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<p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:15.6pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(76,76,76)">Madagascar’s three mobile money providers
– Airtel Money, mVola and Orange Money – will roll out <a href="http://www.pymnts.com/news/international/2016/gsma-madagascar-mobile-money-providers-interoperable/">nationwide
interoperable services</a>, making Madagascar only the second African nation to
do so. <br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:15.6pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(76,76,76)"><br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:15.6pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(76,76,76)">Meanwhile, Orange Money has <a href="http://www.globaltelecomsbusiness.com/Article/3584068/Orange-gets-African-licences-for-e-money.html#.V9KziVt9670">expanded
operations in Africa</a>, receiving electronic money licenses from Senegal,
Mali, Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea. [<em><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif"">Read
ITU News’ recent article on</span></em> <a href="https://itu4u.wordpress.com/2016/08/02/will-oranges-payjoy-investment-help-overcome-the-connectivity-price-barrier/"><em><span style="font-family:"arial","sans-serif"">Orange’s investment in PayJoy</span></em></a>.]</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:15.6pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(76,76,76)"><br></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:15.6pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(76,76,76)">Source: ITU News<br></span></p>

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