Indonesian market leader Telkomsel has signed a partnership agreement with mobile marketing firm TTC Mobile.

Jolla has announced that it is set to build a Sailfish OS ecosystem in Africa, beginning with South Africa.

O3b Networks is providing trunking services to SpeedCast for its customer Christmas Island Internet Administration Limited (CIIA).

Indian number four RCOM has seen its profits leap by 46% following a significant upswing in data consumption.

Carrier neutral connectivity integrator Custom Connect is now offering services in Zenium’s new Turkish data centre, Istanbul One.

The 22% holding in Telecom Italia currently held by the Telco investment group will be broken up following approval from the Argentinean antitrust watchdog CNDC.

Thai market leader AIS has launched FBSS (Fixed Broadband Support System) using ZTEsoft’s ZSmart QRun.

The government of Tanzania is reacquiring a 35% stake in Tanzania Telecommunications Corp (TTCL) from Indian firm Bharti Airtel.

Indosat has become the latest Indonesian operator to launch its own app store.

Computaris and HP have collaborated to secure the network of a unnamed Eastern European mobile carrier.

Liquid Telecom is expanding in Zambia with the acquisition of Realtime, Zambia's second largest Internet Service Provider.

PLDT Global has selected Fring to power its JuanaChat app aimed at helping overseas Filipino migrants and workers to stay connected with friends and families in the Philippines.

Amdocs is supplying an operational data store solution to Telefónica Chile and Telefónica Peru to collect, store and gain actionable business insights from their volumes of data.

Emerging APAC markets, along with Africa and the Middle East are currently the world's fastest growing smartphone markets.

The big three Chinese operators have all confirmed that they will slash their data tariffs as well as increasing network speeds.

Türk Telekom International (TTI) has selected NTT Communications to supply wholesale IP transit services across its operations.

Facebook’s Internet.org initiative has launched in Malawi, raising the number of people who can access its “100-plus free basic services” to 1 billion.

MTN Foundation and Oracle are collaborating on an ICT training project for MTNF scholars.

Global research consultancy TNS has today announced a strategic partnership with GeoPoll, the world’s largest mobile survey platform.

Zain Group and Vodafone have expanded their partner market agreement to deliver Machine-To-Machine (M2M) services to Enterprise and Government sectors in the Middle East.

Kenyan operator Safaricom has selected Ericsson to provide an upgrade and expansion of its converged mobile network infrastructure.

Gabon Telecom is implementing CSG’s Wholesale Business Management Solution as part of an upgrade to its billing systems.

Indian number four Reliance Communication (RCom) is planning to divest at least a majority holding in its tower business, Reliance Infratel.

MTN Nigeria is offering a full month of free downloads for all Nigerian apps, in a campaign branded APPtitude.

Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) is partnering with Ocean Networks to build a 14,200 km submarine cable system linking Hawaii to South America.  

Leading Russian operator MTS has tapped Intracom to supply its mmWave outdoor Ethernet radios.