Welcome to the fifth edition of UK Technology Today (UKT2), your interactive guide to the UK Mobile Industry at Mobile World Congress and & 4YFN 2018.

The chief executive of Turkey’s Garanti Bank has stated that several parties have expressed interest in obtaining a stake in Turk Telekom.

India’s Reliance Jio is reportedly gunning for the launch of FTTH (fibre to the home) broadband before the end of March.

South Africa’s Standard Bank is reportedly aiming to launch an MVNO.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Spain’s Telefonica, one of the world’s largest telecommunications groups, have agreed to work together to leverage the use of cutting-edge digital technologies for agricultural development, food security and nutrition in the developing world.

NEC Corporation is increasing its investment in XON Holdings Proprietary Limited (XON), an ICT solutions company based in the Republic of South Africa, making it a subsidiary through NEC Europe Ltd.

Ooredoo Myanmar has extended its 4G coverage to 200 townships, encompassing two-thirds of the country’s inhabited settlements.

Network security and caching specialist MARA Systems has selected Mumbai-IX to provide its services to customers in India.

LTE chipmaker Sequans Communications announced that its LTE chipset has been selected by Bolt, the 4G LTE service of PT Internux, to power an LTE outdoor unit (ODU) that is now available and shipping to customers in Indonesia.

Nokia and China Unicom are to deploy a cloud-native core network based on Nokia AirGile technology in seven Chinese provinces.

Orange and the CNED (National Distance Learning Centre) have partnered to facilitate access to educational content on smartphones in Africa.

Malaysia’s three biggest mobile operators have all renewed their 2.1GHz spectrum licences for a fee of MYR118.4 million ($30.5 million) each.

New research on the pay-TV channel ecosystem from Media Partners Asia (MPA) shows India powering revenue and profit growth for regional pay-TV broadcasters in Asia Pacific.

Sierra Leone’s state-owned incumbent operator Sierratel has launched mobile 4G services.

Openet today has entered into a partnership with Globe Telecom to provide its Digital Business Platform to the Philippines-based operator.

Huawei has entered into an agreement with UnionPay to expand its Huawei Pay service beyond China for the first time.

Bulgarian operator Mtel is using Amdocs’ DigitalONE platform to overhaul its digital commerce and care experience offering.

Telenor has announced that it is weighing up an offer that it has received for four of its units in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).

Bharti Airtel’s acquisition of Millicom’s Tigo Rwanda unit has been approved by Rwanda’s Utilities Regulatory Authority.

Bulgaria could see the launch of its first MVNO if discussions between the country’s mobile operators and five TV and internet providers prove fruitful.