Veneranda Sumila The citizen Reporter Dar es Salaam. Motorists can now refuel their cars without having cash in their hands at some Gapco filling stations in the city following the launch of Airtel Money fuel paying services. The service is part of the ongoing mobile-phone money payment (M-Payment) revolution that seeks to reduce the need
How crooks lure mobile phone users through fake calls and text messages in Kenya
ZADDOCK ANGIRA Daily Nation On December 13 last year, Ms Caroline Maina lost Sh124,755 within six minutes to conmen who tricked her into sending them the money through Safaricom’s mobile money transfer system M-Pesa. Ms Maina, the proprietor of Generations Electronics Mobile Outlet Ltd, had received a call from a person who claimed to be
Visa in Rwanda: The future for financial sector development?
Killian Clifford Director – MobileMoney Consulting,UK He will be speaking at the MobileMoney WestAfrica summit in March,2012. Visa and the Government of Rwanda (GOR) recently announced an initiative to electrify the country’s payments system which, if successful, could potentially be a template for financial sector development involving private sector partnerships across the wider region. The
Mobile money services make a mark in Botswana
MODIRI MOGENDE The Botswana Gazette Six months after the concurrent launches of Mobile money services in Botswana by both Mascom and Orange, the network operators are happy about the prospective opportunities that are provided by this new market that enables them to tap into the unbanked population. In fact, the positive reception has been surprising.
Mobile banking explodes
www.iafrica.com First National Bank (FNB) announced on Wednesday that its Cellphone Banking channel processed in excess of 25 million transactions in December 2011 with a transaction value of over R2.7-billion, compared to R1.7-billion seen in December 2010. The bank has more than 3.5 million Cellphone Banking users. Ravesh Ramlakan, CEO FNB Cellphone Banking Solutions, said
Rwandese Developers Standing out in African Mobile App Development
Rwanda has been recognized in many publications as one of the few places in the world where setting up a new business is easiest. With only over 2 million persons using their mobile phones only as a tool for communication, the opportunity for growth in the mobile industry is huge. 5 visionary final year students
Online Africa: how Internet is changing Ugandan business
The New Age Sitting in the glow of his flat-screen computer monitor in a fashionable office, Donald Kasule says that until recently it was almost impossible to imagine making a success of an Internet start-up in Uganda. When he first had the idea several years ago for his “Wedding Bells” website — a flashy site
Android App Monitoring M-PESA Transactions
Gythan Munga Android users can now download an app from the Android market that lets them track their MPESA transactions from one location. M-Pesa is an award winning mobile money transfer service launched in Kenya, Tanzania and Afghanistan. In Kenya alone, the service had over 16 million subscribers as of November last year. Dubbed pesaDroid,
Safaricom to look into M-pesa data ‘fraud’
Morris Aron Safaricom has said it is taking seriously reports that politicians are using details of its clients of the revolutionary mobile money transfer service M-Pesa to register party members. In what could pose a huge challenge to the integrity and credibility of the money transfer, reports over the weekend indicated that some politicians were
Nigeria: Airtel Expands Airtime Top-Up Service to More Countries
Airtel Nigeria says it has expanded its network of locations and platforms where international airtime top up service can be done across the world, with the appointment of three major international top up firms as partners. With the alliance, it said, Nigerians and others who reside in the United Kingdom, United States of America, Australia,
