F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
M-Pesa reaches 50 million monthly users – Vodafone
Vodafone has announced its M-Pesa mobile money platform has reached more than 50 million monthly users across the African continent. The company first launched…
Africa to fall from top spot as global mobile payments pass $235bn
Africa has led the world in mobile payments from the very start. A lack of wired infrastructure and large numbers of unbanked people with…
How M-Pesa disrupts entire economies
Back in 2011, I was asked to give my thoughts on what I thought would trend in mobile within between then and 2020. One…
NFC is the future of African mobile money
Mobile money has made more of an impact in Africa than a number of other emerging market regions. In fact, through services like Safricom’s…
