SETAR, a communications provider in the Caribbean island country Aruba, has expanded its current partnership with Nokia with an agreement to provide what is described as a full end-to-end 5G network transformation.

MTN has announced that its mobile money service, MoMo, already available in a number of African countries, will go live in South Africa in January 2020.

Telecoms giant Orange and German development agency Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) have formed a strategic alliance to, as they put it “enhance digital employability of 20,000 young people in Africa and the Middle East”.

According to Nigerian news reports, the country’s federal government has released a new five-year National Broadband Plan (NBP) to cover 2020-2025. Its aim is to boost broadband penetration from its present coverage of 37.8 percent to over 70 percent in the next five years.

Vodafone Idea Business Services (VIBS), the enterprise arm of Indian operator Vodafone Idea, has announced the launch of Vodafone Secure Device Manager (VSDM), powered by IBM Security MaaS360, a unified end-point management (UEM) system.

Czechia may delay the 5G spectrum auction that it has scheduled in January in order to attract more bidders.

The Agency for Aerial Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) and satellite systems company Aireon have come to an agreement regarding the use of space-based ADS-B for surveillance services.

It seems that Ukraine’s mobile operators may have more spectrum to play with after an announcement from Ukraine’s National Television & Radio Broadcasting Council (NRADA).

Three of Uruguay’s leading operators have all procured spectrum in the country’s recent auction.

Airtel Kenya’s potential acquisition of rival operator Telkom Kenya has come even closer with the news that the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) has approved the move. The new company is expected to be known as Airtel-Telkom.

According to Japanese press reports, global technology and services provider NTT Ltd is planning to lay a new submarine cable connecting Myanmar and India.

Google has claimed that it will be unable to sell new Android smartphones in Turkey after falling afoul of the country’s competition regulator.

With fixed teledensity having seen little change over the past two decades, progress in Papua New Guinea’s telecommunications has come primarily from mobile networks, reports Research & Markets.

Middle Eastern operator Etisalat has claimed that Dubai’s Etisalat Metro Station is the first 5G-enabled metro in the Middle East and North Africa region.

It’s long been clear that data centres make enormous demands on energy consumption. A new report suggests that 5G will make the situation much worse.

It’s been over a year since Mobilis, the cellular division of state-backed Algerie Telecom, lodged an application to compete for the fourth mobile operator licence in Mali. Now it’s finally joining the three established players in that country.

With a population of a little over 400,000, telecommunications infrastructure and services throughout Brunei are of a generally high standard bolstered by a high GDP per capita, reports Research & Markets.

Digital Colony has announced its entrance into the digital infrastructure market in Brazil with the acquisition of a major telecoms infrastructure company.

Nokia has signed a contract with telecommunications giant TIM to provide Internet of Things (IoT) services to its enterprise customers in Brazil.

Payments solutions providers FSS (Financial Software and Systems and Arab Financial Services (AFS) have entered into an agreement to bring omni-channel payment acceptance solutions to banks in the region.

Algeria has completed a cross-border fibre-optic network link with Mauritania.

Vodafone Idea has issued a statement denying that it was in talks with investment firms over the potential sale of fibre and data centre assets.

Start-up firm CHT Holdings Dominicana is planning to use infrastructure from Dominican electricity firm ETED (Empresa de Transmision Electrica Dominicana) to increase the country’s options for broadband connectivity.

According to local press reports, Philippines operator NOW Telecom has signed a memorandum of understanding with Aboitiz InfraCapital and Frontier Tower Associates to support the government’s common tower initiatives.

Strong growth in Malawi has prompted Airtel Africa to pursue an IPO of its local unit on the country’s stock exchange.

Indian operators Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea are both said to be putting forward new fundraising plans to cope with the need to pay dues arising out of a recent Supreme Court ruling.

GPX Global Systems Inc, a provider of carrier-neutral edge data centre services in Africa and South Asia, has announced the official opening of its second data centre in Mumbai.

Agricultural analytics company CropX has announced a partnership with Costa Rican agroforestry equipment vendor FarmAgro to provide satellite-powered precision agriculture tools to farmers in Central America.