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Aman, WE, agree on collecting bills, balance recharge
Company’s expansion plan includes reaching 70 points of sale, adding 400 branches
Jumia meets MCIT to discuss remarks on new e-commerce law
Company expects 30 million customers on Black Friday: Safwat
Coordination with telecoms, regulation companies necessary to take market-related decisions: Essam
Parliament imposed an EGP 50 fee for buying a new mobile line, a monthly EGP 10 on mobile bills
Suez Canal signs agreement with South Korea’s KT, GGTT to speed internet service to 1 GBps
Partnership will help provide better internet services for all business sectors in area: Yassin
Temenos, AUC Venture Lab and CIB cooperate to promote fintech in Egypt
Technological solutions, applications will contribute to integration of parallel economy
Nokia 6.1 Plus now available in Egypt
It is unique in providing intelligent content creation features, smart story telling
Jumia One offers 5% cash back on all airtime, mobile bills purchases
Application is specialised in paying bills and credit recharging
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Spectra Technology aims to supply 90,000 POS for banks, ministries, e-payment companies
Interviews underway with electronic collection companies to agree on smart applications final form for banks’ electronic payment cards
BOGO plus discount coupons includes 170 brands
We launched new service via WhatsApp, says company’s CEO
Accept begins its foreign expansion with Jordan
Company believes Jordan is a promising market and has sustainable opportunities
57% increase in TE’s debts in H1 2018
EGP 8.3bn net debts of the company
ITIDA represents Egypt, partakes in 38th GITEX Technology Week
32 local ICT companies to participate in week
Communications minister witnessed launch of ‘Developing Comprehensive, Creative Economies’ programme
MCIT carrying out study with programme on cooperation aspects to use communication, information technology tools to contribute towards reaching an integrated creative economy
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Mobile subscribers in Egypt down 3.4%, mobile internet users up 4.2% in Q2 2018
Internet market added 3 million new consumers in Q2, number of internet users reached 42 million in Q2 compared to 39 million in Q1
Network International banks integrate Egypt’s Meeza payment scheme
NI partner banks among first acquiring banks in Egypt to integrate national payments scheme
Samsung starts delivering new tablet shipment to Egyptian government
Devices have Knox MDM software to secure data, manage content
Vodafone leads mobile operators’ losses, with 345,800 clients lost in June
Number of modem devices remained stable at 3.48m, number of landline users increased by 1.5%
Samsung acquires largest market share of mobile sales in Egypt in September 2018
Huawei continues to march towards top with 17.3% share
Azure Stack eliminates challenges facing data centre industry
New technology overcomes problem of information sovereignty: El Salmy
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Huawei fights dirty to raise ‘Nova 3i’ sales
Company said it prefers if customers provide video saying they decided to switch to Nova 3i instead of F9
TE secures EGP 22bn worth revenues from long-term contracts with mobile operators
Capacity sales’ revenues grew in H1 2018
The Rise of Artificial Intelligence part 1:The New Power Within Reach
Each daily minute, 3.9m Google searches, 4.3m YouTube videos,13m text messages, 2.1m snaps, 1 million passengers on aeroplanes, $ 330,000 Amazon sales, 73,249 online retail transactions, 750,000 songs streamed, 49,380 Instagram photos, 159m emails sent
MENA’s 1st e-commerce summit focuses on latest industry trends, innovations, future technologies
Summit invited 2,500 industrial, commercial, financial, service sector leaders, as well as IT experts
How digital learning can improve education
Investment in digital learning has grown to over $22bn between 2015-2017, as per Metaari report
Oppo plans to enter Saudi market next November
Company is now operating in 33 countries, plans to increase scope of operation, obtain more market share
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Mobile market lost 800,000 subscribers in June
Internet attracts 1.6 million new clients
Jumia contracts with Aman to provide instalment payment services
Payment facilities become very common recently, hence Jumia aims to allow its customer to purchase online unique and diverse products through instalment payment service
KMG launches regional expansion strategy, sets smart service centres for maintenance
On the KMG strategy to enhance the presence of new players in the mobile market, Ghoneim pointed out that the strategy depends on several axes; the first and most important of which is the provision of after-sales and maintenance services nationwide so as to be closer to the company’s customers
Honeywell UOP’s Oleflex technology has been selected for 52 out of 64 propane projects
Egypt considered as top consumer of polypropylene in Africa, consuming about 4.4 kg per capita, growing by more than 5% annually through 2022
China dominates feature phone shipments globally
Chinese companies’ dominance of mobile phone industry was not limited to smartphones, but extended to feature phones.