The TRIBID green energy project has been officially registered at the 8th Japan-Indonesia JCM Joint Committee in Jakarta.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect is now live in South Africa and located at Africa’s only vendor neutral data centre, Teraco.

State-owned Indian operator BSNL has commissioned NEC Technologies India (NECTI) to create a submarine cable system connecting Chennai and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

Namibian ISP AfricaOnline has launched a wireless broadband network powered by Radwin’s JET 5GHz Point-to-Multipoint (PtMP) smart Beamforming solutions.

Globe Telecom is spinning its tower business off into a separate company.

GIMAC, the regional electronic money transfer platform of Central Africa, has partnered with TerraPay to enable instant cross border money transfer to bank accounts and mobile wallets in the CEMAC zone, comprising of Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic and Chad.

Ericsson has expanded its Connect to Learn initiative in India.

Africa’s largest mezzanine fund manager Vantage Capital has provided $10 million of mezzanine funding to Cap Tamarin, a residentially-focused “Smart & Happy” Village located on the west coast of Mauritius in a seaside village called Tamarin.

Nokia and China Mobile have signed an MoU to investigate the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to optimise future networks and enable the delivery of new Edge Cloud and 5G services.

TCT Brasil has announced an agreement to distribute solutions from IoT specialist Kerlink in Brazil.

Nokia and Tencent, one of China's leading providers of Internet services, have signed an agreement to carry out joint research and development work to explore the potential of 5G for the provision of new applications.

Beleaguered Indian operator Aircel could be liquidated in the wake of its failure to sell off assets.

Ooredoo Global Services is using BICS’ crowdsourced fraud prevention platform, FraudGuard, to block fraudulent telecoms activity targeting Ooredoo’s international traffic.

Uruguay has taken the top spot on BuddeComm’s Latin America Telecoms Maturity Index (TMI).

VSAT provider SatADSL has partnered with CETel to deliver an expanded range of services in Ku- and C-band across Africa and the Middle East.

Nokia and Sudatel are to trial Nokia 4.5G Pro, 4.9G and 5G mobile technologies along with Nokia's fixed fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) portfolio to enhance the mobile and residential broadband experience in Sudan. 

Peru’s Fitel (Fondo de Inversion en Telecomunicaciones / Telecommunications Investment Fund) has awarded two additional regional telecommunications infrastructure projects to Gilat Satellite Networks.

India’s largest private sector company Reliance Industries is acquiring open telecom solutions provider Radisys for US$1.72 per share in cash.

Sify Technologies has selected Ciena’s converged packet optical solutions to address rising customer demand and provide greater support for increasing data volumes, the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud-based services and Big Data analytics.

Finnish development financier Finnfund is loaning Zain Iraq US$19 million to modernise its network in Northern Iraq and boost the capacity and quality of its existing 3G network in other parts of the country.

Lowan, a leading low power wide area network (LPWAN) solution provider located in Hangzhou, China, has incorporated Semtech’s LoRa devices and wireless radio frequency technology (LoRa Technology) into its smart-grid power meters.

Q1 2018 saw Reliance Jio surpass Vodafone India as the country’s second largest operator in terms of “access service gross revenue”, according to TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India).