Bharti Airtel is to acquire the Indian leg of Gulf Bridge International's subsea data cabling network.

Nokia and Orange Middle East & Africa have unveiled what is billed as one of Africa’s largest 4G rollouts.

Subtel, the Chilean telecommunications regulator, has issued two calls for tenders for extensions to its southern fibre network.

Working with WOICC Epsilon is to deploy its Infiny platform in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

UAE-telco du, from the Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), has extended its existing partnership agreement with Epsilon.

Axiata Digital is partnering with RGK Mobile to help integrate two of its major carriers in the Asia Pacific region.

Saudi Telecom Company (STC) has selected Ericsson for a major nationwide expansion of its 4G network in Saudi Arabia, including the deployment of LTE Advanced and Narrow Band-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) in Radio Access Network.

Telefónica and China Unicom have signed an agreement in the field of Internet of Things (IoT).

PCCW Global, the international operating division of HKT, has agreed with Mauritius Telecom to construct and maintain a high speed submarine cable connecting the Indian Ocean Islands of Rodrigues and Mauritius which will vastly improve connectivity for Rodrigues.

Indian ISP Spectra has selected Nokia's IP/MPLS routing and GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) fiber solutions to build out its network.

Thailand’s telecom service revenues are set to grow at a CAGR of 2.7% over the period 2017-22 driven by increased mobile and fixed broadband adoption.

UAE-based telco du is collaborating with Cisco to build a future-proof network.

In partnership with Google, Mara Corporation is to release the Mara X for the African market in the second quarter of 2018.

Dialog Axiata, Sri Lanka’s largest telecommunications services provider, and Ericsson have rolled out South Asia’s first commercial massive IoT network.

Digitally ambitious enterprises across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region are betting big on IoT solutions.

Ooredoo Group is scaling up real-time and one-stop shop solutions stretching from the Maldives and Oman.

UAE telco du is working with Nokia to trial 3GPP standardised 5G New Radio non-standalone technology.

Ericsson and MTS have agreed to establish a 5G research centre in Innopolis, a new Russian high-tech city.

ZTE teams with MTN for MEA 5G commercialisation

Internet test and analytics firm Ookla Company has presented an award to MegaFon for “The Fastest Mobile Network”.

AdaptiveMobile Security has announced a new agreement with an African operator group.

The Saudi Telecom Company (STC) and Cisco have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on the development of 5G communication systems and networks.

Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone, has opened its first Point of Presence (PoP) at Sitel’s Bratislava data center.

CEVA has announced that Ceragon Networks has licensed the CEVA-X2 and CEVA-XC4500 DSPs.

China Telecom has selected the Ayla PaaS IoT platform as the basis for an ambitious IoT initiative.

Mobile and fixed line operator Sudatel Telecom Group and Liquid Telecom are to build new FTTH networks across Sudan.

Ericsson has signed a contract with Pakistan Mobile Communications Ltd (Jazz) for the optimisation and performance management of its complete radio network.

IoT specialist Kerlink and chip company Semtech Corp have mounted an urban geolocation live-test in Aguascalientes City, Mexico.

Ericsson and Chunghwa Telecom, the largest telecom operator in Taiwan, have signed a cooperation memorandum for a joint 5G pilot project.

Businesses throughout Peru will be able to leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) to deliver new revenue-generating services to their customers.

Peter-Service, the largest Russian developer of billing systems, is rebranding as nexign.