multiple African countries. STPL Global will be launching Sub Saharan Africa's first mobile POS, mPOS solution in 17 African countries. moPOS will come with a small pocket size device that will pair with the merchant's smart phones. moPOS mobile app will be available on Android Play store. This is convergence of industries like technology, banking and telecommunications.
http://mo-pos.com/
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