Orange, a French telecommunications company, will accelerate its multi-service operator strategy in Africa with innovations to democratise access to smartphones, promote e-education and support the start-up ecosystem
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OPIC supports African cellular company with US$100mn loan
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Western Union signs mobile money deal with Kenya’s Safaricom
Safaricom, Kenya’s leading mobile network operator and provider of M-PESA, and the Western Union Company, a leader in cross-border and cross-currency money movement, have partnered to unlock global money transfers for more than 28mn mobile wallet holders, by leveraging Western Union® global money movement platform
Telcos can play a central role in AI market: Whitepaper
Telecoms operators can take advantage of the AI revolution by optimising their own business activities and acting as ‘technical’ AI platform enablers for other industries, which are expected to spend US$15bn annually on AI business operations by 2021
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