KCB and Safaricom launch mobile banking product
East Africa’s largest banking group Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) has partnered with Safaricom to create a new M-Pesa account for Kenyan customers
East Africa’s largest banking group Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) has partnered with Safaricom to create a new M-Pesa account for Kenyan customers
Orange and Airtel have agreed to collaborate to enable money transfers via mobile phones between Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso customers in West Africa
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At MWC 2015, Alcatel-Lucent demonstrated 5G, the critical step-change intended to enable future connectivity while ensuring the viability and sustainability of networks, revealing the product of five years of research to date by Bell Labs into the new standard
The two key developments at this years event, for an African communicator, are enterprise platforms and network performance