Fets Limited, Nigeria’s mobile money transfer company, yesterday, said it has secured the International Standards Organisations (ISO) 9001 quality certificate.

The feat is the first for a Nigerian mobile money company to secure prestigious ISO9001 quality standard based on quality management principles, strong customer focus and continual improvement

The certificate"...

With two weeks until Mobile World Congress Shanghai opens, the GSMA provided a final update on the event, including additional speakers confirmed for the keynote programme and 4 Years From Now (4YFN) Summit, as well as further details on exhibition features and partner programmes. Mobile World Congress Shanghai will be held 27-29 June at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC).

“We are counting down the days to Mobile World Congress"...

Telkom, one of Kenya’s leading telecommunications companies, has invested Ksh3 billion ($30 million) towards ‘Fiber to the Building’ (FTTB), a new service that will see buildings connected to high speed fibre Internet to power businesses.

The firm plans to exploit the intersection between infrastructure provision and ICT solutions to help businesses realize their economic value.

To"...

Cabo Verde Telecom and EllaLink have announces the signature of a binding Memorandum of Understanding to deliver subsea fibre connectivity to Cabo Verde.

The EllaLink system, which will be operational in 2020, is a new 4-fiber-pair submarine cable that is being constructed to meet the demand for traffic between Europe and Latin America.

When built, it will provide the"...

(AETOS Wire) -- Borken and Rueil Malmaison. With the kick-off at ANGA 2018, BrightBlue presents an IPTV platform designed to establish a new standard in the industry with the cooperation of Sagemcom. BrightBlue offers a technical high-end solution for IPTV as turnkey package with a 4K UHD Linux set-top box from Sagemcom.

Whether as an overall white label product or in customized modules - BrightBlue offers"...

According to a statement issued by Vodafone Zambia on June 6, the company CEO, Lars Hendrik Stork, has retired.

Chairperson, Gilbert Temba, said in a statement that the new CEO would be announced alongside the new Vodafone Zamia ownership and other important structural changes in the near future.

There were no reasons given for Stork’s departure but the company did"...

SES announced today that it has been granted, by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), authorization to serve the U.S. market using a significantly expanded O3b fleet in the Medium Earth Orbit (MEO).

The FCC grant opens significant additional frequencies to SES for use in its non-geostationary (NGSO) constellation and enables it to deploy O3b mPOWER satellites into inclined and equatorial orbits, delivering full global pole-to-pole coverage."...

(AETOS Wire)-- The European Commission, Parliament and Council have reached a political agreement on the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC). In the GSMA’s view, this agreement is a political compromise that fails to confront long term challenges for the European telecommunication sector and could hinder deployment of 5G networks in Europe, weakening the region's competitiveness and harming European citizens.

In"...

EPPAN laments slow consumer education on digital pamyent
National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers (NATCOMS) and the Consumer Protection Council (CPC) have kicked against the threat by telecommunications operators of possible hike in tariff for data and voice services if the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) succeeded in imposing 0.005 per cent levy on all electronic transactions.

The levy is to be transferred into a National Cyber"...

(AETOS Wire) -- The GSMA today announced that mobile operators Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone Group have successfully completed the first international roaming trial in Europe using licensed NB-IoT technology. The service will ensure seamless coverage and service continuity for millions of connections using Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks. The trial was performed using global SIMs from Deutsche Telekom on Vodafone Spain’s network and global Vodafone SIMs on T-Mobile Austria’s"...