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Next-Gen mobile app targets Southeast Asia
across 190 countries , providing affordable roaming mobile data to business travelers in the SEA region and around the world through its proprietary e-SIM product .
Embedded in the user ’ s mobile phone as a virtual SIM card , which eliminates the need for a physical SIM card , e-SIM technology offers the convenience of managing multiple cellular providers on a single device for traveling abroad and even separate plans for personal and business purposes .
Asia Pacific currently has over 100 million business travelers , representing more than 30 % of the world ’ s market .
Gorilla Global , the mobile telecoms arm of Society Pass Incorporated ( SoPa ) has released its next generation mobile telecoms app , offering a full suite of smart digital mobile communication solutions . Gorilla works with over 500 mobile operators
Rokas Sidlauskas , Chief Marketing Officer of SoPa , said : “ Our digital e-SIM product allows customers to buy data credit and to stay connected online with their mobile devices while traveling abroad . By 2H 2023 our suite of services will expand into local e-SIM provisions .”
SkedGo wins Pathway to Net Zero Award
Sydney based global Mobility-as-a-Service
( MaaS ) provider SkedGo won the Pathway to Net Zero Award in the 2023 Future Digital Awards for Smart Cities and IoT Innovation – recognizing SkedGo as a champion of sustainability in the mobility sector .
The annual Future Digital Awards , presented by Juniper Research , highlights organizations that have made outstanding contributions to their industry , with the Pathway to Net Zero Award honoring those companies driving innovation in global Smart City deployment and paving the way to a more sustainable future .
SkedGo ’ s personalized trip planning , corporative mobility and MaaS technology is also named Best MaaS Platform for the third consecutive year .
John Nuutinen , CEO , SkedGo , said : “ Sustainability has always remained at the core of what we do . We believe technological advancements and a global push to implement MaaS systems across our cities will be pivotal in reducing the mobility sector ’ s carbon emissions on a large-scale .
“ To have been voted winner of the Pathway to Net Zero Award is a testament to the team at
SkedGo and to our customers who choose to put making transport more inclusive and sustainable first . It is especially poignant at a time when governments around the world are implementing stringent sustainability targets for corporations of all sizes to follow .” p
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