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GSMA WELCOMES OUTCOME OF ITU MEETING TO SUPPORT NEW SPECTRUM BANDS FOR MOBILE BROADBAND
Friday 1 August, 2014 | News
London: Tom Phillips, Chief Regulatory Officer, GSMA, offered the following statement regarding the outcome of the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Joint Task Group meeting in Geneva: “At a critical ITU meeting in Geneva yesterday, governments across the globe ...
MMU’S GLOBAL ADOPTION SURVEY FOR MOBILE FINANCIAL SERVICES NOW OPEN
Monday 14 July, 2014 | News
Last week, MMU’s Market Intelligence team kicked off the start of the 2014 Global Adoption Survey. This survey – which covers not only global mobile money services, but also mobile insurance, credit and savings – is in its fourth year, and data collected from participants is ...
GRANT UPDATE: HNI’S NEW INFORMATION CHANNEL DESIGNED FOR WOMEN IN MADAGASCAR
Monday 7 July, 2014 | News
As announced in a previous blog post, HNI Madagascar has been awarded a GSMA mWomen Innovation Fund grant to further develop its 3-2-1 mobile information service with new content specifically designed for Malagasy women. GSMA mWomen recently paid a trip to Madagascar and had ...
OPERATORS TO REDUCE ROAMING COSTS ACROSS AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST
Monday 26 May, 2014 | News
Region’s Leading Operators Undertake Initiatives to Make Roaming Services More Affordable and to Improve International Connectivity 26 May 2014, London: The GSMA today announced that senior leaders from nine major mobile operator groups, accounting for over half a billion ...
OPERATORS COMMIT TO ACCELERATE INTEROPERABLE MOBILE MONEY SERVICES ACROSS AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Wednesday 30 April, 2014 | News
Region’s Leading Operators to Expand Financial Inclusion through Collaboration in GSMA Mobile Money Interoperability Programme London: The GSMA today announced that nine mobile network operators, including Bharti Airtel, Etisalat Group, Millicom, MTN Group, Ooredoo Group, ...
GSMA MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2014 SHATTERS PREVIOUS RECORDS
Thursday 27 February, 2014 | News
With More Than 85,000 Visitors, Attendance Up By 18 Per Cent Over Mobile World Congress 2013 Barcelona: The GSMA today reported that more than 85,000* visitors from 201 countries attended the 2014 Mobile World Congress, setting another new record for the mobile industry’s ...
GSMA REPORT SHOWS ACTIVE MOBILE MONEY CUSTOMERS REACHED 61 MILLION IN 2013
Tuesday 25 February, 2014 | News
Mobile Money Services Continue to Gain Scale as 13 Services Now Have More Than 1 Million Active Accounts Each Barcelona: The GSMA’s Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) programme today released its third annual Mobile Financial Services State of the Industry Report, providing ...
LEADING MOBILE OPERATORS UNVEIL GSMA MOBILE CONNECT INITIATIVE TO PROVIDE CONSISTENT AND INTEROPERABLE APPROACH TO MANAGING DIGITAL IDENTITY
Monday 24 February, 2014 | News
Mobile Ecosystem Players Collaborate to Deliver Seamless, Secure Mobile Identity Services for Consumers Barcelona: The GSMA today announced the launch of a collaborative initiative, supported by leading mobile operators including Axiata Group Berhad, China Mobile, China ...
GSMA PREDICTS 250 MILLION M2M CONNECTIONS IN 2014
Monday 17 February, 2014 | News
New Study Points to Strong Growth in M2M Sector as ‘Connected Living’ Comes of Age London: Global machine-to-machine (M2M) connections1 will hit a quarter of a billion this year, according to a new report2 by the GSMA, underscoring that M2M has become a major ...
NEW GSMA REPORT SHOWS SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA LEADS THE WORLD IN MOBILE GROWTH AND IMPACT
Monday 11 November, 2013 | News
But a Supportive and Predictable Policy Environment Is the Key to Realising the Longer-Term Potential of the Mobile Sector in the Region Cape Town: The GSMA today published its latest comprehensive study of the socio-economic impact of the mobile industry in Sub-Saharan ...