Vogel Telecom, a leading carrier’s carrier service provider in Brazil, has selected an integrated OTN switching and coherent optical transport solution from Coriant.
Ericsson and Intel have successfully completed the first 5G 3.5GHz multi-vendor end-to-end Interoperability Developmental Test (IoDT) at a 5G field test in the Chinese capital of Beijing.
Panama-headquartered fintech firm Geva Group has selected Mahindra Comviva as its technology partner for MFS business.
Fortumo and the mobile operator group Orange have launched direct carrier billing in Egypt.
Telkomcel is offering 4G broadband to its subscribers in Timor Leste in conjunction with Ericsson.
Thailand’s regulator NBTC is investigating whether the dtac-owned Line Mobile service is in fact legal.
Sierra Leone’s President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has announced nationwide digitisation program for the country.
Nokia and Orange Jordan are deploying a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network across Jordan.
India Ratings and Research has calculated that TRAI’s recent slashing of India’s interconnect charges will result in a 4%-5% reduction in EBITDA for the country’s top three operators.
WhatsApp’s entire suite of services, including its widely used text messages, has been blocked by the Chinese government.
Chilean regulator Subtel has begun a public consultation over whether MVNOs should receive lower wholesale rates from network operators to allow them to compete more effectively.
Caribbean telecoms provider Cable & Wireless Communications (C&W) has begun the successful restoration of mobile services to Dominica.
9mobile’s thirteen bank creditors are working together to enable a sale of the operator by the end of the year.
Indian regulator TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) is slashing the country’s interconnect charge by over 50% from 1st October, and will completely abolish the fee from 1st January 2020.
NEC Corporation has announced the completion of the Sistem Kabel Rakyat 1Malaysia (SKR1M) 100 gigabit per second (Gbps) submarine cable linking Peninsular Malaysia with Sabah and Sarawak.
UHP Networks has announced RUN, a FaaS broadband data solution optimised to take advantage of the maximum efficiency provided by Intelsat EpicNG’s high-throughput fleet.
The Ghanaian subsidiaries of Millicom and Airtel are on course to merge, with the proposal receiving conditional approval from the country’s National Communications Authority (NCA).
Vodafone Group is lining up a bid for a mobile operating licence in Zambia with the goal of expanding its offering in the market.
Saudi Arabia has repealed its 2013 ban on several OTT and social media services, on the condition that they comply with its regulatory requirements.
Telenor Pakistan’s CEO Irfan Wahab Khan has called for the country’s government to offer subsidised smartphones to expand high-speed connectivity among Pakistani consumers.
Telia has paid almost $1 billion to settle the investigation into its activities in Uzbekistan.
Kerlink is expanding into India by setting up a subsidiary to coordinate the company’s partnership with Tata Communications to deploy the world’s largest LoRaWAN network.
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has confirmed that it will hold the country’s highly anticipated 4G spectrum auction by December.
The UN has confirmed that hundreds of families affected by last month’s deadly mudslide on the peripheries of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown are receiving aid in the form of mobile money.
Syniverse has signed a multiyear agreement to provide LTE roaming and real-time monitoring services to Lebanon-based operator Alfa, managed by Orascom TMT.
Google is the latest company looking to enter India’s attractive mobile payments sector.
Ericsson has initiated legal proceedings against Indian operator Reliance Communications (RCom), claiming that it is owed more than INR11.56 billion ($180 million) by the group and its subsidiaries.
Indian operator Aircel has partnered with digital security specialist Avast to provide its 85 million subscribers with greater online protection.
Energy Vision has ordered over a hundred units of Flexenclosure’s eSite x10 for a large rollout of cell site power systems in Burkina Faso, to be utilised by a major pan-African mobile operator.
Globe Telecom has chosen Gilat for a five year multi-million dollar managed service contract to enable accelerated deployment for the mobile operator’s rapid network expansion throughout the Philippines.
Thailand’s regulator is fast-tracking the auction of spectrum held by the operator dtac in the 850MHz and 1.8GHz bands.
Identity scoring firm Juvo has partnered with Malaysia’s fastest growing MVNO, Tune Talk.
Pakistani satellite network service provider Supernet has partnered with LeoSat Enterprises, which is launching a constellation of up to 108 low-earth orbit communications satellites.
Egyptian operators are set to launch commercial 4G services this month, the country’s telecoms minister has confirmed.
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