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M-Kopa ( M for mobile, kopa is Swahili for borrow, stylized as M-KOPA) [ 1] is an African connected asset financing platform that provides underbanked customers in Africa to essential products including smartphones, electric motorbikes & digital financial services. [ 2][ 3] M-Kopa was launched commercially in 2012 and is headquartered in Nairobi.
Jumia. Lagos, Nigeria. Jumia is a Berlin -based technology company that is a marketplace, logistics service and payment service, operating throughout Africa. The logistics service enables the delivery of packages through local partners while the payment services facilitate the payments of online transactions. [ 1]
As of September 2020, Uganda recorded 20.1 million Internet users, [13] out of an estimated mid-year population of 41.58 million, [15] bringing internet penetration to 48.3 percent, nationwide. [13] As of 31 March 2022, according to the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), there were a total of 30.6 million active telephone lines in the ...
MTN Group Limited (formerly M-Cell) [ 2] is a South African multinational corporation and mobile telecommunications provider. Its head office is in Johannesburg. [ 3][ 4] As of December 2022 MTN recorded 289.1 million subscribers. [ 5] MTN is among the largest mobile network operators in the world, and the largest in Africa.
Germany. AEG. BenQ Mobile. Bankruptcy in 2006, defunct in 2007. Grundig Mobile. Hagenuk Telecom GmbH. insolvency in 1997, mobile phone development and manufacturing business acquired by Telital in 1998 [ 9] Siemens Mobile. Acquired by BenQ Corporation in 2005 to form BenQ Mobile.
Jumia became Africa's first unicorn - a private company with a $1 billion-plus valuation - to test the public market for a sub-Saharan tech firm when it listed in New York in April. Jumia Food ...
Uganda, [ b] officially the Republic of Uganda, [ c] is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The southern part includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared ...
South Africa has four licensed mobile operators: MTN, Vodacom (majority owned by the UK’s Vodafone ), Cell C (75% owned by Saudi Oger, an international telecommunications holdings firm), and 8ta, a subsidiary of Telkom. In 2012, mobile penetration was estimated at more than 10%, one of the highest rates in the world. [ 4]