Connectivity - Mobile Operators Push for U.S.$20 3G Enabled Smartphones
[Vanguard] Cape Town -Although the number of smartphones in Africa currently stands at 160 million, according to the latest report by the GSMA, to achieve more mobile connectivity in the sub-Saharan...
View ArticleGrowth in Africa’s mobile subscriptions is slowing down—but tower sharing can...
Africa’s mobile connections may be edging closer to the one-billion mark, but growth in unique mobile subscribers—the number of individuals that have subscribed to a mobile service—will slow down over...
View ArticleMobile phones 'transforming' Africa but growth to slow: study
The rapid spread of mobile phones across Sub-Saharan Africa is transforming the region, but record levels of growth are due to slow sharply, an industry report said this week. The industry contributed...
View ArticleMobile phones ‘transforming’ Africa but growth to slow
Cape Town, October 9 The rapid spread of mobile phones across Sub-Saharan Africa is transforming the region, but record levels of growth are due to slow sharply, an industry report said this week. The...
View ArticleMobile phones ‘transforming’ Africa
CAPE TOWN: The rapid spread of mobile phones across Sub-Saharan Africa is transforming the region, but record levels of growth are due to slow sharply, an industry report said this week. The industry...
View ArticleWorld needs more steps towards greener GDP
OSLO: Governments took a step towards greener economic growth in 2014 but will need to do far more to limit rising temperatures to a United Nations goal of two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), a study...
View ArticleAfDB stages first Tech Innovation Weekend in Côte d’Ivoire (African...
(Source: African Development Bank Group) The African Development Bank (AfDB) hosted an inaugural Innovation Weekend at its headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, from October 9-11. The goal: to find...
View ArticleMobile Phones Boost Insurance Sales
More people are signing up for insurance products using their mobile operator, thereby deepening the penetration rate for micro-insurance in the country over the past three years. A 2014 National...
View ArticleChina to set new plan for troubled economy
BEIJING: China’s Communist rulers will gather later this month, state media said on Monday, to set a course for the world’s second-largest economy over the next five years, as slowing growth raises...
View ArticleGrowing population worsens Africa's extreme poverty: report
CAPE TOWN, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- A rapid rise in population has led to an increases in the overall number of extreme poor in Africa, the World Bank said in a report released on Friday. But the report...
View ArticleIslamic finance growth to slow over low oil price: S&P
DUBAI: The fast-growing Islamic finance industry is set to slow down next year over the sharp fall in oil revenues and rapid regulatory changes, Standard and Poor’s Ratings Services said on Monday. “We...
View ArticleMobile Generating Economic Growth
[Ethiopian Herald] The mobile industry continues to grow rapidly, with a total of 3.6 billion mobile subscribers at the end of 2014. Half of the world's population now has a mobile subscription up from...
View ArticleOver 50pc of Asia-Pacific region’s population may become urban by 2018: report
ISLAMABAD: The Asia-Pacific region will no longer be understood as predominantly rural by 2018 when its population is expected to become more than 50 per cent urban, says ‘the State of Asian and...
View ArticleNEW GSMA STUDY SEES ACCELERATING MOBILE BROADBAND AND SMARTPHONE ADOPTION...
(Source: GSMA - GSM Association) October 20, 2015 Press Release Mobile Operators Investing in Networks, Jobs and Innovation Throughout the Arab States Dubai: Mobile broadband networks will support more...
View ArticleDebate: Is Africa Still Rising? (GE - General Electric Capital Corporation)
(Source: GE - General Electric Capital Corporation) Here are five elements investors should examine to assess whether growth across African markets is sustainable. There are clear limitations of the...
View ArticleFata as a province
FATA is being governed under the infamous Frontier Crimes Regulations, making it a buffer zone of misplaced strategic orientations. It has been used as a launching pad for regional surrogates and...
View ArticleSecuring the Needed Spectrum to Drive Africa's Mobile Economy
[New Times] Exponential growthof mobile services has transformed the lives of millions of people in Africa, and demand for mobile shows no signs of slowing. According to the latest GSMA research,...
View ArticleGSMA WELCOMES BALTIC GOVERNMENTS’ COMMITMENT TO HARMONISING SECOND DIGITAL...
(Source: GSMA - GSM Association) London: John Giusti, Deputy Chief Regulatory Officer, GSMA, commented on the outcome of the Baltic Sea Summit regarding the Second Digital Dividend (700MHz band), which...
View ArticleChina’s economic growth declines to six-year low
BEIJING: China’s economy decelerated in the latest quarter but stronger spending by consumers who are emerging as an important pillar of growth helped to avert a deeper downturn. The world’s...
View ArticlePunjab reforming skill development for employment generation
ISLAMABAD: The Punjab government has decided to reform the skills development sector and is creating a focal agency for skills development in an effort to increase the rate of employment creation in...
View ArticleWorld economy on verge of tumbling into dollar recession
A STRONG US dollar combined with slowing global growth is set to plunge the world into its first outright US dollar recession since 2009, according to an analysis of International Monetary Fund data...
