Indian market leader Bharti Airtel is extending its 4G coverage in India from the current 45 cities to a further 296 urban areas across the next month.

The West Africa Cable System now uses 100G transmission technology following an upgrade by Huawei Marine Networks.

Turkish market leader Turkcell has begun a preliminary review to establish whether it will bid in the upcoming tender for managing Lebanon’s state-owned mobile networks.

Orange has confirmed that it will sell its 100% stake in Orange Armenia to local ISP Ucom.

Ooredoo has offered support to those affected in Myanmar’s 11 national disaster zones following severe seasonal flooding. 

SLA Mobile has partnered with the Arabic App Store, GLWAN, to facilitate Carrier Billing with Middle Eastern Mobile Operators.

Hitachi Data Systems has announced a strategic partnership with Mitsumi Distribution to extend its footprint in East and West Africa.

Astellia is extending its monitoring of Digicel Haiti’s 2G network to its 3G network to support the growth of mobile broadband.

Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) has completed the commissioning of the Pacific Caribbean Cable System (PCCS).

Online payment service provider PayFort has announced the launch of its installments service in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Indian operator Reliance Communications (RCom) has had a number of firms express interest in acquiring the tower unit that it is attempting to divest.

Tanzanian market leader TTCL has launched 100% national broadband coverage.

Airtel Gabon has selected Ericsson as its sole supplier for the deployment of a new LTE network.

Telekom Austria has reportedly expressed an interest in buying the 58% stake in Telekom Srbija that the government of Serbia has made available for purchase.

Project Loon has signed an agreement to provide internet coverage in Sri Lanka, marking the first formal agreement between the Google initiative and a national government.

Local companies in Myanmar now have the option of bidding for the country’s fourth mobile licence, adding another level of competition to the market.

Bharti Airtel is cutting a significant percentage of its staff in Africa this year, with the figure likely to be around 15-20%.

UAE headquartered Etisalat are extending their M2M and IoT services for enterprise customers throughout the Middle East, Africa and Asia in a new partnership with Oberthur Technologies.

Line Corporation has released a lightweight version of its popular LINE chat and messaging app for emerging markets that utilizes less storage space and data.

Orange is holding discussions with Armenian internet service provider Ucom regarding the sale of its mobile unit, Orange Armenia.

Russian operator MTS is acquiring IT firm NVision for RUB15 billion ($263.4 million).

Bangladeshi operator Grameenphone has selected solutions from Anite for the collection and analysis of wireless voice quality and broadband network data. 

The government of Zimbabwe may be on course to purchase Vimpelcom’s stake in Zimbabwean operator Telecel.

Finnish mobile manufacturer Jolla has announced that the first licensing partner for its Sailfish OS is Intex Technologies, the second largest smartphone maker in India.