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Archive for the ‘Mobile-commerce’ Category
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 While the mobile Internet is developing rapidly, telecom equipment, like Alcatel-Lucent and Nortel, are concentrating their efforts on 4G, fourth generation mobile telephony by leveraging technology LTE.
At the World Congress of mobile telephony, which recently held in Barcelona, many stands are the promotion and demonstration of this technologie.Le LTE stands for Long Term Evolution “(long term evolution),” will be the dominant standard in the mobile, everyone was lined up behind, “said Sylvain Fabre, analyst with the Gartner Institute. (more…)
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The mobile payment becomes a reality in Côte d’Ivoire with Orange Money, a service launched in partnership with BNP Paribas, to deposit, transfer money and pay bills from his mobile phone.
Orange has announced the commercial launch of ‘Orange Money’ in Ivory Coast in alliance with BNP Paribas.Wireless operator Orange is testing in the Ivory Coast a new money transfer system: Orange Money. Strategies Telecom & Media interviews Marc Rennard, executive director in charge of Orange’s operations in Africa, Middle-East and Asia. about Orange Money. As we’ve seen previously with M-PESA in Kenya, the mobile operators are focusing much of their mobile payments initiatives on markets where a large majority of the population is unbanked. Marc Rennard, Orange’s international executive director for the Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific Region, said, ‘We are delighted that Orange Money has been launched for the first time in the Ivory Coast. This event marks the start of the service’s deployment in other Orange countries over the coming months.’ Amadou Kane, head of the Africa Region for BNP Paribas said, ‘Through the launch of this service in the Ivory Coast, then in other countries, BNP Paribas is committed to supporting the gradual improvement of access to banking services for many low-income households that do not have access to traditional banking services.’
We have several times in our columns raised the interest to bring banking services on mobile phones in emerging countries to promote the development of local economy. By accessing the possibility to deposit and transfer money in a secure manner in areas where ATMs are few physical or tens of miles away, it is possible to help entrepreneurs accelerate their trade, thus contributing to the growth of a region or a country. (more…)
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Like every Sunday, discover the motives that have been selected by the editors of the section mobility.
Among the mobile phones presented during this week, were selected the Sonim XP3 Enduro, the Nokia 6260 Slide and the Samsung A777.
The Sonim XP3 Enduro probably enjoy the Indiana Jones of the 21st century due to its rugged, water resistant, shock and cashing biting the dust without ever shy. By contrast, followers of the latest phones can not find their account with equipment kept to a minimum.
Meanwhile, the Nokia 6260 Slide surprised by his team of reasonably good bill despite its positioning mid-range: HVGA display, HSDPA, GPS, Wi-Fi and APN 5 Megapixels. He nevertheless blame excess weight and an air of deja vu at the look.
To complete this selection Sunday, the Samsung A777. Design simple and basic equipment. The mobile sir everyone in a few words.
Sonim XP3 Enduro: a GSM for fighters
Price: no information yet (more…)
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highlighting this trend. Nokia’s new 3300 is a music phone with a startling new design that’s ideal for messaging and gaming, too. 
After the end of the telephone service (telephony is a telecommunications system which aims at the transmission of sound and in particular …) 2G of KDDI Corp.. in March 2008 and the announcement of Softbank Mobile Corp.. planning the shutdown of that service in March 2010, DoCoMo’s turn to communicate the loss of its 2G service in March 2012. DoCoMo also accept more entries in the 2G phone service since 30 November 2008. Softbank was preceded in this process. 
