With Mobile Congress India in full swing, concerns about the prospects for 5G, among other issues, are being aired by a number of major Indian players.
To improve broadband coverage governments need to update laws and regulations that are restricting funding and right of way acquisition, according to Chen KuanHong.
Ongoing plans for 5G rollout in South America have reached a new stage in Chile and Peru this week.
Swedish company Sinch AB, a leading name in cloud communications for mobile customer engagement, has announced its planned acquisition of SMS connectivity provider TWW do Brasil SA.
Recent news from the Indian press has suggested that Nokia is in talks with Indian operators regarding supply deals for rural 4G expansion.
The announcement that India’s regulator is to reverse plans to eliminate interconnect usage charges (IUCs) in 2020 has received an angry response from Reliance Jio, which is now planning to charge customers for outgoing calls.
Plans to privatise Angola Telecom came a little closer recently with the appointment of a new board for the loss-making utility.
Myanmar’s state-run operator MPT has been granted a mobile financial services licence by the country’s central bank after a lengthy approval process.
The government of Ethiopia could release additional shares in Ethio Telecom following the planned sale of an initial 49% stake scheduled in 2020.
Vietnam has laid out plans to shutter the country’s 2G networks beginning in early 2022.
Beleaguered South African operator Cell C has reportedly attracted the attention of China Mobile – although local rival Telkom SA is also believed to be interested in an acquisition.
Energy solutions provider IPT PowerTech Group has received a round of financing from Finnfund, DEG, Proparco and the European Investment Bank that will allow it to modernise the energy supply infrastructure in Lebanon and Guinea.
Nokia’s Nuage Networks SD-WAN 2.0 solution has been picked up by two major cloud/digital service providers active in the Middle East.
A major new digital payments initiative has been launched across 14 African countries. Will it transform the digital payments landscape?
Vox is partnering with its wholly owned infrastructure provider Frogfoot Networks, along with Telkom and Cloudseed, to launch Lekelela Technical Services in South Africa.
US rating agency Fitch has confirmed what the big three Indian operators probably already suspected: that any ban on Huawei could raise their expenditure on 5G infrastructure.
Rwanda’s Mara Group has launched two smartphones, which it describes as the first Made in Africa models.
America Movil has shot down reports that it is talks with Telefonica and Telecom Italia over a joint purchase of Oi’s mobile assets.
Seaborn Networks and EdgeUno are launching managed cloud and data centre services in Latin America in an expansion of their partnership.
The CTO of the UAE’s du has stated that the operator has no issues concerning the security of Huawei’s network equipment.
Kia Motors India, a division of the South Korean company Kia Motors, is planning to utilize IoT Solutions from Vodafone Idea Business Services, a division of the Indian operator Vodafone Idea, to enable an array of connected car services.
Telefónica is developing direct carrier billing (DCB) in partnership with Docomo Digital to accelerate the adoption of content and digital services among its subscribers in Latin America.
Three companies, including two that were supposedly competing to buy the mobile division of Brazil operator Oi, may now be joining forces in a purchase of the beleaguered operator’s mobile assets.
The Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) has raised objections to a suggested 9% tax on communications services proposed by the country’s government.
In a widely expected move – and one that could benefit struggling operator Oi SA – Brazil's President Bolsonaro has signed a new law aiming to modernise the country’s telecommunications sector.
Thai regulator NBTC (National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission) has scrapped its three contracts with state-owned TOT and blocked the operator from its projects going forward.
Kuwait-headquartered mobile telecommunications company Zain Group has announced that its operation in Saudi Arabia has launched 5G commercial services.
Vodafone is using technology from Parallel Wireless to deploy macro OpenRAN pilots in Turkey and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as part of an initiative to reduce deployment and maintenance costs for RAN platforms.
ND SatCom, a German supplier of – and integrator for – satellite communication systems and solutions, has announced the acquisition of Tecna Suarl, a satellite transmission and radio telecommunications solutions provider based in Dakar, Senegal.
India is the latest market to come under pressure from the US to drop Huawei’s equipment from its 5G network buildouts.
The third major player in the Philippines, DITO Telecommunity Corp, has signed separate agreements with infrastructure firms LCS Holdings and Sky Cable as it looks to expedite its nationwide deployment.
Hard on the heels of the announcement of 5G trials in the country, one of Malaysia’s leading mobile network operators, Maxis, has signed a deal with China’s Huawei Technologies for the provisioning of a 5G network.
Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) is now offering commercial 4G services across several cities in the country.
Mobile data usage in India has increased threefold since last year, with the average monthly usage hitting 9.77GB at the end of June this year.
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