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MTN wins 2.6 GHz auction in Nigeria, pledges investment broadband infrastructure

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James Barton
Category: Operators
01 July 2016
8271 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Mobile Broadband
  • Nigeria
  • MTN
  • MTN Nigeria
  • Spectrum Auctions

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has declared MTN as winner of its latest auction for a ten-year frequency spectrum licence for the 2.6GHz band.

Omantel transforming Convergent Billing with Tecnotree

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James Barton
Category: Revenue & Billing
01 July 2016
6275 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Oman
  • TecnoTree
  • Omantel
  • Convergent Billing

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

Ucom Armenia improves 4G customer experience with Astellia

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
01 July 2016
7763 views
  • Central South Asia
  • 4G
  • Network Monitoring
  • Astellia
  • Armenia
  • Ucom Armenia

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 improve download speeds across East Africa

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James Barton
Category: Satellite Networks
30 June 2016
8701 views
  • Satellite
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Kenya
  • Tanzania
  • Avanti
  • iWayAfrica
  • Downlink Speeds

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.

Makedonski Telekom signs managed services agreement with Ericsson

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
30 June 2016
9726 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Ericsson
  • Managed Services
  • Makedonski Telekom
  • Macedonia

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

Telkomsel selects Xura’s Spam Shield for advanced SMS spam detection and filtering

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James Barton
Category: Cybersecurity
30 June 2016
6676 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Indonesia
  • Telkomsel
  • Spam
  • Xura

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

Syniverse and Union Mobile Pay Enable Free Wi-Fi for Roamers

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James Barton
Category: Mobile Finance
29 June 2016
7484 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Wi-fi
  • Syniverse
  • Data Roaming
  • Wi-fi Hotspots

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

Liquid Telecom and RBH announce agreement to acquire Neotel

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James Barton
Category: Operators
29 June 2016
8640 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Acquisitions
  • Liquid Telecom
  • Neotel

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

VTB24 deploys Gemalto eBanking mobile secure app in Russia

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James Barton
Category: Mobile Finance
29 June 2016
6786 views
  • Security
  • Mobile Finance
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • Gemalto

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

Telefonica partners with Huawei and ZTE for 5G

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James Barton
Category: Vendors
29 June 2016
9851 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Telefonica
  • ZTE
  • Huawei
  • 5G

Telefonica has partnered with the Chinese vendors ZTE and Huawei in order to bolster its 5G development.

Huawei to launch bespoke OS to move away from Google

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James Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
28 June 2016
6581 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Smartphones
  • China
  • Huawei
  • Operating Systems

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

Intracom Telecom Delivers Enterprise Customer Radio Connectivity for Lintasarta in Indonesia

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
28 June 2016
6768 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Indonesia
  • Lintasarta
  • Point-to-Multipoint
  • Intracom

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

Orange expands to Burkina Faso with Airtel acquisition

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James Barton
Category: Operators
28 June 2016
8921 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Orange
  • Acquisitions
  • Airtel
  • MFS
  • 3.75G
  • Burkina Faso

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

India lining up record spectrum auction including 700MHz

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
28 June 2016
7886 views
  • Central South Asia
  • 4G
  • India
  • Spectrum
  • 700MHz
  • Spectrum Auctions

India’s cabinet has backed a regulator proposal to auction of a huge amount of spectrum that could generate as much as a record INR5.6 trillion ($85 billion).

Wirecard and Verifone bringing Complementary Payment Services and Solutions to Indonesia

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James Barton
Category: Mobile Finance
22 June 2016
6582 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Mobile Payments
  • Indonesia

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

Telco Systems Rolls Out New 10GE High Capacity Carrier Ethernet Network for KENET in Kenya

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James Barton
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
22 June 2016
11528 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Kenya
  • Ethernet
  • Telco Systems

Telco Systems has successfully deployed a new 10GE high capacity carrier Ethernet network for the Kenya Education Network (KENET) in Kenya.

Oi abandons debt restructure; files for bankruptcy protection

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James Barton
Category: Operators
21 June 2016
10679 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Oi
  • Bankruptcy
  • Debt Restructuring

Brazilian operator Oi has filed for bankruptcy protection after failing to negotiate a deal to restructure its debt.

China rules against Apple over iPhone 6 patent infringement

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
21 June 2016
7459 views
  • Devices
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Apple
  • Patents
  • iPhone 6

Apple has hit a setback in China after the country’s regulator for intellectual property upheld a claim that the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus infringe on an exterior design patent held by a Chinese company.

Telefónica del Perú and ZTE build Peru’s first commercial FMC IMS VoLTE network

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
21 June 2016
7420 views
  • Latin America
  • Peru
  • ZTE
  • Telefonica del Peru
  • IMS VoLTE

Telefónica del Perú and ZTE have begun commercial operation of the first IP multimedia subsystem voice over long-term evolution (IMS VoLTE) network in Perú.

