Indian market leader Bharti Airtel is considering an acquisition of Telenor’s Indian operations for $350 million.

The telecom authorities of Argentina have issued their recommendations for increasing competition in the sector.

Egyptian broker Naguib Sawiris is reportedly investing $250 million to pull Brazil’s Oi out of bankruptcy proceedings.

Russian operator group MegaFon is acquiring a controlling interest in the internet firm Mail.ru in a deal which bolsters its content offering as mobile growth drops off.

Tigo Tanzania has begun the process of listing its shares on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (DSE).

Cambodia’s leading microfinance institution Prasac has signed an agreement for a USD 20 million green lending facility with a responsAbility-managed fund focusing on climate financing.

Mahindra Comviva has made its digital payment solutions mobiquity Wallet and payPLUS available via the cloud.

Liquid Telecom has been granted final regulatory approval to become the majority stakeholder of Raha, Tanzania’s leading Internet Service Provider.

Digicel Pacific has tapped O3b Networks to increase satellite capacity and bring state-of-the-art mobile connectivity to the remote Micronesian Island of Nauru.

Moroccan operator Méditel is rebranding as Orange in the market.

ZTE is acquiring a 48% shareholding in Turkey’s Netaş Telekomünikasyon to strengthen its presence in the region.

Orange Group has renewed an agreement for satellite solutions with Intelsat S.A. in Cameroon.

The unnamed party interested in acquiring Golan Telecom has been named as Israeli group Elco Holdings following the revelation that the deal looks set to go ahead.

Digital money transfer provider SimbaPay is now providing transfer services to Ghana and Uganda.

Telia Carrier today announced that it has established an additional point of connectivity in Budapest, Hungary.

Changes to the regulation governing China’s spectrum policy will allow 5G airwaves to be sold at auction rather than simply allocated by the relevant authorities, as has previously occurred.

Societe Generale announces that it has signed a merchant acquiring partnership with American Express in eight countries in Sub-Saharan Africa where the Bank operates.

South African firm Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) is deploying Ciena’s Blue Planet orchestration software to automate the delivery of Ethernet services across its multi-vendor network.

Indian number three Idea Cellular is reportedly seeking a buyer for its tower unit for $1 billion after abandoning its previous plan of selling a minority stake.

MTN Uganda has announced the launch of outbound mobile money transfer services to Rwanda and Kenya.

Airtel Nigeria has selected Aviat Networks as its countrywide managed service partner (MSP) for enterprise access.

Cellcom has confirmed that it will file a request for the liquidation of Golan Telecom, a few days after it initially revealed it was considering such a move.

MTN has commenced talks with the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding an initial public offering in 2017.

Ericsson has been selected by Claro Colombia for an OSS/BSS transformation that will drive faster service rollout and streamline end-to-end business processes. 

Israeli market leader Cellcom is considering adding a liquidation request to its existing legal challenge against Golan Telecom.

Vodacom Tanzania has submitted a draft IPO prospectus in the face of a deadline for listing on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange.

Cambodian market leader Smart Axiata has tapped 365squared to reduce spam and monetise its secure application-to-person (A2P) SMS traffic.

Rivada Networks’ legal challenge against its disqualification from Mexico’s wholesale network tender could be met by a counter-challenge from the state, the government has warned.

Reliance Communications subsidiary Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) has deployed its Cumulous Network, which will boost connectivity in the seven Indian Capital cities across the Indian sub-continent.