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Tigo Ghana partners with ONEm to provide
SuperSMS in East Africa
Tigo Ghana has partnered with London-
based telecommunications company,
ONEm Communications to launch
ONEm’s SuperSMS network, giving
users access to a growing ecosystem of
interactive SMS-based services.
Following the merge between Tigo and
Airtel Ghana, over 10 million people
will have immediate access to a range
of intelligent and interactive SMS-
based services that were never before
available over SMS and voice.
Currently live in East Africa and the
Middle East, ONEm is relentlessly
working to close the digital divide,
ensuring nobody is left behind.
ONEm SuperSMS network gives
access, on any mobile, to modern
communications with Internet-like
group chat and provides access to
a myriad of interactive services for
social communications, education,
entertainment and self-help
business tools.
ONEm’s multilingual platform enables millions of people to interact with audio
and text services in many different languages, including French and Arabic. For
example, users are able to read and listen to the latest news stories in their own
language and can send a message in their language and the recipient can receive
in a different language.
“Ghana is a progressive African nation with great potential. We see many
applications where SuperSMS can be used to bridge the gap between 33% of the
people without data while providing a better and more suitable use the existing
SMS and voice infrastructure for those with data,” said Christopher Richardson,
CEO of ONEm. ¡
Microsoft SA, Intervate and 2enable launch online
portal to empower students
Microsoft South Africa, together with
Intervate and 2enable, have created
a portal for young South Africans,
called Mahala.ms. Through this portal,
young people can activate licences
for the Microsoft Office 365 suite and
OneDrive cloud-based storage services
free of charge.
Through the Mahala.ms portal, students
and parents are able to self-provision
their licences and install the software on
up to five devices, including desktops,
laptops, tablets or smartphones.
Lionel Moyal, Office Business Group
Lead at Microsoft South Africa says:
“There are around 12 million learners
and students in SA, but only a fraction
of them have access to digital tools.” ¡
The main objective is to enable learners
from grades R to 12 to become more
productive and better prepared for the
next phase of their academic careers or
the workplace, by gaining free access to
Office 365’s services, including Microsoft
Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint.
In addition, students receive one
terabyte (1,000GB) worth of free
OneDrive online storage to save their
documents, class notes, assignments,
research, podcasts and vodcasts.
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