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Articles tagged with: M Pesa
Kenyans Living in the UK Can Send Money to Mobile Phones in Kenya
Kenyans can now receive money from friends and family in the United Kingdom directly to their m-pesa mobile banking accounts. The launch of the international component of m-pesa, managed by Safaricom follows a successful pilot project with selected outlets in the UK. more
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Vodafone Appoints a Director of Mobile Payments
Vodafone Group has announced the appointment of a Director of Mobile Payments. The company is tapping Cenk Serdar, formerly the Chief VAS Officer of Turkcell where he worked on a wide range of new business opportunities including Mobile Internet and Mobile Messaging, as well as new services such as Mobile Payments, Mobile Marketing and Mobile Signature. more
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Vodacom Enables Payment of Electricity Bills Through Mobile Phones
Vodacom Tanzania subscribers are now able to pre-pay for their electricity via the m-pesa mobile payments service. This project is a joint venture between Vodacom Tanzania and the electricity generator, Tanesco. more
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Mobile money in emerging markets - still fragile but ready to become mass-market
Mobile Money could reach a one-third penetration rate within 5-years, says a new report from Ovum. The report finds the market is still in its infancy, yet it has the potential to become a mass-market service. However, much will hinge on how well the industry addresses various market barriers, and its ability to nurture user demand with clear, simple and attractive propositions. more
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Vodacom Tanzania Signs Local Bank for M-Pesa Mobile Banking Service
Vodacom Tanzania has officially signed up BOA Bank to provide Vodafone m-pesa services to its clientele. Both prepaid and post-paid Vodacom customers are able to open a Vodafone m-pesa account at no cost at any our authorised agents and now BOA Tanzania. Most importantly about Vodafone m-pesa, any person from any mobile subscriber can receive money via m-pesa on their mobile phone. more
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Mobile telephone subscriptions record sharp increase in The Gambia
APA-Banjul (The Gambia) The Gambia with a population of about 1.5 million people has more than 800,000 mobile subscribers but only about 50,000 fixed telephone lines in service, APA learns here Tuesday. more
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Mobile Banking for the Unbanked and the Financial Crisis
CGAP, the global microfinance center is releasing new research and data to encourage telecom operators, financial institutions and governments to see the business potential in expanding access to financial services for poor people in developing markets. The current economic climate makes the need for widespread availability of safe alternatives to cash even more pressing. more
Related Tags: sim, itu, lte, m-banking, mobile-banking
Kenyan Operator to Offer Mobile Money Transfers from the UK
Kenya's Safaricom and The Western Union Company are to pilot a cross-border Mobile Money Transfer (MMT) service between the UK and Kenya. This service will enable customers to send cross-border remittances from select locations directly to Safaricom mobile subscribers in Kenya generally in minutes. more
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Tanzania's Internet Cafes Using Vodacom HSPA Network for Backhaul
Vodacom Tanzania, supported by the GSMA Development Fund and Qualcomm has connected Internet cafes in three of Tanzania's cities to its HSPA mobile broadband network. Run by local entrepreneurs, each Internet cafe is equipped with several computer terminals connected to Vodacom's HSPA network, which can provide download speeds of up to 7.2 megabits per second. more
Related Tags: qualcomm, hspa, mobile-broadband, vodacom, gsma, Tanzania
Mobile Money Transfers to Exceed $5 Billion by 2013
A new analysis by Juniper Research forecasts that Service Provider revenues, derived from mobile money transfer services and remittances, will exceed $5 billion globally by 2013 -- based on the commissions and charges that they will acquire from the gross value of money transactions made, both domestically within countries and internationally. more
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