Operators globally are looking at innovative ways to increase data revenues in their respective markets. This to a large degree has seen them embrace with open arms the app market specifically. VAS on the other hand was the starting point for operators to improve their customer experiences on their networks.…
Getting Africa up to speed with the developed world when it comes to connectivity and Internet penetration is about more than laying cables. Brett Haggard takes a look at how Google’s emerging markets division is driving access, relevance and sustainability into the formerly dark continent.
The Oxford Dictionary describes an app as “a selfcontained program or piece of software designed to fulfil a particular purpose; an application, especially as downloaded by a user to a mobile device: apparently there are these new apps that will actually read your e-mails to you”. As we know, voice…
Not so many moons ago, the only meaningful way to offer a service for cellphone users was through the VAS (Value Added Services) channels that the network operators provided. These include SMS (Short Message Service), USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data), IVR (Interactive Voice Response) and carrier billing (where the user…
Q&A with Samsung's Paulo Ferreira (PF), Head of Product & Business Solutions and Brett Loubser (BL), Business Development Manager, Mobile Applications This issue of Africa Telecoms is focused on VAS, apps and operating systems (OS) for mobile. In your personal opinion which OS currently has the best software and apps?…
Did you know that smartphone users are more attached to their mobiles than feature phone users? Entertaining statistics from a recent survey of how people relate to their smartphones and feature phones have emerged from research company TeleNav in California. Leading the pack, Iphone users outstripped their Android and BlackBerry…
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