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.
The third quarter of 2017 saw a 115% global increase in mobile data traffic, with half of this increase being generated by India and China.
Huawei has won a $28.5 million contract to overhaul Filipino market leader PLDT’s online charging and electronic loading platforms for prepaid users.
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has come under fire from several of the country’s operators for shelving its recommendation to split up market leader Safaricom.
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.
Indian operator Reliance Jio Infocomm is acquiring the assets of its beleaguered rival Reliance Communications for almost INR240 billion ($3.75 billion).
Over the past week, Afryea's friends were receiving more and more messages from her over WhatsApp - and all thanks to the installation of an amazing “wooden pole”.
Unitel’s “Ger Internet” WTTx wireless home broadband solution delivers rural connectivity in remote areas of Mongolia with very low population density.
Malaysian operator Maxis is considering pouring as much as $1.1 billion into its Indian unit Aircel following the collapse of its merger agreement with Reliance Communications.
NEC Corporation is supplying a wide-area disaster prevention system to the Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysical Agency of the Republic of Indonesia (Indonesia).
Underlining its recent affirmation of its commitment to Africa, Bharti Airtel has announced that it will acquire Millicom’s Rwandan unit.
The director general of China’s regulator has stated that internet companies such as Facebook and Google would have to submit to the country’s notoriously stringent censorship laws if they wish to operate in the market.
Philippine Telegraph & Telephone (PT&T) and state-run National Transmission Corp (TransCo) have expressed interest in partnering with China Telecom when it enters the country’s mobile market.
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.
Oi’s proposals to exit bankruptcy protection via restructuring have been approved by two of its main creditor groups.
The Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has awarded the country’s fifth 4G licence to Vietnamobile, a joint venture between Hanoi Telecom and Hong Kong’s Hutchison Asia Telecom.
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.
Bharti Airtel has dismissed reports that it planned to pull out of three unprofitable markets in Africa, but has confirmed that it would consider merging with competitors in some countries.
Bharti Airtel and Globacom have been revealed as two of the operators bidding for 9mobile – formerly Etisalat Nigeria.
MainOne and Tizeti have announced the completion of a joint development project with Facebook to enable the expansion of internet services in Lagos.
Xiaomi is looking to launch an IPO in Hong Kong next year to help it generate around $5 billion in funds for expansion.
Ooredoo Myanmar is launching direct carrier billing in the market with Fortumo.
Thai regulator the NBTC has awarded a satellite licence to start up firm mu space, allowing it to offer satellite-based services until 2032.
MTN has announced a partnership with Cisco Jasper to enable their business customers throughout Africa to deliver Internet of Things (IoT) services worldwide.
Tata Communications and Cloudera have formed a strategic partnership enabling enterprises to harness their data to drive growth.
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