A substantial amount of capital continues to be invested in building telecommunications infrastructure throughout the Philippines, reports Research & Markets.

Fixed-line infrastructure remains limited in Timor Leste and significant investment has not been forthcoming due to the strong expansion of mobile services in the country.

An agreement signed by MTS CEO Alexey Kornya and Moscow’s Mayor Sergey Sobyanin will focus on developing communication services and information-telecommunication technologies in the city.

Despite its status as a lesser developed country, Cambodia's efforts to expand and upgrade its telecom infrastructure are bearing fruit.

African mobile network service provider Flickswitch has partnered with BICS to push IoT deployment in Africa.

Thai state-run operator CAT Telecom has had its claim against True Move thrown out by an arbitral tribunal.

Lebanese fixed network services provider Ogero has become one of the first operators globally to run a commercial trial of Nokia’s Fixed Access Network Slicing (FANS). 

The planned merger between Bharti Infratel and Indus Towers has been cleared by India’s National Company Law Tribunal.

Polish operator Vectra has signed a frame agreement to acquire more than 1000 of Teleste’s E8 1.2 GHz optical nodes, which will be delivered to Vectra by the end of Q1 2020.

American Tower Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Eaton Towers, which owns and operates approximately 5,500 communications sites across five African markets.

ARB Apex Bank has renewed its contract with Temenos to provide banking and non-banking services for Ghana’s Rural and Community Banks (RCBs) and their customers.

MTN CEO Rob Shuter has reaffirmed the group’s intention to establish itself as a heavyweight in new African markets, including Ethiopia.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad has called for assurances that the proposed merger of Axiata and Telenor will not result in local job losses.

Vodafone Egypt is implementing Nokia’s cloud-based Subscriber Data Management (SDM) solution to offer innovative services to its 4G customers.

Openet has been selected by leading Indonesian operator Telkomsel to provide its Digital Business Platform (DBP).

Growing urban demographics and the rapid expansion of cities are driving the use of smart city solutions in Africa and the Middle East.

Brazil’s Federal Court of Accounts (Tribunal de Contas da União, or TCU) has approved a contract between the country’s state-controlled telco Telebras and Viasat.

Nokia and U Mobile have signed a three-year contract to deploy a Nokia Single Radio Access Network (RAN) network as well as microwave and IP-based mobile transport technologies.

5G NR is expected to become the major cellular radio access technology in the coming years and testing network performance and operation is crucial to ensure delivery of new services to end users.

DE-CIX India’s Mumbai-IX has started offering 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) access at all enabled data centres in the Indian metropolis.

Tata Communications Transformation Services (TCTS) is partnering with Africa Development Solutions (ADS Group) to facilitate building fibre infrastructure backbone across Africa.

ENGIE has been selected for the operation and maintenance of the Orange Services Group's data centre in Abidjan, for a five-year contract that will start early June 2019.

Chinese operators have again been ordered to reduce data rates for consumers by the country’s State Council, which has also called for them to lower fees on SMEs (small and medium enterprises).

Millicom has closed its acquisition of Telefonica’s Nicaraguan operations.

Amdocs has expanded its strategic partnership with Telefonica to advance the operator’s digital transformation initiatives in Argentina and Chile.