Following yesterday’s promise of a major investment in the Indian market from Google there’s another Indian investment story in the news, this time relating to Apple products manufacturer Foxconn.

Pretty much as expected, official figures indicate that March was a bad month for customer retention as far as Indian operators Bharti Airtel and Vodacom Idea are concerned. Reliance Jio Infocomm, however, is still number one.

Omantel has selected Ericsson to support the Sultanate’s ongoing 5G radio access network (RAN) deployment plans in a multi-year partnership.

Myanmar’s government has ordered the country’s operators to add more sites to a mandated blacklist.

Sri Lanka Telecom is deploying a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network based on Nokia’s fibre technology.

TeleGeography’s CommsUpdate reports that the Supreme Court in Chile has issued a ruling on spectrum holding limits.

Qualcomm has acquired a 0.15% stake in Jio Platforms for INR7.3 billion ($97.1 million).

A boost for Latin American digital connectivity may be on the cards with the entry of  global telecoms operator BSO into the Latin American market.

Operators in Southeast Asia are laying out their deployment plans for the rest of the year, with the Malaysia’s Celcom claiming that it will be ready to launch commercial 5G services as soon as it holds suitable spectrum.

Niger is set to receive funding of US$100 million from the World Bank in order to push digital transformation initiatives.

There’s no denying that, even in post-lockdown India, demand for smartphones is still strong – but why can supply not keep up?

Indian regulator the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has told two leading operators that they cannot go ahead with recently launched premium plans, according to local press reports.

Armenia’s regulator has cleared Team LLC’s proposed acquisition of Veon’s local unit Beeline.

Kyivstar and Vodafone Ukraine have formed an active and passive infrastructure sharing agreement to boost 4G coverage in rural Ukraine.

Following yesterday’s announcement that Zain is offering 5G coverage in all of Saudi Arabia’s regions, we also have 5G coverage news from Brazil and South Africa, although, confusingly, neither country has formally auctioned long-term 5G spectrum yet.

Kenya’s Safaricom has selected Aviat Networks’ WTM 4800 multi-band radio platform for 5G backhaul.

We’ve mentioned Vodafone Idea subscriber losses a few times in the past twelve months. Now the Indian press suggests that a continuing decline in customer numbers is worrying the joint venture's partners, the Aditya Birla Group and Vodafone Group.

Iraq’s government will allow the country’s operators to renew their licences for a further five years – but with significant conditions attached.

Middle Eastern press outlets have reported an alliance between Ooredoo Kuwait, a telecommunications company owned by the Qatar-based Ooredoo group, and Batelco, the principal telecommunications company in Bahrain, to establish what is known as Global Zone Kuwait.

Novator Partners has acquired a majority holding in Colombian operator Avantel for an undisclosed sum.

Zain KSA now offers 5G coverage in all of Saudi Arabia’s regions after expanding its network to Al-Jouf and the Northern Borders.

Cuba’s sole telecoms provider, the state-owned ETECSA (Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba) has claimed via social media that it now has over one million 4G users.

A new era of stratospheric communications has begun, according to Loon, a company that offers a network of what it calls floating cell towers, and that is now providing service to subscribers of Telkom Kenya.

The government of Chad has launched a new initiative aimed at modernising the country’s networks.

Indian managed data centre service provider Yotta Infrastructure has announced the inauguration of what is described as India’s largest data centre building.

A premium residential internet service has been launched in Brazil, courtesy of global communications company Viasat.

The Chennai-Andaman & Nicobar Islands (CANI) submarine cable system project has received clearance from India’s National Board for Wildlife (NBWL).

Filipino fibre broadband provider Converge ICT Solutions has filed for an IPO of up to 35.92 billion pesos ($725 million) on the country’s stock exchange.