Alphabet’s Loon has partnered with Telkom Kenya for its first commercial agreement in Africa.
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Globe Labs, the innovative developer community of Globe Telecom, has partnered with Nexmo (part of Vonage) to deliver voice solutions to the Philippine market and the rest of Southeast Asia.
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Thailand’s third largest operator dtac has seen its Q2 profits plummet, with service revenue down and prepaid subscribers churning.
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Mobile internet is now available in Cuba for the first time ever, with the government aiming to expand connectivity nationwide by the end of the year.
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Better spectrum pricing policies are needed in developing countries to improve the economic and social welfare of the billions of people that remain unconnected to mobile broadband services, according to a new GSMA report.
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Over the last few years, the Peruvian telecoms regulator OSIPTEL has been introducing a series of measures to boost competition in the mobile communications market.
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Wateen Telecom has partnered with SES Networks to deliver cellular backhaul services to mobile network operators in Pakistan.
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Three of Apple’s senior executives in India have left the company amid a slowdown of iPhone sales across the first half of 2018.
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A new report commissioned by the UN has found that broadband uptake in some of the least economically developed countries in the world has been slowed by a number of societal factors, despite good progress in the deployment of infrastructure.
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The TRIBID green energy project has been officially registered at the 8th Japan-Indonesia JCM Joint Committee in Jakarta.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect is now live in South Africa and located at Africa’s only vendor neutral data centre, Teraco.
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Nokia and China Mobile have signed a one-year frame agreement - valued at up to €1 billion - to support the Chinese mobile operator's transition to a future-oriented network infrastructure, while providing seamless connectivity to more efficiently meet growing data traffic demand.
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State-owned Indian operator BSNL has commissioned NEC Technologies India (NECTI) to create a submarine cable system connecting Chennai and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
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Namibian ISP AfricaOnline has launched a wireless broadband network powered by Radwin’s JET 5GHz Point-to-Multipoint (PtMP) smart Beamforming solutions.
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Globe Telecom is spinning its tower business off into a separate company.
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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.
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India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is withholding its final approval of Vodafone India and Idea Cellular’s merger until the companies pay a total of INR71.7 billion ($1.04 billion) in spectrum fees.
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MTN has not submitted an application for an IPO in Nigeria, according to officials from the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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Ericsson has expanded its Connect to Learn initiative in India.
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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.
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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.
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America Movil must continue splitting its mobile and fixed businesses in Mexico despite its legal challenge against the order.
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Kenya is aiming to connect its more remote regions through Alphabet’s Project Loon.
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TCT Brasil has announced an agreement to distribute solutions from IoT specialist Kerlink in Brazil.
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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.
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Mobile payments providers in China will have their interest revenue slashed by a new government mandate requiring all prepaid funds to be deposited at the country’s central bank from 2019.
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Bangladesh’s second and third largest mobile operators - Robi Axiata and Banglalink - have lent their support to a government proposal to implement a standardised rate for voice calls.
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Beleaguered Indian operator Aircel could be liquidated in the wake of its failure to sell off assets.
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Ooredoo Global Services is using BICS’ crowdsourced fraud prevention platform, FraudGuard, to block fraudulent telecoms activity targeting Ooredoo’s international traffic.
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China Tower has been cleared for a $10 billion IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange, hot on the heels of Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi.
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The unexpected holdup of Vodafone India and Idea Cellular’s merger could see the operators face churning customers and tumbling revenues, reports India’s Economic Times.
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Uruguay has taken the top spot on BuddeComm’s Latin America Telecoms Maturity Index (TMI).
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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.
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Telecom Argentina SA and Cablevision SA have been cleared to complete their proposed merger by competition regulators.
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