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.

Local services marketing platform mydala is implementing carrier billing from Fortumo.

Beeline Kazakhstan has tapped Astellia to help improve its network performance and boost customer experience.

Zain and Huawei have partnered to bring convergent billing to Iraq for the first time.

Global Technologies has acquired C-band capacity on Eutelsat’s 8 West B satellite in order to upgrade the mobile and Internet network of Tunisie Télécom subsidiary Mattel.

Cable & Wireless Communications (C&W) has partnered with Juvo to boost access to mobile credit services and drive financial inclusion across 15 Caribbean markets.

Sonema has extended its agreement with Intelsat SA for satellite services to support enterprise networks in Africa.

Cambridge Broadband Networks (CBNL) has announced a partnership with InterCEL + to build a major wireless network.

Angola Cables has selected Etix Everywhere as its partner to build its critical infrastructure globally as part of a project to offer a lower latency route between the USA and Africa.

Satellite operator SES S.A. has announced a multi-year agreement with MADA Communications International to provide Internet services in Juba, South Sudan.

Telecom Egypt is deploying solutions from Intelsat SA to support communications services in the country.

Gilat Satcom has gone live on O3b’s ‘Fibre in the Sky’ satellite network, offering latency and throughput comparable to fibre.

BICS has announced the establishment of a new point-of-presence (PoP) in Nairobi, Kenya, thereby extending the company’s reach in the African region.

Pakistani operator Zong has set up a state-of-the-art 4G internet lab at Mashal Model School for marginalised street children.

South African B2B wireless services provider Comsol Networks has signed a frame contract agreement for terminals and hub site equipment with Intracom Telecom.

Telia Carrier has established a new point of presence (PoP) in Zagreb, Croatia, to deliver wholesale IP transit and Ethernet services for carriers, content and cloud providers.