French vendor Alcatel-Lucent has been selected by two of China’s largest operators to supply technologies for their LTE deployments.

In a bid to improve energy and telecommunications access for Ugandans who lack reliable electricity, MTN Uganda and Fenix International have developed an ultra-affordable Pay As You Go energy solution designed to bring safe lighting, phone charging and more to those living off-grid across the country.

BaikalWestCom, the largest mobile network operator in East Siberia, has optimised its network with Geo-located Customer Experience Analytics provided by Actix.

TIM Brasil has deployed 100G optical networking equipment supplied by Xtera Communication on a long-haul transmission infrastructure in north east Brazil.

Etisalat’s Benin subsidiary Moov has launched the Middle Eastern operator’s mobile-based commerce service Flous, making it the eleventh market to do so.

Caribbean operator Columbus International has implemented a new CRM and billing solution from Cerillion in El Salvador.

Mobile anti-fraud and revenue protection specialist Revector has been selected by Glo Mobile Ghana to lead a campaign to detect and eliminate SIM Box fraud on its network.

 Indian market leader Bharti Airtel has signed a major infrastructure sharing agreement with Reliance Jio Infocomm.

Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) has become the first operator to launch Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile data services in the Cayman Islands.

Indonesian market leader Telkomsel has partnered with connected devices platform Jasper Wireless to deliver machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity to enterprises.

BPI Globe BanKO, the Philippines’ first mobile-based, microfinance-focused bank, has partnered with the global humanitarian agency Mercy Corps to provide mobile cash transfers to those most impacted by Typhoon Haiyan. 

South African operator BitCo has selected network specialist Ciena to to upgrade its network to provide high-performance, cost-effective and scalable carrier-class Ethernet managed bandwidth services for enterprise and wholesale mobile backhaul connectivity. 

China Mobile is currently negotiating a deal with Apple for the distribution of iPhones in China.

Myriad Group has announced an agreement with Twitter which certifies Myriad's "Twitter for USSD" service as an approved Twitter experience.

The Brazilian trustbuster Cade has taken aim at what it perceives as Telefonica’s market dominance, ruling that the Spanish operator must divest its holding in Telecom Italia’s TIM Brasil or take on a new partner for its own subsidiary Vivo .

Turkcell has accused South African operator MTN of costing it business in Iran via “corruption and bribery”.

Intelsat has provided an update on its satellite capacity being used in a number of restoration initiatives in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan.

Türk Telekom has selected HP to transform its service portfolio to include competitive cloud-based IT services for its public and private customers.

Enterprise business assurance provider WeDo Technologies has announced that the Afghan subsidiary of Etisalat is using its RAID product as a single, integrated platform for revenue assurance and fraud management (RA&FM).

NEC, NTT Communications and Sumitomo have completed a major mobile and fixed telecommunications upgrade in Myanmar.

Following a following a competitive RFP, Zain Saudi Arabia (KSA) has deployed several solutions from optimisation software and solutions provider Aircom in order to improve its network planning.

Vodafone has entered into a Partner Market agreement with Latin American operator Datora Telecom to rebrand Datora’s mobile arm as Vodafone Brasil.

Myriad Group has announced that its Myriad Updates service, including Facebook for USSD, has recently been launched in association with the Orange Group in Cameroon, Congo & Senegal, and Movistar in Costa Rica & El Salvador.

Telecom Italia has strongly denied recent reports that it would sell its Brazilian subsidiary in order to reduce its debt.

Swedish vendor Ericsson will be investigated by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) following a complaint from handset manufacturer Micromax.

A new report from BroadGroup suggests that the CEE data centre market is experiencing important changes and there is potential for significant growth in the region – especially as the use of outsourcing and cloud services grows.

Orange has confirmed that it will sell its Dominican operation to Luxembourgian cable and telecoms private equity firm Altice.

Samoan service provider BlueSky is implementing a signalling gateway from Squire Technologies to enable enhanced interoperability, interconnection and offer an extended range of roaming possibilities to its customers.