Palau Telecoms is extending its contract with SES Networks until 2020, increasing its amount of medium earth orbit (MEO) connectivity by 150%.
Montenego’s Crnogorski Telekom has signed a 10-year Energy Infrastructure Management agreement with Ericsson.
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has announced that WhatsApp is currently conducting beta tests for money transfer service that it aims to launch as a “full feature product”.
Hungarian firm Konzum Nyrt has affirmed its interest in acquiring the local operations of Telenor if it makes them available for sale.
Nokia and Tele2 IoT have signed a five-year agreement to enable the delivery of IoT services to Tele2 enterprise customers based on Nokia's worldwide IoT network grid (WING).
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The chief executive of Turkey’s Garanti Bank has stated that several parties have expressed interest in obtaining a stake in Turk Telekom.
Shareholders in Reliance Communications (RCom) have given their support to the proposed sale of its wireless assets to Reliance Jio Infocomm.
The winners of the GSMA’s Global Mobile Awards 2018 (GLOMO Awards) will be announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Paytm bridges digital & financial inclusion to strengthen India’s Fintech economy and make transactions seamless.
KaiOS puts internet access and smartphone features within reach of a much larger group of people.
Juvo partners with mobile operators to establish a financial identity and provide access to financial services for unbanked prepaid mobile users around the world.
Huawei’s RuralStar self-contained cell-site solution expands cellular coverage to areas where it was previously uneconomical.
BIMA affordable insurance and health products address the very low rates of insurance penetration in African emerging markets.
India’s Reliance Jio is reportedly gunning for the launch of FTTH (fibre to the home) broadband before the end of March.
China Mobile has partnered with Viavi to introduce 5G services in China by the end of 2019, ahead of the 2020 launch that most of the country’s operators are targeting.
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.
The government of India has announced plans to invite bids for 3,000MHz of spectrum across nine frequency bands, in what would be the country’s largest ever auction.
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.
Mexico’s regulator Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) has said that its upcoming spectrum auctions will be open to all interested operators.
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.
After a steep increase in its leasing costs, China Tower has agreed to lower its rates for rental agreements following negotiations with the country’s three main operators, China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom.
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.
Investment firm Teleology Holdings has reportedly won the bidding for Nigeria’s beleaguered operator 9mobile with an offer of roughly $500 million.
Bulgarian operator Mtel is using Amdocs’ DigitalONE platform to overhaul its digital commerce and care experience offering.
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