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		<title>Mobile Money covers 16% population in sub-Saharan Africa (Africa)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 07:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Banking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Commerce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Airtel Money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile money services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Money Transfer Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MTN mobile money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safaricom’s M-Pesa service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sub saharan africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda Telecom’s M-Sente]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warid Pesa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Money transfer via mobile phones has expanded to 16 percent of the total population in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new World Bank study, as reported by Mobile Money Africa. The Global Financial Inclusion Database, or Global Findex, has found only 3 percent of the population in the rest of the world take advantage of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vodacom eyes acquisition opportunities in Africa (Africa)</title>
		<link>http://wirelessfederation.com/news/93251-vodacom-eyes-acquisition-opportunities-in-africa-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://wirelessfederation.com/news/93251-vodacom-eyes-acquisition-opportunities-in-africa-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 08:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Mergers and Acquisitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acquisition opportunities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chief Executive Pieter Uys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethiopia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lesotho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mozambique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South African cellphone operator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tanzania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vodacom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vodacom Group Ltd.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[South African cellphone operator Vodacom Group Ltd. said that it is ready to grow its operations further across Africa and is on the hunt for small acquisitions. Chief Executive Pieter Uys told DJN that they feel more comfortable that they have the recipe to be successful outside South Africa. Uys said the company is looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SingTel plans acquisition in China and US (Singapore)</title>
		<link>http://wirelessfederation.com/news/93191-singtel-plans-acquisition-in-china-and-us-singapore/</link>
		<comments>http://wirelessfederation.com/news/93191-singtel-plans-acquisition-in-china-and-us-singapore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 06:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Mergers and Acquisitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chief Executive Officer Chua Sock Koong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dividends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silicon Valley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SingTel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strategic investments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Leading telecom operator in Singapore, SingTel has hinted towards acquiring businesses in China or US, to make up or slow growth in its domestic market. As per a statement made by the company, SingTel may raise its stakes in associates in Asia and Africa and make other strategic investments. The company reported a 30 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Airtel Ghana launches Airtel Frndz and Airtel Classified (Africa)</title>
		<link>http://wirelessfederation.com/news/93041-airtel-ghana-launches-airtel-frndz-and-airtel-classified-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://wirelessfederation.com/news/93041-airtel-ghana-launches-airtel-frndz-and-airtel-classified-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 12:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Promotions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Airtel Classified]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Airtel Frndz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Airtel Ghana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing Director of Airtel Ghana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oare Ojeikere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[value-added services (VAS)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Telecom operator Airtel Ghana has introduced two new products called Airtel Frndz and Airtel Classified on to the market claiming that the two products were introduced in response to customer needs and demands. As per a company statement, Airtel Frndz enables Airtel customers to subscribe and call up to ten special numbers at the lowest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Airtel to increase Africa revenues in 2013 (Africa, India)</title>
		<link>http://wirelessfederation.com/news/92996-airtel-to-increase-africa-revenues-in-2013-africa-india/</link>
		<comments>http://wirelessfederation.com/news/92996-airtel-to-increase-africa-revenues-in-2013-africa-india/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 06:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Financial Results]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2013]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3G interest costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3G licence fee amortisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa revenues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Airtel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bharti Airtel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Results]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forex losses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manoj Kohli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Q4 results]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax provisions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Telecom operator Bharti Airtel announced its Q4 results yesterday, revealing a net decline in its profit for the ninth consecutive quarter. According to the company, increased expenses such as of 3G licence fee amortisation, 3G interest costs, forex losses and tax provisions, were the prime cause for the decline, but said that it will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Airtel announces Q4 results: customer base crosses 250 million, net profit down by 28% (India)</title>
		<link>http://wirelessfederation.com/news/92975-airtel-announces-q4-results-customer-base-crosses-250-million-net-profit-down-by-28-india/</link>
