SPI International / FilmBox has entered into new channel distribution agreements across Africa with Azam TV, the MTN Group and habeshaview. Platform subscribers will be able to access eight SPI / FilmBox channels, including Hollywood FilmBox Africa. Channel distribution agreements also include FilmBox Arthouse, Gametoon, Fightbox, Fast & FunBox, DocuBox, FashionBox and 360 TuneBox. “We [...]
MTN mobile operator South Africa, leader of the national telecommunications market, announces the extension of its roaming agreement with telecommunications company Cell C, the third largest operator in the market in terms of shares, to the entire national territory In addition to the coverage area, the new agreement between MTN and Cell C incorporates the [...]
ZTE and MTN signed a memorandum of understanding at the unveiling of their 5G joint showcase at AfricaCom in Cape Town. South Africa’s Vice Minister of Communications, Pinky Kekana, launched a synthetic speed test to achieve a download speed of over 1.3 Gbps and a download speed of 90 Mbps. The test has been configured [...]
MTN South African mobile operator, together with Huawei, launched its 5G C-Band trial on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 as part of its 5G network upgrade plan. C- Band also called “golden band” for the 5G spectrum, is considered a value spectrum slice and includes a frequency range of about 3.3 to 3.8 GHz. Many countries [...]
Liquid Telecom is one of the few networks in South Africa to have a radio frequency range for deploying 5G, and plans to use it. “Only three companies have spectrum: Rain, Telkom, and Liquid,” said the head of strategy for Liquid Telecom South Africa, Willie Oosthuizen The three companies will probably use their spectrum advantage. [...]
The mobile phone operator, MTN Nigeria, has increased the pressure one notch in the telecommunications market. The company, still the leader in terms of subscribers and revenues, launched 4G + in the states of Lagos, Abuja and Port-Harcourt. This increase in the capacity of its telecom network was achieved by combining the 800 MHz frequency [...]
King Goodwill Zwelithini will roll out a new mobile network in South Africa on 1 November – Bayede Mobile. Bayede is a Zulu salutation that means ‘hail the king’, and is already used in brands that have been approved by the King Zwelithini’s – such as Bayede! Wines. The company was created from a strategic [...]
MTN will launch e-SIM technology for postpaid subscribers. At the moment, only iPhones and certain smartwatches support e-SIMs in South Africa. Vodacom introduced the technology in March. An eSIM is a SIM that is inserted into the hardware of your device (a phone or wearable) so that your phone or wearables can connect to a [...]
MTN and biNu announced a partnership that will enable mobile subscribers in South Africa to access websites and apps #datafree. Rather than using their own mobile data to visit and interact with sites or apps, mobile subscribers in South Africa can now have their data paid for by participating digital content and application owners, thanks to biNu’s [...]
MTN recently launched the first Chatbot in Ivory Coast, to perform mobile money transactions via WhatsApp. Eva de MoMo is the new Chatbot based on AI technology. Eva plays the role of virtual assistant and is able to interact with mobile money subscribers via WhatsApp. Eva does mobile money (MoMo) transactions such as balance consultation, [...]