Cable & Wireless Communications has unveiled Project Marlin, a $250 million investment programme covering its networks across the Caribbean and Central America.

Indian operator Reliance Jio Infocomm is aiming to extend broadband services to 900 cities and towns across the country using optical fibre (FTTx).

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%.

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).

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.

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.

Tech Mahindra is entering the Mexican market as part of its strategy to expand into the Americas region.

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.

Chilean operator Entel has pledged $2.8 billion worth of investment into 3G and 4G networks across the next three years.

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.