Microsoft and Apple have urged the UAE’s telecom authorities to lift their current ban on third party voice and video calling services.
Saga Africa Holdings has completed its acquisition of Millicom’s Tigo Senegal operations.
Indian operator Reliance Jio has turned a profit for the second consecutive quarter, with its total earnings for the last financial year reaching INR7.23 billion ($108 million).
Etisalat and CK Hutchison are merging their operations in Sri Lanka to improve their services in the market.
Bharti Airtel is set to combine its towers unit Bharti Infratel with the operations of Indus Towers.
America Movil Group has gone live with Flytxt’s flagship analytics and marketing automation product in six markets in Central America.
Nokia and Ooredoo Myanmar have expanded their five-year partnership by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop a program which will further enhance the quality of network experience for Ooredoo’s customers.
Telenor India could be forced into bankruptcy, as it has amassed heavy losses while waiting for the long-delayed approvals that would enable it to be acquired by Bharti Airtel.
Research firm Canalys reports that Xiaomi has seen its annual shipments grow by 155% in India, taking the lead in a smartphone market that is growing yet rapidly consolidating.
Limelight Networks is opening a new Point-of-Presence (PoP) in South Africa to drive its commitment to building out infrastructure globally and create new industry partnerships in the region.
Croatian operator Vipnet has selected Bulb Technologies’ CEMPRESSO Customer Care to automate its customer care service and enhance its network troubleshooting service.
As part of its West Africa expansion, MainOne has secured a licence to expand national and international connectivity services in Cote d’Ivoire.
Flooz users in Togo can now send and receive money to and from mobile wallets and bank accounts across the region thanks to a new partnership announced between Moov Togo and MFS Africa.
A Nigerian federal court has ruled that Teleology Holdings’ acquisition of the beleaguered operator 9mobile must be halted until a shareholder dispute has been settled.
Polaris Networks has deployed its LTE packet core for Globe Internet, a Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) in Malawi.
Cisco and KaR-Tel, a leading mobile and network service provider in Kazakhstan, have announced the availability of the Cisco Jasper Control Centre automated IoT connectivity platform for all companies looking to deliver IoT services to their customers on KaR-Tel’s mobile network.
Tata Communications and South African ICT services provider Dreamtime Technologies (DTTech) have joined forces to build a new cloud-based virtual mobile network to serve African mobile and IoT providers.
Russian operators have been ordered to block access to the secure messaging app Telegram from today (16th April).
The imminent merger between Vodafone India and Idea Cellular could result in as many as 5,000 staff – nearly a quarter of the operators’ combined workers – being made redundant.
78% of the world’s mobile subscribers are prepaid – equating to billions of price-sensitive transient consumers. In emerging markets, where prepaid penetration is even higher, mobile network operators (MNOs) are fighting head-to-head to win them over.
The government of the Philippines has established an oversight committee to ensure that the introduction of a third player to the country’s mobile market is “undertaken in an integrated and transparent manner”.
Teleology’s acquisition of Nigerian operator 9mobile could fall through if it does not pay the remaining $450 million fee within 90 days.
Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri has said in an interview that he expects India to be one of the first countries to see 5G rollouts as the “explosion of data is massive” in the market.
The GSMA is launching a global scheme for mobile money providers to offer safer, more transparent and more resilient financial services to millions of mobile money users around the world.
Telkom Kenya is reportedly interested in taking over Airtel Kenya’s operations, and is considering merging some of its operations with the Indian firm’s Kenya units as a preliminary step towards this.
MTN and Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) are collaborating to leverage each other’s assets in order to offer more value to their respective customers across the continent.
A Mexican federal judge has agreed to review America Movil’s legal challenge against the regulator’s demand for the operator to spin off its fixed-line unit.
Intelsat S.A. and Vodacom Business Nigeria have signed an agreement for satellite services that will see the latter expand its enterprise broadband networks and enable new and enhanced services throughout West Africa.
Thai regulator NBTC’s 2015 proposal to relax the payback terms for the 4G licences issued to Thailand’s two largest operators - AIS and True Move – is being abandoned after it drew strong criticism.
PayPal and Safaricom have formed a partnership that enables Kenyans to seamlessly move money between their M-PESA and PayPal accounts.
Almost 101 million prepaid SIM cards were blocked by the Indonesian government during March as a result of users neglecting to re-register their prepaid numbers using a valid form of identity.
Russia’s regulator Roskomnadzor has begun legal action to block Telegram, the secure messaging app, following its repeated refusal to allow the government access to user data.
India’s Supreme Court has cleared the partial sale of debt-laden Reliance Communications (RCom)’s wireless assets to Reliance Jio.
Indian market leader Bharti Airtel and its rival Reliance Jio Infocomm are separately attempting to generate funds via bond sales, seemingly with the goal of ending the price war that has been waging in the country since Jio entered the market in 2016.
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