@Prepaid Africa Connecting Dots – September 2015
The biggest news for the world’s Africa watchers this September has ironically been the UN’s General Assembly and 70th Anniversary festival held with great fanfare in New York this past week. Global powers attempted to shake hands and agreed to keep our planet sustainable for a little while longer. We’re holding our breath. Many aren’t […]
Où se trouvent les plus grands consommateurs en Afrique?
Proud to introduce our newest contributor, Ms Yacine Bio-Tchane of Cotonou, Benin. She will be writing on the business perspective from Francophone Africa, mostly in French. If you’d like to see a post translated, leave us a comment! Une récente étude de la firme de conseil A.T. Kearney a classé 48 pays africains selon leur […]
Connecting the Continent: Mobile Money across Africa
With much less fanfare than banking and accounts, a quieter revolution has been taking place on the electronic pathways connecting people in African regions. Historically competitive telcos are shaking hands and joining forces on mobile money. Interoperability has long been a dream and it is only now that we see things starting to take shape. […]
The maturing of the African mobile phone market Feb 2008 to Nov 2010
This post has been percolating through my mind for the last couple of days, its time to attempt setting it out in words for a stab in the dark at some clarity. The trigger was the recent hue and cry over Nokia’s percieved downfall as the calculated global market share for the device manufacturer dropped […]
