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.

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.

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.

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).

Oman has postponed the issue of its third mobile licence to 30^th November.

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.

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.

Axiata’s tower business Edotco is partnering with investment firm Dawood Hercules to obtain Pakistan Mobile Communications’ tower assets for $940 million.

Telefonica Colombia will generate capital of around €1.8 billion as it attempts to write down debt as well as settle a fine issued to it earlier this year.

Viva Bolivia has launched Viva Ilimitado, a time-based mobile data solution powered by Comptel’s FWD solution.

STC is believed to be the most likely candidate to obtain a 55% stake in Turk Telekom from the operator’s beleaguered majority shareholder Oger Telecom.