Millicom’s Tigo Business and Microsoft have formed a Microsoft Cloud OS Network (COSN) partnership to deliver cloud computing benefits to businesses in the LatAm region.

Israeli market leader Cellcom has begun legal proceedings against Golan Telecom after the smaller firm abandoned discussion concerning a network-sharing agreement to partner with Hot Mobile.

Batelco has selected Aptilo Networks to enable carrier Wi-Fi for Bahrain Wi-Fi, a nationwide Wi-Fi network throughout the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Turkmenistan’s Ministry of Communications has deployed a new national backbone network with coherent DWDM, MPLS-TP, and service management technologies from Coriant.

Ericsson has extended its relationship with C&W Communications for managed services in the Caribbean.

Telefonica has sold a 1.5% holding in China Unicom for €322 million while retaining a 1% stake in the Chinese number two player.

Indian market leader Bharti Airtel has signed an agreement to acquire spectrum from local operator Aircel across six of the operator’s eight regions.

Bharti Airtel has tapped 5BARz International  to provide its network extender device for customer service.

MTN has suspended the network access of all unregistered subscribers in Cameroon.

India’s impending spectrum auction is expected to bring in around INR1 trillion ($14.8 billion) from the country’s operators.

Gilat Satellite Networks is implementing a turnkey solution for the delivery of broadband and cellular services via satellite throughout rural Ghana for Dizengoff Ghana, a subsidiary of UK-based Balton CP Limited.

AfricaOnline and Intelsat have partnered to provide a managed broadband internet service for sub-Saharan Africa.

Jamaican operator Digicel has selected Agama to provide its end-to-end DTV monitoring solution.

Tanzania has amended a new finance bill in a move which will oblige its operators to list their shares on the country’s stock exchange.

Tecnotree has completed the deployment of its Agility Convergent Billing Solution (CBS) for Mobile GSM services for Omantel. 

Astellia has been awarded a 4G network monitoring deal by Ucom Armenia to help them guarantee the fastest 4G services in Armenia.

iWayAfrica and Avanti have announced that consumer and business customers in Kenya can now benefit from increased downlink speeds to 15Mbps in a move that will improve their satellite connectivity.

Ericsson has been selected as a Managed Services partner by Makedonski Telekom in Macedonia, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom Group.

Xura has announced an agreement with Indonesian market leader Telkomsel to help protect the operator’s more than 153 million subscribers from SMS spam.

Mobile payment enabler Union Mobile Pay is working with Syniverse to enable banking institutions across China to enhance their customer loyalty programs.

Pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom has entered into an agreement to acquire South African communications network operator Neotel.

Russian banking services provider VTB24 has implemented Gemalto’s Ezio Mobile Protector smartphone-based secure software app solution.

Chinese device manufacturer Huawei is developing a bespoke operating system to decrease its dependency on Google’s Android OS.

Intracom Telecom has signed an agreement with Lintasarta to supply its latest Point-to-Multipoint (PtMP) wireless system in Indonesia.

Orange has agreed to acquire Airtel’s mobile operation in Burkina Faso, expanding its footprint in Africa & the Middle East to twenty countries.

Wirecard AG and Verifone have entered into a strategic alliance to rapidly expand the point-of-sale market in Asia Pacific beginning with Indonesia.