View ArticleThe importance of being Africa
Some years ago, a socially mobile Indian Foreign Service officer in charge of the high-profile external publicity division (XP), whose penchant for publicity of the Page 3 kind irked the then foreign...
View ArticleMega beer merger bets on the rise of African drinkers
LONDON (AP) Charles Kwara and his friends sit around an earthenware pot, sipping a frothy gray drink through long straws as laughter fills the Charismatic Club in the slums of Kampala, Uganda's...
View ArticleNEW GSMA REPORT SEES NORTH AMERICA LEADING GLOBAL ADOPTION OF NEW MOBILE...
(Source: GSMA - GSM Association) October 27, 2015 Press Release Operator Investment in 4G Networks Driving Huge Data Growth Across Region with High Smartphone Usage; Mobile Industry Contributing...
View ArticleAdjust policies to fight slow growth, IMF tells Africa
JOHANNESBURG: The IMF on Tuesday called on sub-Saharan Africa, one of the world’s fastest growing regions in recent years, to start adjusting policies in line with new economic realities of slowing...
View ArticleiPOP calls for consultation with all stakeholders on cyber-crimes bill
QUETTA: The Internet Policy Observatory Pakistan (iPOP) has urged the government to consult all stakeholders about the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill, 2015. “Civil society organisations and IT...
View ArticleLess poverty in Africa but numbers remain stubbornly high
ACCRA, Ghana (AFP) -- Poverty has slightly eased in sub-Saharan Africa over the past 20 years but the population boom means the numbers living in extreme conditions remains stubbornly high, a World...
View ArticleInfant, 8 other Gypsies die in mobile home fire
DUBLIN: Irish police say nine people, including an infant, have died in a fire at a mobile home camp for Ireland’s native Gypsies. Detectives say they...
View ArticleMan’s kidney stolen by relatives
RAWALPINDI, Oct: When Babar Shahzad came to Rawalpindi from Lahore in February, he was unemployed and hoping he would get a job in the metro bus service. He returned to Lahore still unemployed, and a...
View ArticleNEW GSMA REPORT REVEALS GLOBAL ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF AN L-BAND MOBILE...
(Source: GSMA - GSM Association) October 29, 2015 Press Release Opportunity for Asia Pacific to Align With Rest of World to Create Globally Harmonised Band London: The GSMA has published a new report...
View ArticleStudent protests shut three universities in S. Africa
JOHANNESBURG: Student protests halted teaching at three of South Africa’s top universities on Monday as demonstrations spread against fee increases that many say will force poor black students further...
View ArticleMobile for Development - GSMA Boss Unfolds Three Points Agenda for Emerging...
[Vanguard] Cape Town -The chairman of the GSMA, Jon Fredrik Baksass, yesterday unfolded the direction of the mobile operator's association for the developing markets before international audience at...
View ArticleGovt reliance on banks rising
KARACHI: The government loaded another Rs401 billion on account of borrowing from scheduled banks during the three months through September, according to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). Along with...
View ArticleSouth Africa Faces Downgrade Risk With Budget Marred by Protests
South Africa took a step closer to another credit-rating downgrade as a slowing economy forced Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene to boost debt at the same time that mounting spending pressures fueled...
View ArticleGSMA APPOINTS JOHN GIUSTI CHIEF REGULATORY OFFICER (GSMA - GSM Association)
(Source: GSMA - GSM Association) October 26, 2015 Press Release London: The GSMA today announced that it has appointed John Giusti as Chief Regulatory Officer effective November 1, 2015. Reporting to...
View ArticleGSMA Appoints John Giusti Chief Regulatory Officer
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The GSMA today announced that it has appointed John Giusti as Chief Regulatory Officer effective November 1, 2015. Reporting to the GSMA Director General, Giusti will be...
View ArticleAgriculture and climate change
ACCORDING to an Asian Development Bank report issued from Manila last week, Asia and the Pacific faces a food ‘storm’ in the coming decades unless it takes decisive steps to respond to a host of...
View ArticleStrong Indo-Africa business relations present enormous opportunities for...
(Source: CII - Confederation of Indian Industry) With their abundant resources, African nations can address India's growing energy demands Africa's exports to India have grown sharply over the last...
View ArticleIMF urges economic policies to boost growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
NAIROBI, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called for prudent economic policies to help boost growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. In its October 2015 Regional Economic Outlook for...
View ArticleChad, Comoros cause surprise
CAPE TOWN: The tiny island nation of the Comoros and conflict-riven Chad both unexpectedly advanced to the second round of Africa’s World Cup preliminaries with away goal triumphs in qualifying matches...
View ArticleSmartphones put power to deal currencies into retail traders’ hands
LONDON: Once the preserve of big international banks, smartphones are putting the power to deal currencies into the hands of a new cohort of traders, who can make a fortune — or lose their shirt — on...
View ArticleSABMiller AB InBev merger hopes to wean Africans off home brew
LONDON - Charles Kwara and his friends sit around an earthenware pot, sipping a frothy grey drink through long straws as laughter fills the Charismatic Club in the slums of Kampala, Uganda's capital....
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