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What telco mobile money licenses mean for Nigeria’s financial services sector

CIO Business Intelligence

Over the last decade Africa has gained a reputation for global leadership in mobile money, with Kenya at the forefront, but up to now financial services via mobile phones have not taken deep root in the continent’s most populace country — Nigeria. Mobile money is not entirely new to Nigeria.

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Fraport goes all in on private 5G network

CIO Business Intelligence

Plus, long-term evaluations have been used via public mobile networks, with corresponding SIM cards in other end devices. Here, we actually get a licensed frequency we don’t have to share with anyone, so there’s no interference,” he says. “And

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Lumentum CIO Ralph Loura on adopting a challenger mindset

CIO Business Intelligence

The company is a key player in the telecommunications industry, with annual revenues of $1.7 Obviously, it is not a license to be a jerk, it is not about being argumentative, but it is about having a creative tension and a positive tension and sharing ideas. billion and 5,000 employees around the world. And so we engaged with them.

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How opportunities are unfolding for telcos in the healthcare space

TM Forum

During the initial 5G hype we heard many examples of the potential opportunity for telecommunications providers in the healthcare space. This was the aim of the Mobile Europe virtual conference, 5G Healthcare Panel, hosted by Darius Singh, STL Partners. Telecommunications operators are in a prime position to step up into this space.

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Ambassadors from Norway and Finland forge ties in Seattle, offer glimmer of hope on cybersecurity

GeekWire

Once a dominant maker of mobile phones and a crown jewel of Finland’s technology industry, Nokia entered into an ill-fated partnership with Microsoft’s Windows Phone business in 2011 before selling its smartphone business in 2014 to the Redmond tech giant, only to see Microsoft dismantle the deal a year later.

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What accelerates – and slows – the development of social networking mobile platforms - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Although the mobile phone offers an "extremely appropriate platform for social networks," he said current pricing structures were holding back the market. Although the mobile phone offers an "extremely appropriate platform for social networks," he said current pricing structures were holding back the market.

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Strategic positioning in the flow economy: 3 action steps

Trends in the Living Networks

While the flow economy framework is most obviously relevant in technology, media, telecommunications, and services, it can be usefully applied in almost any industry. Lonely Planet launched CitySync in January 2000, providing in-depth guides to four US cities plus Sydney for mobile devices running the PalmOS operating system.