The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has selected Anite to provide it with measurement and analytics solutions.

Filipino operator Globe Telecom has hit out at the country’s regulator the Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) over its review of the firm’s joint takeover of San Miguel with PLDT.

Ruralweb Telecomunicações has deployed Gilat Satellite Networks’ solution for its rural broadband VSAT network. 

Together with its Senegal-based partner Sonatel, Orange has completed its acquisition of 100% of Airtel’s operations in Sierra Leone.

The Telefonica Group has chosen Cellwize’s Self Organizing Network (SON) solution to enhance the customer experience in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

O3b Networks is supporting Digicel Samoa’s LTE services by providing core connectivity services to the operator through its O3b satellite enabled network.

Nokia and MTS have deployed FDD-TDD carrier aggregation technology on MTS's commercial LTE network in Moscow.

Ericsson has been selected by Telenor Serbia to deploy its Charging and Billing in One (CBiO) solution as the operator's new real-time convergent charging and billing platform.

Safaricom is improving services for more than 25 million subscribers in Kenya through Nokia's Customer Experience Management on Demand.

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.