		<comments>http://wirelessfederation.com/news/92975-airtel-announces-q4-results-customer-base-crosses-250-million-net-profit-down-by-28-india/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 05:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Financial Results]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3G interest costs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3G license fee amortisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[4G LTE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa revenues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Airtel Q4 results]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bharti Airtel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consolidated EBITDA margin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consolidated net profit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer base]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forex fluctuation losses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fourth quarter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Net Income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Net Profit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[profit decline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Q4 results]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Q4 results analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quarter ended March 31]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quarterly results]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quarterly results analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revenue Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rwanda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sunil Bharti Mittal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wirelessfederation.com/news/?p=92975</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Leading telecom operator in India, Bharti Airtel announced its consolidated IFRS results for the fourth quarter and year ended March 31, 2012. According to the company report, the revenue growth in the fourth quarter was fuelled by increased customer additions and strong minutes growth in India. Despite a national strike for 9 days in Nigeria, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orange partners with CANAL+ AFRIQUE for mobile payment services (France, Africa)</title>
		<link>http://wirelessfederation.com/news/92809-orange-partners-with-canal-afrique-for-mobile-payment-services-france-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://wirelessfederation.com/news/92809-orange-partners-with-canal-afrique-for-mobile-payment-services-france-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 06:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CANAL+ AFRIQUE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Lafarge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madagascar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marc Rennard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile payment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orange Money]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wirelessfederation.com/news/?p=92809</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[CANAL+ AFRIQUE and Orange have signed a partnership offering CANAL+/CANALSAT subscribers in Africa a convenient way to pay their subscription fees with their mobiles, using Orange&#8217;s mobile payment service. CANAL+/CANALSAT subscription fee payment using Orange Money will be launched in Madagascar in June 2012, so all Malagasy subscribers who are both CANAL+/CANALSAT and Orange customers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movicel deploys first commercial 1.8GHz LTE network (Africa)</title>
		<link>http://wirelessfederation.com/news/92742-movicel-deploys-first-commercial-1-8ghz-lte-network-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://wirelessfederation.com/news/92742-movicel-deploys-first-commercial-1-8ghz-lte-network-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[4G/LTE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1.8GHz LTE network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first commercial 1.8GHz LTE network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Long Term Evolution (LTE)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile world congress (MWC) 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movicel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wirelessfederation.com/news/?p=92742</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Movicel, Africa’s leading operator and pioneer in providing mobile services to Angola, announced the deployment of Africa’s first commercial 1.8GHz Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in the Cabinda province , the most productive crude oil region in Angola. It provides mobile broadband services with a downlink speed of up to 100Mb/s. During Mobile World Congress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alcatel-Lucent to offer innovative measures for mobile operators to overcome data storm (USA)</title>
		<link>http://wirelessfederation.com/news/92706-alcatel-lucent-to-offer-innovative-measures-for-mobile-operators-to-overcome-data-storm-usa/</link>
		<comments>http://wirelessfederation.com/news/92706-alcatel-lucent-to-offer-innovative-measures-for-mobile-operators-to-overcome-data-storm-usa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3G]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[4G/LTE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Broadband]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2G]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[4G LTE networks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alcatel-Lucent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data storm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Etisalat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France Telecom/Orange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high quality mobile broadband services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovative measures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LightRadio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LTE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Operators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telecom Infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telefonica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WiFi networks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://wirelessfederation.com/news/?p=92706</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tony Wood, Country Senior Officer of Alcatel-Lucent in East Africa, explains how innovation can help operators rise above the data storm to overcome network, business-model and competitive challenges. The globalisation of the economy and the growth of the Internet have enhanced worldwide communications. End-users wherever based in a remote village or in a big city [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MTN Group appoints Themba Khumalo as operations head (Africa)</title>
		<link>http://wirelessfederation.com/news/92526-mtn-group-appoints-themba-khumalo-as-operations-head-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://wirelessfederation.com/news/92526-mtn-group-appoints-themba-khumalo-as-operations-head-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile Management and Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate social responsibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MTN Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MTN Group President & CEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[operations head]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sifiso Dabengwa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Themba Khumalo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Africa’s leading telecom operator, MTN Group has announced the appointment of Themba Khumalo, current head of MTN Uganda, as the group&#8217;s Operations Executive. As per the company, Khumalo&#8217;s appointment was part of recent changes to the company&#8217;s organisational structure. Reports reveal that as operations executive, Khumalo will be responsible for managing the 13 MTN operations [...]]]></description>
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