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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Nokia and China Mobile are deploying a GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) mobile backhaul network in the Jiangsu and Henan provinces of China.

Satellite data communications services provider Avanti Communications Group has signed a two year contract extension with Imarasat.

Globe Telecom and the mobile payments company Fortumo have signed a partnership to launch enhanced direct carrier billing in the Philippines.

French Polynesia’s Office des Postes et Telecommunications (OPT) has signed a new and expanded contract with Intelsat for Ku-band satellite solutions on Intelsat 18, located at 180° East.