Mobile Africa NewsNews from the mobile telecom industry in AfricaLagos to host African Mobile Marketing and Advertising Summit- May 21, 2008 The first annual African Mobile Marketing and Advertising Summit takes place next month in Lagos, Nigeria. Mobile service providers, media owners and advertising agencies will meet next month to discuss strategies to harness the power of mobile advertising in Africa.http://www.mobileafrica.net/n2079.htm Mi-Pay to Power Mobile Payments in Africa- May 11, 2008 Leading mobile payments provider Mi-Pay has signed a contract with an East African operator to deliver a mobile money ecosystem to its subscribers in rural communities. Mi-Pays technology and expertise will enable subscribers to benefit from international remittance services, as well as support a network of agents to support domestic payments via mobile.http://www.mobileafrica.net/n2080.htm New Micro-payment mechanism available to online vendors- May 8, 2008 The UK mobile payment initiative payforIT is expanding onto the World Wide Web with the help of leading mobile interactive specialist Dialogue Communications. The payforIT payment mechanism will offer shoppers an online payment alternative and enable internet merchants to reach new customers.http://www.mobileafrica.net/n2081.htm KLM selects End2End Connectivity for global SMS delivery- May 8, 2008 8th May 2008: The leading mobile messaging provider End2End Connectivity has today announced that it has been selected by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines to provide the SMS delivery of flight status notifications (FSN). End2End Connectivity takes care of the carrier grade high-quality delivery of the flight status notifications via SMS which will inform all KLM passengers that registered for this service via KLM.com on flight disruptions and service notifications immediately. End2End's deep-level...http://www.mobileafrica.net/n2082.htm Berg Insight says 186 million machines will be connected to mobile networks in 2012- May 6, 2008 Gothenburg, Sweden - May 06 2008: According to new a research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of cellular network connections used for machine-to-machine communication will grow from 37.5 million connections in 2007 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 37.9 percent to 186 million connections in 2012. GSM and legacy technologies currently dominate the market and accounted for about 71 percent of the total number of active connections at the end of 2007. CDMA was the...http://www.mobileafrica.net/n2084.htm 160 Characters Nominates Clickatell-Powered Metropolitan Cover2Go to Deliver Insurance Policies to Cell Phones- May 6, 2008 Redwood City, US: May 6, 2008 Clickatell, leading provider of global mobile messaging, today announced it was chosen as one of three finalists for "Best Messaging Business Application" by 160 Characters as part of their 2008 Mobile Messaging Awards. As one of three finalists in the Business Application category, Clickatell was chosen because of its work with Metropolitan's Cover2Go, who provides life insurance directly to customers' cell phones using SMS. The award winners will be presented at.http://www.mobileafrica.net/n2083.htm |