Orange Group launches SuperApp for Ivory Coast
09 January 2024
In Ivory Coast, the Orange Group (OCI) has launched ‘Max it,’ a SuperApp offering an improved all-in-one experience.
The advent of Max it is about opening a new era in the digitalization of Orange offers and services. One of the first innovations lies in the accessibility of Max it to non-Orange customers, by download, via links or QR codes, reported Habib Bamba, director of Digital and Media Transformation at OCI.
Find out more Telecom operators to lose $3 billion in SMS revenues to OTT channels over 2023-2028
24 November 2023
Telecom operators globally are going to lose $3 billion of SMS revenue from enterprises in the coming years according to a new study by Juniper Research.
OTT business messaging traffic will increase to 375 billion messages in 2028 from 100 billion messages in 2023. The rise of OTT business messaging will be fuelled by enterprises that will be left dissatisfied with the diminishing quality of SMS networks. Thus, the report suggests that in the next five years, the telcos will lose out on about $3 billion in SMS business messaging revenue globally to OTT channels.
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Mauritania brings in mandatory SIM registration
29 August 2023
Mauritania’s authorities are pushing for a process that will involve biometric data in the interests of enhancing national security and a government drive to combat increasing mobile fraud.
Mobile service users in the country have until 6 October to register their SIMs, a deadline set by the country’s regulator the Autorité de Régulation Multisectorielle (ARE), which has noted that efforts so far deployed to combat illicit practices in the sale and transfer of SIM cards have not yielded the expected results. If users do not comply with the measure by the set date they will have their subscriptions suspended.
Find out more VOX Solutions appointed exclusive gateway for A2P and SMS traffic for TNM
06 July 2023
International voice and messaging specialist VOX Solutions has been appointed as the exclusive gateway for international application-to-person (A2P) short message service (SMS) traffic delivery into the Telekom Networks Malawi (TNM) network.
This appointment is described as the result of an interworking agreement between the two companies, allowing for direct termination of international A2P SMS traffic to TNM’s network.
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