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| Sandeep Narayanan, Director of Consumer Electronics &Romain Christodoulou, Senior Vice President, Jumia Group- Wang Xiang, Senior Vice President, Xiaomi Corporation, Wang Lingmings, Vice President, Xiaomi Corporation |
Jumia, Africa’s leading e-commerce platform, has signed an important partnership with technology leader Xiaomi at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, giving millions of users in Africa easy access to Xiaomi products.
Through the partnership, Jumia will open the Mi official store on its platform and give Xiaomi access to millions of online customers across 14 countries in the continent, while Jumia will be able to offer Redmi Go (1GB+8GB) exclusively in Africa as well as other devices later in the year. The partnership will be supported by an ambitious joint-marketing plan over the full year 2019, leveraging Jumia’s digital assets and Xiaomi marketing capabilities, including the Mi fan community. This is the promising first step to a close partnership between both companies over the years to come.
“This partnership is very important for us, as it will definitely foster the smartphone adoption in Africa as well as support e-commerce penetration. Xiaomi and Jumia have very similar internet DNA and will serve a common purpose: delivering the best in class affordable smartphones along with the best shopping experience. This will be very beneficial for both companies and above all for the consumers in Africa”, said Jumia Group’s Senior Vice President Mr Romain Christodoulou, during the signing ceremony.
“We believe in working with companies that share our values and delighted to partner with Jumia to reach more Mi fans across Africa,” said Wang Xiang, Senior Vice President of Xiaomi.
“The e-commerce model is part of Xiaomi’s DNA and we believe that working with Jumia will help us bring innovation for everyone across the continent.”
Reacting to the news, the chief executive officer of Jumia Nigeria, Mrs Juliet Anammah described the partnership as coming in the nick of time, when Nigeria was listed among 7 countries that would contribute 700 million new mobile subscribers to hit the 6 billion mobile subscribers mark in the world by 2025.
“Availability of lower price point smartphones such as Xiaomi will deepen smartphone penetration in the country and help the country in meeting its 4% quota of the 700 million new global mobile subscribers, as predicted by GSMA Intelligence,” she added.
The partnership will initially cover Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Morocco, and Ghana, and aim to cover all other countries where Jumia operates. Most markets will be directly supplied from China, confirming the fast expansion of intercontinental trade in Africa.
Africa has seen the rise of affordable entry-level devices from price-focused brands especially from China, which remains a key driver of smartphone adoption in the continent. Smartphone penetration in Africa stood at approximately 36% in 2018, with the number expected to reach about 66% by 2025.
MTN currently charges 5 kobo/kb for pay as you go browsing. Browsing on pay as you go is expensive for most users. So it is a good idea to migrate to an internet plan using its internet browsing codes as they offer more value for money.
MTN has cleaned up its internet browsing data plans making it easy to choose the one that is perfect for you. You now have just seven MTN Data Plan to choose from. There are cheap browsing plans for entry-level users and mobile phone browsing as well as browsing bundles for medium data and high data users.
MTN, like most other networks, offers daily data plans and weekly data plans in addition to the standard monthly subscription.
For information about MTN Data Plans in Nigeria, just dial *131# on your MTN line.
MTN Data Plan Prices
Below are the latest MTN Data Plan Prices:
- MTN Cheap Browsing for Mobile, 1GB (24/7 30 days) – N1000
- 1.5GB MTN mobile data plan (24/7 30 days) – 1200 Naira
- 2.5GB MTN mobile data plan (24/7 30 days) – 2000 Naira
- 5GB MTN mobile data plan (24/7 30 days) – 3500 Naira
- 10GB MTN data plan (24/7 30 days) – 5,000 NGN
- 22GB MTN data plan (24/7, 30 days) – N10,000
- 50GB MTN data plan (24/7, 60 days) – N20,000
- 85GB MTN data plan (24/7, 90 days) – N50,000
- MTN Daily data plan for mobile, 50MB (24 hours) – 100 Naira
- 500MB MTN Weekly data plan for mobile (24/7, 7 days) – 500 NGN
- MTN Daily data plan, 150MB (24 hours) – N200
Activation codes for MTN Data Subscription
Follow the instruction below to activate any MTN browsing bundle of your choice. You will also see the code for checking your MTN data subscription balance.
