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.

China Telecom has selected Alcatel-Lucent as one of its top three suppliers for the rollout of mobile ultra-broadband services across China.

Telecom Namibia has partnered with Finnish smartphone firm Jolla to launch the latter’s device, Jolla smartphone.

Vodafone and Botswana Telecommunications Corporation Limited (BTCL) have signed a partner market agreement that will help Vodafone increase its African presence.

Anise Asia has selected Virtustream to power the next generation of its cloud platform.

Tata Communications and Indosat have partnered to deliver a wide range of technology and communication solutions for Indonesian enterprises’ growing ICT requirements.

Cambodian mobile market leader Metfone has acquired fourth-placed Beeline for an undisclosed sum.

The government of Thailand is aiming to sell 100MHz of unused 2.3GHz spectrum held by state-owned operator TOT in the country’s forthcoming 4G auctions.

Telefonica Brasil has revealed that it will partially finance its acquisition of broadband firm GVT via a public offering.