Irish tech company Zyalin Group is launching its new internet control technology product suite, iKydz, with several different providers across Ghana and Lebanon. The intention is to make internet safer for children throughout these markets.

Standard Chartered has completed a simultaneous multi-market launch of its digitally-led retail banks in Tanzania and Ghana, with Kenya’s roll out scheduled to occur shortly.

Nokia has mounted a successful field trial of its Cloud RAN architecture on the China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC) live 5G NSA network in Shanghai.

The South African smartphone market enjoyed solid growth in 2018, with unit sales rising 7.2% year-on-year to around 13.5 million, and value growing 13.2% to just under R35 billion.

Turkcell and Airspan have announced the first deployment of AirDensity to deliver coverage and capacity to the most constrained indoor locations in Turkey.

Although most, or 65%, of mobile Internet users visit Google, they spend most of their time on social networks Youtube and Facebook, according to Latvia’s mobile operator BITE. These websites also consume the largest amount of Internet capacity.

PPF Group has acquired a 100% stake in Serbia-based Telenor Banka from Telenor Group, having obtained the necessary regulatory approval from National Bank of Serbia.

Bolivia’s Telecommunications and Transport Regulation and Control Authority - ATT - reports that, at the end of 2018, there were 11,445,830 mobile connections in the country. This represents a penetration of just over 100%.

Nokia has announced that Bharti Airtel will trial its homogenous fronthaul solution which can support 4G, 5G and enterprise services through a common platform.

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has chosen Fontech software to deliver public Wi-Fi connectivity. The deal includes Fontech’s Wi-Fi Service Management Platform (WSMP) and Connection Manager.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released a white paper on 'Enabling 5G in India'. The TRAI notes that, globally, full scale deployment of 5G networks is expected to start by late 2019 or early 2020 and that pilots for these have already commenced.

Global communications company Viasat and social media behemoth Facebook are collaborating to accelerate the deployment of affordable, high-speed, high-quality internet to Mexican communities that lack reliable internet, or have no connectivity at all.

According to a new reports from the Canalys market research firm, Indonesia was the brightest spot in Asia Pacific’s 2018 smartphone market. Shipments there reached a record high of 38 million in the year, up 17.1% on 2017.

Chilean telecom operator Gtd Teleductos S.A. has awarded contracts worth €50 million to the Prysmian Group to develop a turnkey repeater-less submarine cable system connecting Arica to Puerto Montt in Chile.

Nokia's annual Mobile Broadband India Traffic (MBiT) Index study of mobile broadband performance in India reveals that the increase in the consumption of data across the country led to overall growth of data traffic by 109%, with 4G technology constituting 92% of this growth.

Latvian telecommunications operator LMT has deployed Harmonic ‘s EyeQ™ content-aware encoding solution for its live OTT service, delivered to TVs via 4G set-top boxes.

Phoenix Tower International (PTI) has reached an agreement with Uniti Group to acquire the ownership rights relating to over 500 wireless communication tower sites located across Mexico, Colombia and Nicaragua.

Ericsson has been selected by Telefónica Movistar México, a subsidiary of Telefónica South America, to deploy the Service Operation Center (SOC) platform to enhance subscribers’ experience through Ericsson Expert Analytics.

Sky and Space Global has received signed binding commitments for raising $12 million in a two-tranche share placement to investors as part of its $15 million fundraising effort.

Cambridge Broadband Networks (CBNL) has signed an agreement to provide carrier-class mmWave connectivity to MAXnet, the leading wireless internet service provider (WISP) in Sudan.

Es'hailSat, Qatar Satellite Company and BridgeSat will provide businesses and governments across the Middle East with affordable access to laser-based satellite broadband services.

Tele2 Russia has launched SunTech’s SunVizion Network Inventory and Planning solution to store and manage information about logical and physical network elements and optimise the processes related to network management.

Indian market leader Vodafone Idea has selected Ericsson to deploy 5G-ready equipment across select markets in India.

MTN Group has reaffirmed its innocence as its long-running legal spat with Turkcell reignited after a South African ambassador was arrested on corruption charges.

Hutchison Telecommunications Lanka (Hutch Lanka) and the Sri Lankan Board of Investments have signed a deal to deploy a 4G network across the island nation.

The Warsaw Metropolitan Police (KSP Warsaw) are expanding their DMR Simulcast system using the OmniBAS platform from Intracom Telecom.

The CEO of Russian bank VTB has confirmed that it intends to sell its interest in Tele2 Russia to state-run operator Rostelecom.

Kalimat Telecom, a subsidiary of Kuwait’s Trade Links, has selected Parallel Wireless to build out its mobile broadband network in Iraq.

Orange Polska is deploying Matrixx Digital Commerce as a foundation for its digital transformation.