- MTN Cheap Browsing Plan for Mobile, 1GB (24/7 30 days) – text 106 to 131 – 1000 NGN
- 1.5GB MTN data plan (24/7 30 days) – text 130 to 131 – 1200 NGN
- MTN 2.5GB mobile data plan (24/7 30 days) – text 110 to 131 – 2000 NGN
- 5GB MTN data plan (24/7 30 days) – text 107 to 131 – 3500 Naira
- 10GB MTN data plan (24/7 30 days) – text 116 to 131 – 5000 Naira
- 22GB MTN data plan (24/7 30 days) – text 117 to 131 – 10000 Naira
- 50GB MTN data plan (24/7 60 days) – text 118 to 131 – 20000 NGN
- 85GB MTN data plan (24/7 90 days) – text 133 to 131 – 50000 NGN
- MTN Daily data plan for mobile, 100MB (24 hours) – SMS 104 to 131 – N100
- 750MB Weekly browsing for mobile, 500MB – text 103 to 131 – N500
- MTN Daily data plan, 150MB – text 113 to 131 – N200
To check your MTN browsing data balance, SMS 2 to 131.
A 74-year-old man ranting about a broken phone drove his car through the glass storefront of a Verizon Wireless store in North Carolina, authorities said Friday, stunning shoppers during the dinner hour at an upscale mall.
Charles Michael Hager was charged with assault with a deadly weapon and damaging property after he drove into the store at a busy shopping center in Raleigh Thursday night, according to a police statement, per the AP.
A witness told a 911 operator that he saw Hager standing outside the store located between two popular restaurants, demanding that it reopen to help him with his broken phone.
"He was demanding to get his phone fixed," the unidentified caller said, later adding:
"He said: 'My damn phone's not working. I need help. Open this damn door."
A police news release said Hager first kicked the door, shattering glass, then drove his car through the storefront. Six employees were in the store, but no one was injured. The caller said a crowd of bewildered onlookers gathered around as the man got out of his car wearing a gray collared shirt and gray slacks and continued to yell.
The scene unfolded at North Hills Mall, an outdoor shopping center surrounded by pricey homes and several high-rise office buildings north of downtown.
The spread of mobile phones and cellular networks are facilitating easier access to financial services in hard-to-reach population and small businesses at low cost and risk in developing countries.
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Bank Plc, Mr. Suleiman Abubakar, said this while delivering a paper as guest speaker at a breakfast roundtable organized by the Financial Services Group of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) on deepening financial inclusion through data analytics and financial technology in Lagos recently.
Abubakar, who was represented by Sterling Bank’s Chief Information Technology Officer, Mr. Olayinka Oni, noted that in the context of financial inclusion, “Fintechs hold tremendous potential, challenging old business models with greater speed, accountability and efficiency at a cheaper cost.”
He said access to financial products and services were becoming more attainable than ever for consumers that live in rural locations or regions without the equipment and infrastructure of a modern economy due to the prevalence of mobile phones and cellular networks.
Abubakar said financial institutions and fintechs could objectively use data analytics to extend credit to consumers who previously had to contend with sometimes exploitative informal credit because they had no formal credit history.
He said it was essential for a country to have strong political commitment and coordination across relevant stakeholder groups in both the public and private sectors of the economy to achieve financial inclusion.
In addition, the country must put in place wide-reaching policies that promote responsible financial access, financial capability, innovative products and delivery mechanisms, the guest speaker said.
He stressed the impact of data on financial inclusion, saying as customer transactions around the world become increasingly digitized, data analytics can shed light on patterns such as how frequently and for what purposes customers use their accounts to provide some benefits for financially excluded customers.
