Weekly Fintech News from Africa – 2nd of April ,2023
Africa is increasingly growing as a Fintech hub.
This will be an attempt to provide some quick updates from the growing world of African Fintech start up perspective.
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How was Africa’s evolution different from other continents from a human evolution perspective ?
Africa had a headstart when it came to human evolution.( mentioned one of the earliest hominin species – Lucy being in Ethiopia in my earliest posts
If you are connected to Digital services/ Fintech economy and have time for only one Podcast irrespective of which part of the world you maybe from, i will recommend this podcast from ARK Investment Management LLC interview with Teddy Oetomo,
Africa is the next Asia …!!
Have heard this comments from multiple stakeholders in the Fintech ecosystem ( investors , Tech developers , Financial services players etc. ) in the last few months .
The key hypothesis is that Africa is
While it is never easy to predict and as an Analyst have faced the situation when your predictions turn out way different . Future is unpredictable but the idea as an Analyst should always to be look ahead based on the conditions now and how the base case or...
As the US heads for elections and US-China tensions increase, a big implication looms large for traditional network infrastructure vendors.
The trend was expected to benefit Nokia and Ericsson and to be fair they have seen more PoCs in the
5G has the world a bit divided but its fair to say there is a good amount of interest on the potential for 5G. There is a lot of interest from retail investors on the best way they can invest
Promise of 5G
Global traffic levels hit 38 exabytes per month at the end of 2019, with a projected fourfold increase to 160 exabytes per month expected by 2025 . 5G promises to deliver that but are the present telecom
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Sometimes when we are faced with two options, we always tend to think that one option will be good and other bad. And human tendency is to take time to analyse and classify the
So Thailand becomes the first country in SE Asia to formally go ahead with bids for 5G .
Key features of Thailand 5G bid :
a.) 48 bands across 700 Mhz, 2.6 Ghz and 26 GHz . (Interestingly, NBTC wanted