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Olivet Cloud retail and POS app for Sub-Saharan Africa
Olivet Cloud has launched KudiGo, a mobile-based retail management POS application for micro-SMEs in the consumer retail space in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Clickatell, an authorised WhatsApp business solution provider, has announced that United Bank for Africa (UBA) will be going live with their chat banking solution – Leo on WhatsApp
OpenSignal publishes State of Mobile Network South Africa analysis
OpenSignal, a mobile analytics company, has published the new State of Mobile Network South Africa where the company analyses the 3G and 4G consumer experience on Cell C, MTN, Telkom and Vodacom
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Ericsson and Swisscom, the leading telecommunications provider in Switzerland, have stepped up their 5G technology by accomplishing Europe’s first end-to-end, multivendor 5G Non-Standalone (NSA) data call on 3.5 GHz band in Burgdorf
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