Turkcell is deploying Odine's end-to-end wholesale voice management platform to drive business automation and routing intelligence for its wholesale voice interconnect network.

As many as 250 million children across Africa are currently unable to access primary and secondary schools as a result of COVID-19-related closures.

According to reports in a number of Latin American press outlets, Colombia is making another attempt to sell its stake in Movistar, the local subsidiary of Telefónica.

The latest in a series of reminders from Indian operators has been delivered to the country’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) over the absence – so far – of the 26 GHz band in the long-awaited 5G spectrum auction process.

Angola’s new licensee Africell has set a goal of launching commercial services by mid-2021.

Kacific has signed a five-year agreement with the Government of Tuvalu to provide the Pacific Island nation with high-speed broadband internet connectivity via satellite.

Tata Communications has procured a local licence to provide telecoms services in Saudi Arabia.

5G trials are on the way to Algeria and Mexico, according to recent reports, though the uses of 5G being tested will be very different.

A 4G-enabling analogue TV switch-off is almost complete in Cape Verde.

For regular readers who are wondering what happened to the Algar bid for the mobile division of troubled Brazilian telecommunications business Oi, it seems that it may still be on.

Orange Guinea Sonatel is implementing Alepo’s authentication authorisation and accounting (AAA) platform to digitise its FTTH offering.

The City Council of the Brazilian city of Londrina is again looking to sell its stake in the regional operator Sercomtel after its previous attempt failed.

Bharti Airtel has renewed its agreement with Ericsson to provide pan-India managed network operations.

Despite some dramatic statements by Vodafone Idea to the Indian Supreme Court, Monday’s long-awaited hearing on AGR dues payment seems to have ended fairly tamely with no payment timeline being agreed.

Vodafone Idea made a lot of disgruntled noises following a regulatory block on its RedX premium tariff plan. It seems the Indian operator was not alone in being unhappy with the order from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), as it has now been stayed.

MTS Belarus has nearly doubled data usage on its network after a substantial infrastructure deployment in the first half of this year.

Brazilian operators TIM Brasil and Vivo (Telefonica Brasil) have revealed the locations in which they will debut their 5G offerings.

SystemOne is using SIMs from Telecom 26 to enable real-time test result communication, timely containment and treatment actions for infectious disease programs in Ghana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

Telecom Namibia has announced the recent extension of its 3G and 4G mobile services to both urban and rural areas across the country – and there’s much more to come.

According to reports in the Brazilian press, Telefonica, which owns the Vivo brand, is to join Claro and TIM in bringing 5G to Brazil.

Within the past two weeks, two shareholders in the Philippines’ new market entrant DITO Telecommunity have “withdrawn funds” from the venture, reports The Manila Standard.

Just over a fortnight after Brazilian regional operator Algar Telecom was rumoured to be interested in a bid for the mobile and fixed businesses of operator Oi, Telecom Italia seems to be back on the scene – via TIM Brasil.

Nokia has won an IP/MPLS network deal with Thailand’s True Group.

Orange has selected Parallel Wireless to extend its coverage across multiple African markets, beginning with the Central African Republic.

To comply with the terms of its freshly renewed operating licence, MTN Uganda must list a 20% stake on the country’s stock exchange within the next two years.

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.