El Salvador has announced the auction of 20MHz of mobile spectrum in the 1900MHz (PCS) band on 12^th December.

Data centre company PT DCI Indonesia (DCI) has announced that it will build a third data centre facility in Cibitung – but it’s not stopping there.

Underlining its growing strength in diverse areas of telecommunications and IT, search engine giant Google has announced that Curie, a 10,500-kilometer-long undersea cable, now connects Google data centres in the US and Chile.

According to reports in the Chinese press, the country’s leading operator is targeting the signing of some 70 million 5G users by the end of 2020.

The city of Jerusalem is deploying Siklu’s millimeter wave (mmWave) core and access network equipment for an ongoing project which will become one of the largest municipal networks in the world.

Better communications for remote areas of Sudan are the hoped-for result of a new agreement between a number of satcoms companies.

Is India’s Reliance Jio behind the extension of a bid submission deadline relating to the assets of bankrupt rival Reliance Communications (RCom)? Bharti Airtel seems to think so.

Cell C customers will be able to roam onto MTN South Africa’s network in any part of the country after the operators extended their roaming arrangement.

The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) has granted Bharti Airtel Lanka a 5MHz block of 900MHz spectrum.

Somalia's telecom market has been sustained despite tremendous difficulties, reports Research & Markets.

Jamaica’s Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has ordered operators Digicel and Flow to alleviate “persistent quality of service (QoS) issues”.

Thai regulator NBTC (National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission) has dropped plans to decommission the country’s 2G networks after a change of heart from the major operators.

Pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom has launched the fastest direct land-based fibre link connecting East to West Africa.

MTN South Africa has selected Ericsson as a 5G network modernization vendor. Ericsson will supply 5G products and solutions from its radio access network (RAN), transport and core portfolios, with commercial rollout expected to start in 2020.

A new spectrum acquisition will allow Airtel Africa’s Nigerian subsidiary to enhance LTE coverage in the country.

Indian press reports are suggesting that the Chennai-Andaman and Nicobar Islands (CANI) submarine cable systems project is expected to be completed by 2020.

Gaw Capital Partners has announced that a fund under its management has formed a joint-venture partnership with Centrin Data to acquire, develop and operate a portfolio of hyper-scale IDC projects in China.

It has only been a matter of weeks since the date for the Colombian 700MHz, 1900MHz and 2500MHz auction was finally agreed. Now, however, it is in doubt.

Pan-African operator Africell has launched its first 3G smart feature phone, afriphone.

Satellite networking technology, solutions and services provider Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd has been awarded a $10m five-year project for 3G/4G backhaul services in Peru.

Telkom South Africa has expressed a renewed interest in acquiring its beleaguered rival Cell C.

Spectranet and Nokia are to provide 100+ Mbps ultra-broadband services with FttH to home and business users in Nigeria. Meanwhile, also in Nigeria, solar-based internet service provider (ISP) Tizeti has launched a 4G LTE network.

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has issued new regulation that will see the country’s operators introduce mobile number portability (MNP) services on 1^st December.

Spacecom, operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, and an exhibitor and sponsor at AfricaCom 2019, has announced that a leading Angolan satellite services company has signed a contract for C-Band HTS capacity on the newly launched AMOS-17 communication satellite.

A meeting of regional telecommunications leaders has approved the final stages of planning for the installation of the Manatua – One Polynesia Cable.

Zain, an operator with a commercial footprint in eight Middle Eastern and African countries, has selected Ericsson to build its 5G network in Bahrain.

Workz Group and Econet Zimbabwe announced a deal that will see them offer Zimbabwean subscribers network connectivity via embedded SIM devices such as the iPhone XS/XR/11 and Microsoft Surface Pro X.

Telefonica has selected Comtech EF Data Corp’s Heights Networking Platform for a multi-year program to upgrade Vivo Brazil and Telefonica Argentina’s networks in support of 2G, 3G and LTE backhaul.

Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) is using Intracom Telecom’s WiBAS Point-to-MultiPoint (PtMP) technology to offer state-of-the-art microwave connectivity solutions to its customers.

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC),  a self-sustaining US government agency that helps American businesses invest in emerging markets, has announced that it plans to work with Trans Pacific Networks (TPN) to support the world’s longest subsea telecommunications cable.