“Benefits that can be obtained from this approach include insights on financing, accelerating customer product adoption, improved marketing effectiveness, and agent network optimization,” he said.
Please, let's be very careful.. There is a new HIGH TECH FRAUD in the town called the SIM SWAP FRAUD and hundreds of persons are already VICTIMS.
HOW IT WORKS
1. A new fraud called SIM SWAP has started. Your phone network will momentarily go blind / zero (No Signal / Zero Bars) and after a while, a call will come through.
2. The Person on the other side will tell you that he is calling from Airtel/MTN/9 mobile/Glo depending on your network and that there is a problem in your mobile network.
3. He will instruct you to Please press 1 on your phone to get the network back.
Please at this stage don't Press anything, Just cut the call.
– If you press 1, the network will appear suddenly and almost immediately go blind again (Zero Bars) and by that action, your phone is HACKED.
– It is increasing day by day. Within a second they will empty your bank account and cause you enough damage.
WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE.
– It will appear as though your line is without Network, meanwhile, your SIM has been SWAPPED.
– The danger here is that you will not get any alert of any transactions, so please those of us doing USSD Banking and Mobile Banking BEWARE. So please be careful.
Last year, Samsung turned up the heat on top competitor Apple when it launched an ad spot titled “Growing Up” that effectively threw shade at every generation of the iPhone. It followed around a young man, who had been a diligent iPhone user since the device’s first arrival, and tugs on all the imperfections that have plagued iPhone users over the years: storage space issues, the problem with sending pictures through text in the earlier days, its lack of water-resistant protection before newer models were introduced, etc.
Eventually our subject switches over to a Samsung Galaxy device and in their newest campaign, Samsung is effectively delivering on the same message, this time calling on the task of “Moving On.” In the new clip, our antagonist is a woman whose iPhone 6 consistently delivers on performance issues, lagging at critical moments with the pressure to upgrade constantly around her.
She takes it to the Genius Bar where the attendant suggests that she either turn off the performance management setting or just upgrade. She leaves the store with no new iPhone, but by the end of the clip she has upgraded to a new Samsung device while Chyvonne Scott’s 1961 track “I’m Moving On” fittingly plays on in the backdrop.
At the end of last year, Apple came under fire when it confirmed that it had been slowing down older iPhones through that performance management setting in order to preserve battery life. But, the Internet gave birth to plenty of theories, including the idea that Apple was slowing down these devices to instead get their customers to buy newer models and continue the cycle. Apple put out a statement shunning the idea, but the conspiracy remains.
Are you looking for ways to gain Financial Freedom, scale up your finances or add a new stream of income doing online business, then be part of this entirely FREE business class in Lagos State, Nigeria where you will learn;
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When it comes to cheap, good phones, there are more than enough to go round. This is because the cost of phones has significantly dropped and software is getting better.
In line with this, Jumia Nigeria, the online shop you can trust, shares the top affordable phones to buy.
A. Huawei Honor 9 Lite
The Honor 9 Lite doesn't seem to have any of the usual compromises you'd expect when getting a budget phone. It has an elegant blue design, expansive 5.6-inch display and four cameras. It is also friendly to your wallet.
B. Infinix Zero 5 Pro
Released on November 22, 2017, Infinix joined the dual rear camera bandwagon – a move long overdue – with the Infinix Zero 5 Pro. The Zero 5 Pro also doubles as the first smartphone from the OEM to feature RAM as high as 6GB.
C. Gionee A1 LITE
Packing in a humongous battery, the Gionee A1 Lite is a smartphone for users who would like to avoid hooking up to a power outlet frequently. This stripped-down variant of the Gionee A1 also promises something impressive for the selfie enthusiasts. It has 32GB storage, up to 64GB memory card and 4000 mAh Li-ion Battery.
D. Nokia 1
The Nokia 1 runs on Android and has a colourful plastic design. It has a removable battery, two SIM-card slots and expandable storage.
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