Orange and MTN partner for mobile money platform Mowali
Orange Group and MTN Group announced Mowali (mobile wallet interoperability), a joint venture, to enable interoperable payments across Africa.
Mowali makes it possible to send...
Telefonica Brasil adds Netflix video to boost pay TV business
Telefonica Brasil has started integrating its pay TV service with Netflix’s video streaming platforms to boost its ARPU.
Brazil’s largest telecoms company said customers who...
Airtel inks mobile content deal with NDTV
Bharti Airtel has tied up with NDTV to launch NDTV Hop, world’s first LIVE channel for smartphones available entirely in portrait (vertical) mode with...
OnMobile buys mobile games co Appland
OnMobile Global is set to acquire Appland, a popular games and kids App Clubs subscription service.
This acquisition of Gothenburg, Sweden-based Appland reflects OnMobile’s strategy...
The growth of Orange Money in the last 10 years
Orange Money, a mobile money service, announced its achievements in the last 10 years after launching the business in Cote d’Ivoire in 2008.
The mobile...
Sirius to buy online music service Pandora for $3.5 billion
Satellite radio company Sirius XM Holdings will buy online music service Pandora Media in a $3.5 billion all-stock deal, Reuters reported.
The acquisition will...
Jio 4G inks mobile content deal to offer cricket match with Star
Reliance Jio announced a 5-year deal with Star India to offer televised India-cricket matches to users of JioTV and Hotstar in India.
The mobile VAS deal signed...
Verizon’s media and advertising business head Tim Armstrong may resign
Verizon Communications’ head of media and advertising business, Tim Armstrong, is likely to resign from the US wireless carrier, the Wall Street Journal reported...
Airtel Payment Bank customers can use ATMs for cash withdrawals
Airtel Payment Bank announced that its customers can use their mobile phones to make card-less cash withdrawals at over 100,000 ATMs across India.
Airtel Payments...
Airtel content deals drive data usage and churn reduction
The strategy of Bharti Airtel is to sign content deals with entertainment companies such as ZEE, Star and Sony in order to boost its...
Airtel signs new content deal with Netflix, offering free subscription
Airtel announced a new content deal with Netflix to boost its subscriber base across the country.
According to the latest content partnership with Netflix, subscribers...
Airtel signs OTT video content deal with media company ZEE
Indian telecom operator Bharti Airtel announced its OTT video content agreement with media company ZEE Entertainment Enterprises.
The strategy of Airtel is to enhance ARPU...
Mobile operators use content to cut subscriber churn
Bundling premium subscription content in to wireless data plans is becoming a popular strategy for mobile service providers to cut churn.
Content bundling has the...
Telefonica pays $1.15 bn for Spanish football video rights
Telefonica has made a payment of 980 million euros or $1.15 billion per season for packages of television rights to screen Spanish football matches...
Vodafone to give free Amazon Prime to RED post-paid customers
India’s second largest telecom operator Vodafone said it will offer free Amazon Prime -- worth Rs 999 – subscription to all Vodafone RED post-paid...
Airtel TV extends free subscription till December, achieves 50 mn users
Airtel TV, a video streaming and LIVE TV app from Bharti Airtel, has crossed the 50 million users mark on Android platform.
Airtel TV app...