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Vodafone and Zain announce multi-country partner market agreement
Significantly expands Vodafone’s presence in the Middle East and provides Zain with greater access to Vodafone’s global footprint
Press release
September 3rd 2012. Vodafone Group and Zain Group have jointly announced a Partner Market agreement that will significantly expand Vodafone’s Partner Market presence in the Middle East and provide Zain customers with greater support in Vodafone’s global footprint. Under the non-equity partnership agreement, Vodafone will work with Zain companies in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan and Iraq to provide customers with high quality communications services. Continue reading
Vodafone India Intros Solar-Powered Handset
Review: Interesting but not actually the first solar-powered phone in India. What’s interesting is the emerging strategic possibility that Vodafone may be looking to differentiate themselves (and capture more wallet-share) with phone hardware Continue reading
Posted in BlackBerry, Current Affairs, HTC, India and Asia Pacific, Mobile Devices, Mobile Operators, Vodafone, ZTE, google, india, iphone
Tagged airtel, Bharti Airtel, BlackBerry Storm, solar, zain
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Arvato claims 0.5m paid for downloads per month
Rating: The trick is in having good free content, too
In the commercial world it’s all a question of supply and demand and in the case of mobile content, arvato mobile reckons it is supply that demand. And with over half a million paid downloads of apps and mobile games per month, the company reckons it amply supplying the demand for paid content on mobile. Continue reading
Posted in Games, Mobile Content, Mobile Operators, Mobile applications, android
Tagged android, Arvato Mobile, BlackBerry, gnab 2.0, java, Michael Krause, symbian, t-mobile, Vodafone, Windows Mobile, zain
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Mobile money roundup: NFC, SMS and Nokia
Nokia has partnered with another mobile payments firm. Three major companies have joined in Africa for a major mobile payment trial. Ericsson is pushing SMS as the medium for micro-payments for content producers… and more.
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Posted in Mobile Agencies, Mobile Devices, mobile news, mobile payments
Tagged ericsson, inside contactless, mobile finance, mobile manufacturer, mobile money, mobile payment, mobile sms, NFC, nokia, SMS, Tanla, visa, zain
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Mobile Money round-up: mobile apps, m-commerce and SMS
It has been a while since I’ve done a mobile money round-up, so I crammed seven stories into this one. We’ve got pieces about T-Mobile, Starbucks, Blackberry, US Bank and more. Enjoy! Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Agencies, mobile news, mobile payments
Tagged blacbkerry, mobile app, mobile application, Mobile Banking, mobile finace, mobile money, mobile transactions, mochi, monitise, starbuck, t-mobile, v-mac, zain, ZAP, Zong
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Mobile operator round-up: T-Mobile, Telefonica, take-overs and Tehran
Here’s the round-up of mobile operator moves, deals and mergers that have caught our attention from around the world, both from today and over the weekend. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Agencies, Mobile Operators, mobile news
Tagged Alcatel-Lucent, China Unicom, iran, mobile carrier, mobile network, mobile operator, orange, t-mobile, telefonica, zain
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Mobile operator round-up: fraud, 3G, and the FCC looks at big operators
There are plenty of juicy stories today about mobile operators around the world. Indian operators look ready to storm Africa, the FCC is asking questions about exactly how AT&T and Verizon come up with their price plans, and 8 people are being charged with massive fraud based on stolen data from T-Mobile and AT&T Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Agencies, Mobile Operators, mobile news
Tagged at&t, Bharti Airtel, mobile carrier, mobile network, mobile operator, MTN, oracle, t-mobile, Vodafone, zain
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RCom + Zain = big mobile operator deal
It was revealed yesterday that three companies were in talks with African mobile operator Zain. At the time, it was mentioned that one of these was an Indian company. Today, that company has been revealed as Reliance Communications. But what does that mean for the deal? Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Operators, mobile news
Tagged Africa, mobile carriers, mobile network, mobile operator, rcom, reliance communications, zain
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Mobile Money roundup: iPhone credit card transactions from Encore, and mobile banking in Africa
Here are three mobile money stories that caught our eye during the day. African operator Zain is further pushing it’s mobile payment capabilities with TV provider Multichoice; US-based Encore is enabling credit card payments for merchants over the iPhone; and a new service from Masabi and Mi-Pay aims to use mobiles to replace banks in poorer areas of Africa. Continue reading
Mobile Money roundup, and how your phone can save you from kidnappers
Here’s a quick look at the mobile money stories from around the world this morning. We’ve got a new mobile payment service in Kosovo; good news for African service Zain and mobile banking stats from comScore. Also: mobile payment service M-CodeOne has branched into anti-crime. Continue reading
Mobile banking update: Zain announces new service and Lloyds TSB updates old one
It has been a good start to the week for mobile banking. Over the weekend, huge African mobile network Zain announced a mobile money transfer service. And this morning, Lloyds TSB announced an update for it’s existing mobile banking service. Continue reading
GoMo Buzzwatch: With Ericsson contract in Africa, “managed services” are here to stay
While “managed services” contracts have been becoming more common in Europe over the last months, todays announcement of a contract between Ericsson and Zain Africa is the first such deal in Africa. Analysts are saying that this new deal is the final proof that managed services is a sustainable business model.
So what is a managed [...]
Zain Group sees ROI on Ringback Tone Solution in 10 days
8% of subscriber base subscribes to Ringback Tones within one month of launch
Cape Town, 18th November, 2008 – Jinny Software, a leading supplier of personalised messaging and media processing platforms to mobile network operators, today announced that its Ringback Tone Server solution has driven a tremendous 10-day return-on-investment (ROI) for a Zain Group operator in [...]
Zain selects Missed Call Notification from Jinny Software
Integrated Missed Call Notification and SMSC Functionality allows Zain to Handle Higher Volume Transmission
Dublin, 15th September, 2008 – Jinny Software, a leading supplier of personalised messaging and media processing platforms to mobile network operators, today announced that its Missed Call Notification (MCN) solution is live in Zain Jordan, part of the leading Middle East and [...]
Celtel Africa becomes Zain
Zain Group, the telecommunications mobile operator servicing over 50 million customers in 22 countries across the Middle East and Africa , today announced it has rebranded its entire African operations from Celtel to Zain. The move coincides with the linking of the world’s first borderless mobile service ‘One Network’ across two continents.
14 country operations across [...]
