In a Landmark partnership expected to benefit over 500 million mobile customers across three fast developing regions, SingTel Group and Samsung have unveiled a suite of joint initiatives to bring improved mobile data experiences to customers.

Tigo is extending financial inclusion in Tanzania by partnering with 17 major banks. The new service will enable Tigo Pesa customers to send and receive funds to and from any bank account to and from any Tigo Pesa wallet almost anywhere in the country.

Telecom Namibia has launched international MPLS interconnect services for the first time.

Telecom service-layer innovator OpenCloud has been chosen by Vodafone Egypt to provide its Rhino service-layer to enable delivery of new services.

YooMee Africa Group is launching Côte d’Ivoire’s first LTE services. The group has expanded its operations into the West African country after establishing itself as a broadband provider in Cameroon.

Cameroon’s national telecom provider Camtel has renewed its convergent billing agreement with FTS.

Telecom Egypt has been granted permission by the Egyptian government to obtain a unified licence for branded mobile services, which will cast doubt over the future of its partnership with Vodafone Egypt.

Vodafone India’s chief executive Marten Pieters has expressed his belief that the market is heading for widespread consolidation as operators are not turning a profit.

Aircel India has deployed the NetVertex PCRF from Elitecore Technologies its flexible & carrier grade architecture to enable greater revenue creation and enhance scalability.

Mexican regulator IFT has unveiled the new rules that it will impose on America Movil in an attempt to undermine the operator’s dominance, thereby improving competition in the market.

Intelligent transport networks provider Infinera has partnered with pan-African provider Internet Solutions to deploy the former’s DTN-X platform across the company’s South African long distance network.

Safaricom’s CEO Bob Collymore has confirmed that the operator is no longer interested in the proposed deal with Airtel to acquire the assets of Kenyan rival Yu.

Indian mobile operator Videocon Telecom is aiming to launch 4G/LTE services in three major cities before the end of the 2014-15 fiscal year.

Intelsat and Vodacom are partnering to bring a managed broadband service to sub-Saharan Africa aimed at the small office/home office (SOHO) and small/medium enterprise (SME) users.

Filipino operators Digitel and Smart – both part of market leader PLDT – have signed a direct agreement with electronic payment service iSend to allow their customers to receive top-ups from iSend subscribers worldwide.

Thuraya and Bharti Airtel have announced an agreement to provide Airtel Africa customers with mobile satellite products and services across 17 countries in Africa.

To meet the needs of a data-hungry new generation of users in densely populated areas, dtac TriNet, a subsidiary of Thailand's second-largest mobile operator dtac, has assigned Ericsson to deploy a 4G/LTE network.

The European Commission has stated that it will drop its “anti-dumping” investigation into Chinese telecom equipment imports.

Telekom Malaysia (TM) has agreed to acquire a 57% stake in Malaysia's largest WiMAX provider, Packet One Networks (P1).

Brazilians will soon be able to use their smartphones to carry out contactless payment transactions when shopping following an initiative by Claro, Giesecke & Devrient, and Brazilian bank Bradesco.

Orange is introducing a new mobile healthcare service in Cameroon with the aim of extending it to other sub-Saharan African countries on a common Orange Healthcare platform.

India’s largest energy exploration company has commissioned a new high capacity wireless network to be built by Ceragon Networks.

Infrastructure provider Internexa is using a 100Gbps transponder delivered by NEC to provide optical transmission throughout Colombia.

India saw a massive leap in 3G data traffic during 2013, according to NSN’s annual report on mobile broadband in the country.

FiberHome Technologies Group has selected Lantiq’s LTE gateway to provide high performance, cost effective fixed LTE broadband services to the China market.