Half of Africa’s towers will have been transferred from MNOs to independent towercos by the end of 2015, according to research organisation TowerXchange.
Ooredoo has announced the official launch of its new 3G service in Myanmar will take place on August 15th this year, beating Telenor Myanmar by a matter of a few weeks.
Algerian VSAT operator Divona has selected Eutelsat Communications to consolidate its network connectivity offer to mobile telecom operators and enterprises.
The tower company formed by a joint venture between China’s three leading operators will reportedly be listed publicly to raise private capital.
Telefonica has confirmed that it is in talks with a Mexican mobile firm via a regulatory filing, but has declined to name the company in question.
The worldwide smartphone market grew 23.1% year over year in the second quarter of 2014 (2Q14), establishing a new single quarter record of 295.3 million shipments.
NTT Group’s ICT branch NTT Comm has partnered with Filipino operator PLDT (Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company) which will bring NTT Comm’s enterprise-grade infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solution to PLDT’s enterprise customers.
Mobile solutions provider SLA Mobile has partnered with Telly, a firm which uses social media to provide users with video-on-demand recommendations.
Tigo Bolivia has launched a 4G high-speed internet service offering users up to 100 Mbps.
Millicom has sold its 50% stake in Mauritius operator Emtel to its business partner Currimjee Jeewanjee.
Claro’s Costa Rican unit has chosen Ericsson to supply its LTE network.
Mobile payments company Bango has launched one-click Direct Operator Billing for Samsung Galaxy Apps with Etisalat.
Thailand’s 4G auctions have been postponed for a year by the country’s interim military government.
A new agreement signed by Myanmar’s state-supported operator Myanmar Posts & Telecommunications (MPT) will see Japanese firms KDDI and Sumitomo entering the market to modernise the operator’s mobile and fixed infrastructure.
The big three Chinese operators are jointly founding a towers firm to facilitate their 4G rollouts.
Microsoft’s recent round of swingeing job cuts will see 18,000 staff laid off. A significant proportion of this number – around 12,500 - comes from the handset business formerly owned by Nokia that Microsoft acquired earlier this year.
Algerie Telecom, Algeria’s state-owned operator, has appointed Nokia Networks to upgrade its transport network sites.
Big DataAnalytics solution provider Flyxt has announced a strategic tie up with Vodacom, Mozambique’s leading mobile network.
Snapdeal, India’s largest online marketplace, has partnered with Finish smartphone company Jolla to launch a smartphone running Sailfish OS, an open source operating system formerly developed by Nokia as Meego.
Millicom has launched a low-cost mobile English language learning course called EduMe English in Rwanda.
America Movil controller Carlos Slim has expressed his belief that potential buyers for the assets that the operator plans to sell are unlikely to come from within Mexico.
The telecommunications, media and digital (TMD) industry has a proven history of strong growth and attractive returns in emerging markets.
China’s three major operators have been told by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) to lower their expenditure on marketing.
Samsung Electronics West Africa is launching Celltick’s ‘Start’ based technology across its complete range of Android phones via the Samsung Apps Store.
Vodafone Group and Bemobile (trading as “bmobile”) have announced the formation of a new Partner Market agreement in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
America Movil is selling off some of its Mexican assets in order to reduce its market share to less than 50%.
Yemeni operator TeleYemen is expanding its agreement with Intelsat to provide additional support for its VSAT network within Yemen.
The telecoms ministry of Argentina, Secom, has detailed the rollout conditions that the winners of its upcoming 4G spectrum auctions must adhere to.
Romanian operators Romtelecom and Cosmote have signed a seven-year managed services agreement with Ericsson.
Zimbabwean operator Telecel has commenced laying its own optical fibre cable to provide more high capacity data provisioning for the network nationwide.
China Mobile’s subsidiary CMRI (China Mobile Research Institute) is collaborating with Agilent Technologies for the development of 5G wireless communication systems.
Filipino operator Globe Telecom is rolling out fuel cell systems that can provide back-up power solution in cell sites identified as most critical to ensure delivery of telecommunication services during crisis situations – particularly natural calamities.
Zain Saudi Arabia is upgrading and expanding its networks with agreements worth SAR (US $1.2 billion), as part of its Reload project.
The mobile payments company Fortumo and mobile operator Telenor Pakistan are launching direct carrier billing in Pakistan.
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