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NEWS IN BRIEF... Collaboration key to financial inclusion
KT and Nokia By Joanne Taaffe week announced an agreement with
to set up IoT lab
The spread of both higher the Egyptian government to develop
South Korea’s KT and Nokia speed mobile connectivity and
have agreed to set up an smartphones is enabling the mobile financial services linked to
Internet of Things (IoT) lab use of more sophisticated financial
and LTE-M test site on the and information services in the national ID cards, called for the
operator’s premises. The developing world. But greater cross-
two-year agreement aims to sector collaboration will be essential building of private public
develop new business if financial services in particular are
models covering converged to spread, according to speakers at partnerships (PPP).
IoT solutions as well as the the ‘Innovating for Inclusion’ keynote
automotive industry. at Tuesday’s Congress. “Partnerships between
The two companies also
agreed to collaborate on 5G, Mobile operators in developing governments and the private sectors
including standardisation countries have launched a number
activities and 5G trials of successful payment and financial are going to be a big factor of
during the Winter Olympics services. But the CEOs of
in PyeongChang in 2018. Mastercard and the Hong Leong growth … [in] financial inclusion,”
Islamic Bank are calling for greater
Indosat sets collaboration to open financial said Banga: Governments provide
up ad exchange services even further.
on average approximately 30 per
Indosat launched the “Financial inclusion is a massive
Indonesia Mobile Exchange undertaking and the only way we cent of the income of those people
(IMX) in partnership with can meet it … is together …” across
Smaato, a global mobile ad governments, industries and in developing countries who are
exchange. IMX is a mobile- platforms, said Ajay Banga,
first, real-time bidding president & CEO of Mastercard. excluded from financial services, he
advertising platform.
Indosat’s existing mobile Currently 2.5 billion people, or half said.
advertising offering, i-klan, the world’s population, do not have
which currently sits within access to a bank account, according Raja Teh Maimunah, MD & CEO
its digital services unit, will to Banga, who said mobile money
become part of the joint services in developing countries at Hong Leong Islamic Bank,
venture. need to move away from operating in
silos. Instead Mastercard, which this agreed that mobile-based services
Ericsson teams
up with KT on will be key to broadening the reach
5G research
of financial inclusion and need to
Ericsson and KT this week
signed an agreement to be based on partnerships.
work together to develop
next-generation network However, Maimunah also However, even though mobile
technologies. The phone penetration is high in the
collaboration will cover 5G admitted that “financial institutions countries in which the bank “Financial
network architecture, small operates, differences in the level inclusion is a
cells, heterogeneous are not very agile … and are the of smartphone penetration massive
networks and massive between, for example, Vietnam, undertaking and
connectivity for the Internet slowest or the last to adapt to this Malaysia and Indonesia, affects the only way we
of Things (IoT). The two the services the bank can can meet it … is
companies said they aim to change.” Nor are mobile operators partner to introduce. “We need together”
help lead the 5G evolution cheaper phones and we need
by jointly working on necessarily quick to partner. Once [people] to move to
standardisation, spectrum smartphones,” she said.
strategies and network they do, however, Maimunah sees
deployment scenarios.
benefits, describing a collaboration
ZTE, China
Mobile demo with Telekom Indonesia that
massive MIMO
resulted in remittances costing
ZTE is jointly exhibiting its
3D/massive multiple-input people 20 per cent of what they had
multiple-output (MIMO) base
stations with China Mobile previously paid to agencies.
at Mobile World Congress.
The pre-5G base station By Saleha Riaz Privacy laws willing to contribute to make it
uses massive MIMO to need to support more meaningful.
support 64 ports and 128 Panellists at the ‘Ensuring innovation
antennas. By integrating the User-Centred Privacy in a The panellists agreed that all
baseband, radio frequency Connected World’ session data from leaving Europe’s borders. that of privacy policies that all users companies needed to be
units and antennas, it this week discussed the need for “This framework hasn’t even claim to have read but hardly any do. transparent about their policies,
requires only a third of the companies to have privacy policies because if only some were, users
installation space of that are simple for consumers to been adopted yet and it is already According to Denelle Dixon- were likely to become sceptical of
traditional mobile base understand, and called for laws that outdated,” he commented, adding Thayer SVP, business and legal them all, making collaboration
stations, the vendor said. protect individual data while also that laws must consider not only affairs at Mozilla, they should be as across companies on privacy
supporting innovation. the privacy of citizens but also simple as possible, in bullet points if essential.
“appreciate the evolution of needed, and written as if for “ninth
There are 105 laws expected to technology and the value of data.” graders.” “Laws need to be less
govern data around the world, and about unworkable
they are specific to countries, “Laws need to be less about Moreover, “if users understand the principles and more
whereas data does not care about unworkable principles and more value exchange, they will be more about supporting
borders, session moderator Pat about supporting innovation in a comfortable sharing data,” she said. innovation in a
Walshe, director, privacy, fair and sustainable way,” he said. fair and sustainable
government & regulatory affairs at Ustaran took this a step further way”
the GSMA, said. Another much discussed topic was and said that users may even be
Eduardo Ustaran, partner at law
firm Hogan Lovells, said in a year’s
time there will be a law that will ban
Qualcomm takes fingerprint The company said it is designed
biometrics from 2D to 3D to improve the interoperability
among online devices and
By Joseph Waring fingerprint technologies. The allowing for greater accuracy, addresses the challenge of creating
Snapdragon Sense ID 3D platform privacy and stronger and remembering multiple
Qualcomm on Monday supports a fingerprint scanner that authentication. usernames and passwords.
introduced a 3D fingerprint uses sound waves to penetrate the
authentication platform outer layers of skin to detect 3D The platform consists of a It is being introduced in
based on ultrasonic technology that details, such as ridges and sweat Qualcomm biometric integrated conjunction with the Snapdragon
improves security and eliminates pores. circuit, custom sensor technology 810 and Snapdragon 425
the need for passwords. and algorithms managed by processors and is designed to be
Raj Talluri, Qualcomm’s senior SecureMSM technology. It is based compatible with all Snapdragon
The chipmaker claims it’s the first VP of product management, said on the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) 400, 600 and 800 series processors.
ultrasonic-based biometrics sensor the use of ultrasonic technology Alliance Universal Authentication
and improves upon touch-based evolves biometrics from 2D to 3D, Framework specification. Snapdragon Sense ID 3D is
expected to be available in
commercial devices later this year
and is already in various sampling
stages with major OEMs.
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