MTN Mobile money 5 million + users will because of the Visa technology be enabled to send funds to each other, send and receive international remittances, make purchases at merchants or online where Visa is accepted or withdraw funds at a Visa ATM.

MTN will make the new product to customers in Nigeria and Uganda during the pilot phase.

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Orange Telecom has landed a deal to sponsor major Confederation of African Football (CAF) events after the sponsorship period covered by MTN for a record US$12.5 million ended. This deal translates the increasing value of media and marketing rigghts in the sub-saharan economic markets.

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Key things discussed/mentionned in the video:
Skype
Free phone calls
Iphone
T-Mobile
Hotspot
Melting of bounderies

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RIM is a  leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market.The company develops  integrated hardware, software and services that support multiple wireless network standard.

The company also enables a broad array of third party developers and manufacturers to enhance their products and services with wireless connectivity to data

Research In Motion (RIM) is the driving force behind award winning BlackBerry smartphones and the BlackBerry solution.

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Safaricom, Swift Global, Internet Solutions Zain and AccessKenya
can be named among the company that would give a run at MTN Kenyan market penetration strategy.

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“Mobile phone use in Kenya has been growing steadily for the last five years,  reaching 12 million subscribers in March this year,  from just under 20,000 a decade ago.” [BDA]

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It’s no secret that the music industry and especially hip-hop has turned to the millions of promotional and media dollars that consumer brand companies possess in order to help underwrite album promotional costs. Recent deals where brands are footing promotional costs include:

TAG Bodyspray - The much publicized partnership with Jermaine Dupri and Def Jam to create an entire new record label called TAG Records. Under the deal, TAG will pony up the promotional and media dollars necessary to launch the new artists from the emerging label

Fila - Nas signs his first major promotional deal with a brand company in order to fund his multi-million dollar ad and tour campaign for his latest album. In exchange, Nas lends his likeness to promote the Fila brand in print and outdoor ads

Drinks America – Dr. Dre teams up with Drinks America to launch Aftermath Cognac which was planned to be timed with the release of his long-anticipated album “Detox”

Sears – In a fully integrated marketing campaign, LL Cool J will be releasing his LL Cool J branded fashion line at Sears in conjunction with the release of his new album. Sears will pony up the money for promotional dollars that will be split between promoting the clothing line and the new album.

Verizon – Hollywood hipster rapper Shwayze signs a deal with Verizon Wireless which has Verizon as the exclusive online distributor for his next single “Corona & Lime” and will pay for all other promotional costs in order to push the single
via Woohah

For the African music industry to follow the same business model, that would mean companies such as MTN,Ecobank,Zain,Solibra,Ethiopian Airlines,Air Ivoire,Safaricom,Peugeot Nigeria,Tantalizers,Nestle,Google Africa,DHL Africa,Coca Cola Africa to name few should embrace sponsorship of music artists as much as they do football teams or favorite soccer players/runners.

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