Battery manufacturer Saft has received an order from Reliance Jio Infocomm for its Evolion lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery systems.

Zimbabwean incumbent TelOne has signed an extension to its connectivity contract with Avanti.

Thailand’s ICT minister has called for spectrum held by state-owned operators to be returned to the government and refarmed so that it can be resold for 4G use.

Millicom has launched a new 4G wireless network in Tanzania, offering Tigo customers high-speed internet for the first time.

Customers of M-Pesa and MTN Mobile Money in East Africa will be able to transfer money to each other following an agreement between Vodafone Group and MTN Group to interconnect their mobile money services.

Indosat and Facebook have partnered to launch Internet.org in Indonesia as part of the “Internet Tanpa Pulsa Untuk Semua” initiative for all Indonesians.

VimpelCom is expanding its use of Openmind’s SMS traffic control solution in Moscow and Central Russia.

Afghan m-commerce provider M-Paisa is partnering with electrical company Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) to allow bill payments via mobile money transactions.

Intelsat, BT Group, and ITC Global have donated satellite capacity, equipment and manpower to help restore critical communication networks across Vanuatu.

Pan-African MTN Group may consolidate its position in the Nigerian mobile market with the acquisition of CDMA operator Visafone.

Vodacom is launching South Africa’s first commercially available VoLTE network.

Reliance Jio Infocomm is planning to differentiate its 4G service from its competitors’ with bespoke apps.

Orange Polska has selected Ericsson as its OSS transformation partner.

mHealth adoption is growing globally, according to a new report conducted by the mobile trade body Mobile Ecosystem Forum.

STC has selected DragonWave to support its enterprise network expansion.

Indonesian operator Telkomsel has selected Cloudera to provide its big data platform in order to facilitate its transition from a voice and SMS operator to a broadband provider.

America Movil has unveiled plans to spin off its tower mast business as a means of reducing its dominance in the Mexican telecoms market.

Thai state-owned operator CAT is aiming to strike a network sharing deal with the country’s second largest operator dtac in Q2.

Turkish conglomerate Cukurova Holding has begun an attempt to acquire a further stake in the country’s leading mobile operator, Turkcell.

UPC Hungary has appointed Dimoco as its partner for the technical implementation of Mobile Payment services across its mobile offering.