Having successfully closed a deal to acquire a majority stake in Maroc Telecom, Etisalat is now bidding for the remaining publicly-traded shares in the Moroccan operator.
Huawei and ZTE have emerged as the major recipients of China Mobile’s second round of 4G contracts, with Huawei winning 31% of the deals while ZTE took 34%.
Algeria’s state-owned operator Algérie Télécom has deployed North Africa’s first commercial LTE network in partnership with Nokia.
Indian telecom service provider MTS India (Sistema Shyam TeleServices) is providing free Wi-Fi services to Rapid Metro users in Gurgaon, Delhi NCR, India.
Lao Telecommunications Company (LaoTel), the incumbent telecommunications service provider in Laos, has deployed the MaxBill billing solution from LogNet Systems.
Zain Kuwait is boosting the capacity of its LTE, 3G and 2G networks via a new agreement with NEC and solutions integrator METCO (Middle East Telecommunications Company).
Vodacom will acquire a 100% stake in South African operator Neotel for ZAR 7 billion (around $398m).
Orange has sold the majority holding in its Ugandan unit to Africell. The operator is offloading a number of its international assets as part of a streamlining review.
Reliance Jio Infocomm and infrastructure firm Tower Vision have signed a tower sharing agreement for the operator’s 4G network.
Comarch has finished implementing Field Intervention Management solutions for Orange Polska, allowing the telecom operator to reduce the costs of network operations and improve the quality of tasks performed by technical staff.
Ooredoo Maldives has deployed a new VAS consolidation project provided by Jinny Software.
Leading Russian operator MTS has completed the first Voice over LTE (VoLTE) call on a telco cloud infrastructure using Nokia’s technology.
Increasing awareness of the advantages of electronic payments is crucial to driving their adoption in the Middle East region, according to numerous authorities in the field.
South African number two MTN is reportedly looking to increase the size of its international footprint via acquisitions outside of Africa and the Middle East regions, where it currently operates in 21 countries.
SkyVision is launching its fibre and wireless based services SkyFibre in Guinea.
As part of a drive to foster competition in the market, mobile operators in China will be able to set tariffs independently.
Bharti Airtel is choosing to double down on its African investment rather than entering new markets, with chairman Sunil Mittal pledging a yearly investment of $1 billion into operations across the region in the “next few years.”
Tech Mahindra is entering the Mexican market as part of its strategy to expand into the Americas region.
Ooredoo and the Leo Messi Foundation have announced a series of new initiatives that will expand their ongoing mobile health clinic programme in Indonesia to several other countries around the world.
Cable & Wireless Panama (CWP) has launched MovilCash, Panama’s first mobile money service.
Etisalat’s acquisition of Vivendi’s 53% stake in Maroc Telecom should be complete by May 14, the UAE operator has stated.
Etisalat has confirmed that it will sell its operations in West Africa to Maroc Telecom.
Vodacom Tanzania has ordered an energy centre from Flexenclosure to power its main switching centre in the capital Dar es Salaam, as replacement for the energy centre that was damaged in a fire in August.
Tata Communications and Orange International Carriers have announced an agreement to interconnect their respective IPX (IP-Exchange) communities for voice over IPX and Signalling Sigtran, which allows IP networks to inter-work with the public switched telephone network.
Satellite provider Speedcast has announced that it will expand its Tier 1 IP backbone into Vanuatu.
Two leading Czech operators have agreed to share radio access equipment for nationwide LTE coverage.
Nokia registered a 30% drop in sales of mobile devices in the first quarter of 2014, with the group’s revenue down €0.5 billion compared to last year’s €3.1 billion.
The three market leading operators in China have separately confirmed that they are discussing the formation of a joint “base station company” that would allow them all to share tower infrastructure.
Chilean operator Entel has pledged $2.8 billion worth of investment into 3G and 4G networks across the next three years.
The growth of LTE in Africa has coincided with a boom in Mobile communications.
Pakistan’s 3G and 4G spectrum auctions have concluded successfully, raising over $1.1 billion.
Etisalat has reached a financing agreement with several banks which will allow it to acquire a majority stake in Maroc Telecom.
Three of India’s largest operators have forged a 3G roaming agreement to expand their coverage across more of the country’s telecom circles.
Tigo Tanzania has announced a partnership with Facebook which includes free trial access to Facebook services in English plus a new Kiswahili version through their mobile handsets.
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