Mukuru and WorldRemit have announced a deepening of their existing partnership. Having initially launched the alliance in Zimbabwe, the two companies aim to expand their collaboration for cash remittances into Zambia, South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi and Botswana. This is an important next step in furthering the delivery of world-class services...

IT services major HCL Technologies on Thursday announced a new partnership with IBM to help clients accelerate their digital transformation by migrating enterprise mission-critical workloads to the IBM public cloud. In December 2018, HCL Technologies had announced acquisition of select IBM software products for US$ 1.8 billion (over Rs 12,700...

By Emanuel Oluebube, Correspondent UK Affordability of devices remains one of the most significant barriers to smartphone adoption in Africa. The average cost of an entry level smartphone in Africa still exceeds 60 per cent of average monthly income making smartphones largely inaccessible for the majority of the population. As...

Singaporean mobile operators partnered with the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) to set a programme to recruit and train telecoms professionals to support the country’s 5G rollouts. IMDA said 30 per cent of 1,000 targeted positions will be new roles. In a statement, IMDA chief executive, Lew Chuen Hong said...

By Celestine Okorie Both organizations seek to jointly create a platform that will make it easier for Brazilian investors approaching the vast opportunities available on the African continent SouthBridge Group signed a Collaboration Agreement with The Brazil Africa Institute(IBRAF). The Agreement was signed by President of IBRAF, Professor João Bosco...

Rakuten Mobile unveiled a wide-reaching agreement with Tech Mahindra covering global deployment of the Japanese operator’s virtualised, cloud-based mobile network platform, along with several other aspects. Under the deal, the India-headquartered ICT provider will become the preferred partner for developing and deploying the Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP), becoming a reseller....

By Kingsley I. Ilechukwu HP Inc. in partnership with the African Union Commission (AUC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to foster entrepreneurial learning in Africa. The aim of the MoU is to further cement the collaboration between these two parties in building entrepreneurial skills across the continent and to...

By Juan Pedro Tomás Intel has secured licenses from U.S. authorities to continue supplying certain products to Chinese vendor Huawei, Reuters reported, citing an Intel spokesman. According to the report, the licenses are now required to make a transaction with Huawei or a listed affiliate involving any equipment using US...

Japan’s Rakuten Mobile and Germany’s Telefonica Deutschland said that telecom operators shouldn’t really look at developing everything on their own rather bring in partners to develop technologies and solutions. Rakuten Mobile chief technology officer Tareq Amin said that it is impossible to develop everything internally or have skill sets that...

Wants India To Develop Telecom Supply Chain Japanese telecom operator Rakuten Mobile said that there could be a possibility of technical collaboration with Reliance Jio for the development of network technologies in the 5G domain. The telecom operator also wants to work with Indian telecom and IT service providers to...