India’s Tata Group will soon start assembling Apple iPhones in India after Wistron Corp, an electronics manufacturer based in Taiwan, approved the sale of its Indian manufacturing unit to the Mumbai-headquartered multinational conglomerate.
East Africa Device Assembly Kenya (EADAK) Limited has opened this week. It’s Kenya’s first local smartphone assembly plant.
Smartphone shipments in mainland China saw consecutive quarterly decline with a 5% loss to a total of 66.7 million units, according to analyst company Canalys.
Airtel Africa unveiled what it labelled as the “most affordable 4G smartphone” to be launched in Rwanda, as part of wider plans to boost connections to its network.
According to industry body the GSMA over half (54%) of the world’s population owns a smartphone, but the rate of new mobile internet users has slowed.
African technology group Cassava Technologies is in the news yet again, this time through a partnership with Atlas AI, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) analytics platform.
Smartphone shipments in Africa saw growth of 7.6% to a total of 19.6 million units in Q2, snapping seven quarters of continuous year-on-year decline.
Indian feature phone vendor Lava International stated ambitions to take a third of the feature phone market in India within 12 months and transform into a significant player in the budget segment.
Counterpoint Research predicted Apple will gain a larger share of the Indian smartphone market on the back of its latest iPhone 15 range launched last week.
Philippines operator Globe Telecom partnered with insurance technology company Bolttech to launch a mobile phone trade-in programme to spur post-paid subscriber upgrades.
Smartphone shipments in Indonesia declined for the eighth quarter in a row but analyst company IDC forecast a better H2 for the market as shipments will stabilise.
King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) Development & Management Company and Orange Business, the enterprise division of Orange, have signed a deal through which Orange Business will supply a smart city platform for KAFD.
Chip manufacturer Intel revealed plans to invest US$1.2 billion into its Costa Rican business over the next two years, to fuel development in next-generation technologies.
Analyst company Canalys reported smartphone shipments in Southeast Asia fell 15% year-on-year in Q2 to 20.9 million units, the lowest total since 2014, macroeconomic conditions continue to dampen consumer confidence.
Financial Software & Systems Pvt Ltd (FSS), a provider of payments technology solutions headquartered in India, has announced the launch of BLAZE, an advanced payments technology platform designed to meet the diverse needs of banks and financial institutions.
Airtel Payments Bank, Frontier Markets and the Mastercard Centre for Inclusive Growth have announced the launch of She Leads Bharat:Udyam, an initiative to elevate 100,000 Indian women-owned small businesses with resources, tools and opportunities to grow and diversify their incomes.
Analyst company Canalys reported smartphone shipments in the Middle East saw 2% year-on-year growth in Q2, against the backdrop of overall shipments declining globally by 10%.
Cloudera, a data company with a focus on enterprise AI, has announced a collaboration with a leading Indian fintech platform, PhonePe.
Viettel Group, Vietnam’s largest telecommunications group, which boasts a growing international footprint, has selected the MX960 Universal Routing Platform from Juniper Networks, a provider of secure, AI-driven networks, for its network refresh.
Petronas Digital, the digital arm of Petronas, a Malaysian global energy group with a presence in over 100 countries, has entered into a strategic collaboration with Microsoft and Cegal, a global tech company specializing in energy and security, to accelerate digital innovation for the upstream value chain.
Chinese smartphone vendor Honor will launch manufacturing in India as part of plans to relaunch in one of the world’s largest smartphone markets and aims to capture 5% of market share by volume in 2024.
Apple manufacturer partner Foxconn has reportedly begun production of the iPhone 15 in a factory in Southern India, as the semiconductor giant continues to pivot away from its reliance on Chinese manufacturing.
Global smartphone shipments are predicted to dip 6% to 1.15 billion units by the end of 2023, the lowest in a decade as economies continue to see macroeconomic headwinds cut consumer spending.
Apple supplier Foxconn is reportedly in motion to increase investment to over US$1.2 billion in India, by pumping US$500 million into two new factories, a move to further divest away from China, reported Bloomberg.
As the number of Indian cities covered by 5G grows, India's 5G smartphone user base has passed the 100 million mark and monthly sales have overtaken those of 4G smartphones for the first time, according to recent research.
MTN Rwanda has partnered with data-driven platform Bboxx in a bid to increase smartphone access across Rwanda, accelerating the country’s digital agenda.
Chinese companies have taken the majority of the Russian smartphone market after Western vendors departed the country for humanitarian reasons stemming from the invasion of Ukraine.
Google is reportedly searching for suppliers in India to build its Pixel smartphone range as the US company pivots away from manufacturing in China.
International voice and messaging specialist VOX Solutions has been appointed as the exclusive gateway for international application-to-person (A2P) short message service (SMS) traffic delivery into the Telekom Networks Malawi (TNM) network.
Mitsumi Distribution has expanded its distribution partnership with Dell Technologies in the French speaking countries of West Africa.
Samsung Electronics Egypt, a local division of the multinational company, has indicated that it has plans to establish a new mobile phone factory on an area of 6,000 square metres in Beni Suef, according to a recent statement by Egypt’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
South Africa's MultiChoice Group, usually best-known for video entertainment provision, has announced a joint venture, along with fintech company Rapyd and investor General Catalyst, aimed at developing an integrated payment platform for Africa. The joint venture will operate as a new company, called Moment.
Smartphone shipments in Thailand and the Philippines continue to slide as South East Asian economies continue to grapple with macroeconomic pressure.
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