Category: Telecommunications
Chinese Phone-Makers Chafe Under Indian Pressure
The Indian government's apparent move to ban cheap Chinese-made smartphones is causing much unhappiness among Chinese companies that have worked hard to localize their presence there. Some Chinese companies are now contemplating leaving the country, but complain that they feel trapped ...
For Some Weird Reason, CGTN Doesn’t Want to Say Huawei by Name in a Report About the Company in Kenya
For some reason, the Chinese state broadcaster CGTN went out of its way to avoid naming Huawei by name in a recent report about the company's role as the primary technology service provider for Safaricom's popular mobile payment service M-Pesa.
Chinese Tech and Mining Companies Team Up to Build First 5G Connected Mine in Southern Africa
The South African subsidiary of Chinese mining giant Zijin will build southern Africa's first-ever 5G connected mine using Huawei technology. South Africa Zijin Platinum contracted with SA telco major MTN to build the Huawei network at the Limpopo mine in northern ...
What Transsion Did in Africa’s Mobile Phone Market, Chinese Device Maker Realme is Doing in India
The Chinese brand RealMe isn’t well known in China, but it managed to zoom to the number 3 position in India’s notoriously competitive mobile phone market. With a 16% market share, the company is now only behind Samsung (20%) and China’s Xiaomi (23%.)
When it Comes to ICT Training, Africa Differs from Western Critics on Huawei
As U.S. trade tensions with China deteriorate into a struggle over future technological supremacy, Chinese tech companies have become targets. Many Chinese firms faced a sudden ban on buying high-end technological components made in the U.S. This pressure is causing these companies to rethink their global strategies. ...
Transsion’s Nearly Two-Year Run of Uninterrupted Growth in Africa Comes to an End
Two years of the pandemic, supply chain disruptions and slowing economies in Africa finally caught up with Shenzhen-based African mobile phone giant Transsion. The company released its first-quarter results earlier this month that revealed drops in revenues (1.8%), profits (7.6%), and smartphone sales (7%) compared to the ...
Mobile Phone Giant Tecno Wants a Piece of Kenya’s Booming Mobile Money Market
Transsion's Tecno brand is expanding its new mobile money service to Kenya this week. “The wallet has pilot launched in Nigeria in May, and roll-out to Kenya in middle of June," the company said in a statement. A mobile payment option from ...
Africa’s Position Amidst China’s Dominance of the Continent’s Mobile Phone Sector
By Pamela Adwoa Carslake The mobile handset industry is said to be a top 5 industry in the world, accruing US$522 billion in sales revenue and annual sales of over 6 billion mobile devices according to a document by the Pakistan ...
Huawei’s Former Premium Brand Phone Tries to Reboot in South Africa
Huawei's now independent high-end smartphone brand HONOR, which was spun off in 2020 in response to crippling U.S. sanctions, is now setting its sights on the South African mobile market. The company said it's been investing heavily to build brand awareness ...
China’s Tecno Brand Dominates Kenyan Mobile Phone Market
Kenya's mobile phone market shrank by 9% in the first quarter of the year, according to new data from technology consultancy IDC, but even a drop that large didn't budge Transsion's Tecno brand from the top spot in the market.