Airtel has partnered with digital content subscription services and mobile payment aggregation provider RGK Mobile for direct billing services in India.

Thai market leader AIS and state-run provider TOT have agreed a deal that will allow the former to deliver commercial services using the latter’s 2.1GHz spectrum.

China has maintained its dominance in the global IoT market, with Chinese operators covering around 46% of cellular IoT connections in Q3 2017.

Liberty Global has split off its Latin American unit into a separate entity branded Liberty Latin America to provide it “access to the capital and resources necessary to achieve superior financial and strategic growth”.

Indian regulator TRAI has begun a public consultation over a four-year plan aimed at securing the country’s position as a “front runner of the fourth industrial revolution” by 2022.

Qatar’s Ooredoo has confirmed that it has held discussions over the possibility of acquiring a stake in Turkey’s Turk Telekom, but noted that no tangible progress has been made on the matter.

Huawei has won a $28.5 million contract to overhaul Filipino market leader PLDT’s online charging and electronic loading platforms for prepaid users.

Tencent has hit back against suggestions that it monitors user accounts by stating that it does not store user messages sent via its popular WeChat service.

After completing trials in Q3 2017, AT&T has now launched its LTE-M network in Mexico.

The current owners of Nigeria's 9mobile have been granted more time to find a buyer for the operator by the country’s regulator.

NEC Corporation is supplying a wide-area disaster prevention system to the Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysical Agency of the Republic of Indonesia (Indonesia).

Timor Telecom (TT) has expanded its partnership with SES Networks to enable international voice traffic between Timor-Leste and the rest of the world, SES announced today.

Zain Group is leveraging Cisco advanced segment routing platforms and WAN automation to bring the benefits of distributed intelligence and centralised control to its network.

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT Group) has signed an agreement with Fon for the delivery of Wi-Fi connectivity and roaming services to its subscribers.

NICE has announced a new strategic partnership with mobile device and IT infrastructure management company Brightstar India.

PT Hutchison 3 Indonesia (H3I) has chosen the Nokia Cloud Packet Core solution to help meet rapid data growth in the Indonesian market.

Vodafone India and Idea Cellular are reportedly making “closing adjustments” to their merger agreement ahead of its closure in 2018.

MainOne and Tizeti have announced the completion of a joint development project with Facebook to enable the expansion of internet services in Lagos.

Ooredoo Myanmar is launching direct carrier billing in the market with Fortumo.