MTN announces Vodafone exec as new CEO

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James Barton
Category: Operators
20 June 2016
9437 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Nigeria
  • MTN
  • Appointments
  • NCC

MTN has appointed a Rob Shuter, a major executive from Vodafone, as its new CEO.

US authorities investigating Ericsson for corruption allegations

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James Barton
Category: Vendors
17 June 2016
7546 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Ericsson
  • Corruption

Ericsson has confirmed that it has been questioned by US authorities as part of an investigation into alleged corruption related to the Swedish vendor’s business in China.

Huawei Interview: Real-Time Cloud-Based Services Can Increase Operator Revenues

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Alec Barton
Category: Cloud & Virtualisation
17 June 2016
7746 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • Huawei
  • Cloud Services
  • Enterprise Comms
  • CaaS

New customised services such as cloud-based, real-time, high definition (HD) video will become one of the main sources of operator revenue in future as voice, SMS and data income streams decline.

ABS launches final satellite ABS-2A one year after ABS-3A

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James Barton
Category: Satellite Networks
17 June 2016
8784 views
  • Satellite
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Central South Asia
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Boeing
  • ABS Satellite

ABS has successfully launched its ABS-2A satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 full thrust rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Cable & Wireless Seychelles improves network planning with Teoco

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
15 June 2016
6956 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Seychelles
  • Network Planning
  • Teoco
  • Cable and Wireless Seychelles

Cable & Wireless Seychelles has chosen Teoco’s Asset network planning tool to improve the performance of its 2G, 3G and LTE-A mobile networks.

Cellcom claims compensation from Golan for breaching merger agreement

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James Barton
Category: Operators
14 June 2016
10252 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Mergers
  • Israel
  • Compensation
  • Golan Telecom
  • HOT
  • Cellcom

Israeli operator Cellcom is demanding ILS900 million ($233 million) from smaller competitor Golan Telecom as compensation after it pulled out of merger talks to work with another company.

Nokia lands $1 billion network transition deal with China Mobile

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James Barton
Category: Cloud & Virtualisation
14 June 2016
7759 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China Mobile
  • China
  • Cloud
  • Nokia
  • Base Stations
  • IoT

China Mobile has signed a €1.36 billion ($1.5 billion) one-year contract with Nokia.

VimpelCom and Ericsson sign software partnership for infrastructure transformation

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James Barton
Category: Cloud & Virtualisation
14 June 2016
8187 views
  • BSS
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • VimpelCom
  • Ericsson
  • Digitisation

VimpelCom has entered into a software partnership with Ericsson in a deal worth more than USD 1 billion that will radically transform VimpelCom's global IT infrastructure.   

IHS and HTN Close First African Mobile Infrastructure Consolidation Transaction in Nigeria

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
14 June 2016
9065 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Towers
  • Acquisitions
  • Helios Towers
  • Nigeria
  • Consolidation
  • IHS

IHS Holding has completed the acquisition of Helios Towers Nigeria’s 1,211 diversified tower sites throughout Nigeria.

Vodafone Zambia launching 4G as Afrimax secures partner market agreement

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
13 June 2016
7485 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • 4G
  • Vodafone
  • Zambia
  • Afrimax
  • Partner Market Agreements

Afrimax Group has signed a partner market agreement with Vodafone in Zambia to offer 4G data services under the Vodafone Zambia brand.

RCom and Aircel set to merge in July

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James Barton
Category: Operators
13 June 2016
10579 views
  • India
  • Mergers
  • RCom
  • Bharti Airtel
  • Aircel
  • Maxis

The ongoing merger talks between Indian number four RCom and smaller Aircel have reportedly led to an agreement due to wrap within a month.

MTN settles Nigerian fine with $1.7B payment

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
10 June 2016
11090 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Nigeria
  • MTN
  • MTN Nigeria
  • NCC
  • Penalties

MTN Nigeria has come to an agreement with the government of Nigeria over the colossal fine issued to the operator eight months ago.

Syniverse Optimises Roaming for Djibouti Telecom

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
09 June 2016
7381 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Syniverse
  • Fraud Prevention
  • Djibouti
  • Djibouti Telecom

Djibouti Telecom is implementing a suite of solutions from Syniverse for performance analysis, forecasting and budget management, and fraud protection.

TIM Partners with Accedian to become Brazil’s first MEF 2.0 Certified operator

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James Barton
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
09 June 2016
6963 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • TIM Brasil
  • MEF
  • Carrier Ethernet
  • Accedian

TIM Brasil has attained Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) 2.0 certification for its nationwide Carrier Ethernet business services in Brazil.

Show.me delivering CEM solutions to Zain in Kuwait

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James Barton
Category: Customer Management
09 June 2016
7962 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Big Data Analytics
  • CEM
  • Kuwait
  • Zain Kuwait

Zain Kuwait is deploying new marketing solutions from Show.me across Kuwait.

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