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By Cyber Era Staff MainOne has finally landed its submarine cable in Grand Bassam, Cote D’ Ivoire, which is the

State-owned MPT, the largest mobile operator in Myanmar, received clearance to launch a mobile money service almost 18 months after

Growing adoption of mobile money services in Kenya resulted in double-digit year-on-year growth in the value of transactions over the

Zimbabwe regulator Potraz stated mobile money cash-in services doubled sequentially to US$2.4 billion in Q2, as use of the services

Malawi scrapped plans to implement a 1 per cent withholding tax on mobile money transactions, after drawing criticism from the

US politicians turned the screws on Facebook’s blockchain-based payments play Libra, urging financial institutions backing the scheme to reconsider their

African financial services provider Standard Bank bought a stake in merchant technology company Nomanini and plans to launch a mobile

Zimbabwe payment company Ecocash launched Smart Change Money, a service allowing users to transfer funds held in US dollars to

Operator Mauritius Telecom and HKT division PCCW Global launched what they claimed is the African island’s first national mobile payment

A subsidiary of MTN Nigeria began offering mobile money transfers through its agent network, weeks after receiving clearance from regulators