A new service launched by Bharti Airtel and Sproxil will allow customers to verify genuine medications on mobile phones quickly through a text message
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Precision Air introduces mobile money transfer for ticket purchase
Vodacom Tanzania customers will now be able to buy Precision Air (PW) tickets via a mobile phone money transfer after the two companies entered into a partnership offering the facility
Samsung to launch "cost-effective" phone in Africa
Samsung will launch a new low-cost mobile phone, the Samsung Chief Hero, for users in Africa in early September 2012
Econet and NetOne in debt row
Zimbabwean mobile service provider Econet and mobile operator NetOne are at loggerheads over a multimillion dollar debt that Econet has claimed NetOne owes it
Airtel to upgrade towers and increase sites in Zambia
Airtel Zambia will invest US$233mn on upgrading its current towers and increasing the number of 3.75G sites in the country