India’s Supreme Court has ordered the country’s operators to pay the government a total of $13 billion in outstanding airwaves and license fees. This follows a legal dispute going back some 20 years between the government and the operators.
Orange has opened its second Orange Digital Centre in Africa and the Middle East. The new centre is in Dakar Senegal.
Plans for a new cable system, which will directly connect Muscat, Oman, to Perth, Australia, have been announced. It will be called Oman Australia Cable (OAC).
Vodafone Idea is transforming its distributed network data centres to open standards, open interfaces based ‘Universal Cloud’ using solutions from Red Hat.
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) will allow the Azerbaijani mobile operator Bakcell to pursue its bid to acquire Vodafone Ukraine from Russia’s MTS.
The liberalisation of Ethiopia’s telecoms sector could see three operators active in the market by April 2020.
Thai regulator NBTC (National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Communication) has confirmed plans to auction 5G-ready spectrum in four bands in February next year.
Two major Indian service providers are to merge in the hope of returning to profitability within two years.
Bangladesh’s regulator is now seeking a solution to an ongoing tax dispute with the country’s two leading mobile operators following a request from a government ICT adviser.
Seacom’s submarine cable system briefly experienced what the company called “a service-affecting outage” earlier this week.
Seychelles company Intelvision, which describes itself as “a 100 percent Seychellois-owned company providing TV and internet services to the local market”, is reportedly moving into the provision of mobile services in the country.
Openet, a supplier of digital and 5G BSS, has announced that its end-to-end Digital BSS suite has gone live to support Indonesian operator Telkomsel’s new digital prepaid cellular service.
A recently announced deal will see Airtel Africa’s mobile money operations integrated with Finablr’s technology platform and global network to facilitate seamless inward and outbound cross-border payments.
VEON has announced that its joint venture company in Kazakhstan, KaR-Tel LLC, operating under the Beeline brand, has launched a large-scale 5G network trial in Shymkent, Kazakhstan.
According to recent reports in the Indian press, the merger between Bharti Infratel and Indus Tower, which would have created one of the world’s largest telecom tower companies, has been delayed.
Telecoms giant Airtel Africa and pan-African banking group Ecobank Transnational Incorporated have signed a partnership that could enhance mobile commerce for their customers.
5G may not be here yet as an end-user offering in most countries, but trials and announcements in South America and the Middle East indicate that it may not be too far off.
There have been question marks over the fate of Cell C in South Africa and Orange Niger for a while. Now various news outlets are predicting sales for the two troubled operators.
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Kazakhstan’s KaR-Tel has launched a large-scale 5G network trial in the city of Shymkent.
As India’s Department of Telecom (DoT) considers proposals that could ease the stress on operators of spectrum auction payments, Reliance Jio is again arguing against a call connect charges review.
The Czech Telecommunication Office (CTU) has changed the dates for the country’s forthcoming 5G spectrum auction.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)'s report for August underlines the challenges facing the big three operators in India.
To achieve universal broadband access in African countries will require a vast investment to bring an estimated 1.1 billion more people online, according to a recently published report from the World Bank Group.
To achieve universal broadband access in African countries will require a vast investment to bring an estimated 1.1 billion more people online, according to a recently published report from the World Bank Group.
With its widespread application of modern technologies such as fibre optics, wireless transmission, digitalisation and satellite services, Malaysia has built one of the more advanced telecom networks in the developing world, reports Research & Markets.
In an attempt to placate security concerns over its equipment in India, Huawei has pledged to keep its 5G network equipment in line with strict security standards.
Morocco has developed one of the most advanced telecommunications markets in Africa, reports Research & Markets.
News reports from the Czech Republic press indicate that underuse of the country’s phone booths means that they will be dismantled or repurposed by 2020.
PT Indosat Tbk. (Indosat Ooredoo), a leading Indonesian digital telecommunications company, has agreed the sale of 3,100 of its mobile communications towers.
Indian operator Bharti Airtel has selected Ericsson to deploy its 5G-ready Cloud Packet Core in Airtel’s Pan India core network.
The date for the Colombian 700MHz, 1900MHz, 2500MHz auction has finally been agreed.
Further news from the India Mobile Congress, where 5G spectrum price and interconnect usage charges (IUC) yet again overshadowed many other topics at the event.
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