Telia has paid almost $1 billion to settle the investigation into its activities in Uzbekistan.
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.
A new shared infrastructure project aimed at promoting rural mobile voice and data coverage in Gabon has been granted Universal Service Fund capital.
South Africa’s FibreCo Telecommunications has selected ADVA Optical Networking to enable its roll out of high-bandwidth services across South Africa.
Gilat Telecom is expanding its satellite capacity with SES Networks to over 3.0Gbps in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Indian regulator TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) has criticised Apple’s failure to grant approval for an anti-spam app to be sold via the App Store.
Oman has postponed the issue of its third mobile licence to 30th November.
Recent pricing wars have seen major telco operators rush toward offering more appealing “unlimited” data packages, demonstrating that mobile data is the most important revenue asset at telcos’ fingertips.
Kenyan market leader Safaricom is looking to expand across Africa via its mobile payments and e-commerce offerings.
Indian state-owned operator BSNL has formed a partnership with Coriant to chart a path towards 5G and IoT deployments in India.
IoT specialist Kerlink has partnered with YEAP! to deploy Argentina’s first LoRaWAN network.
Globe Telecom's mobile commerce subsidiary G-Xchange has partnered with EMQ to expand the latter’s reach in the Philippines through GCash, offering overseas workers greater flexibility and convenience.
Chinese handset manufacturer Xiaomi has been confirmed by Google as a partner on its Android One programme.
Ooredoo Myanmar is partnering Pact, a leading international NGO, to provide the country’s first telemedicine service.
Saudi Arabia’s Mobily has recruited three of the world’s biggest network equipment vendors to implement upgrades to its network over the next three years.
Orange Polska, the leading Polish telecommunication provider, has chosen Comarch as its OSS software vendor to support Orange’s OSS4TTH project.
Bluesky Cook Islands has increased the amount of satellite capacity it is using from SES Networks in order to launch 4G+ service to Rarotonga and Aitutaki, the two key cities of the island nation.
The Chinese State Administration for Industry and Commerce is reviewing allegations from app developers that Apple has abused its dominance in the market.
MyTel, the fourth licensed operator in Myanmar, is aiming to extend its 4G-only network to 90% of the country’s population when it launches in Q1 2018.
India’s largest operators would be likely to abstain from bidding on 700MHz and 5G spectrum if auctions are held this year, according to major analyst groups.
Axiata’s tower business Edotco is partnering with investment firm Dawood Hercules to obtain Pakistan Mobile Communications’ tower assets for $940 million.
Nigeria’s operators are looking to recoup the revenue that they have lost to OTT services and offset rising operating costs by doubling their tariffs.
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