Mobile operator billing for in-app purchases is now available to all 1.15 billion mobile phone subscribers in China...

The grey market for cellphones will contract for the second consecutive year in 2013, with worldwide shipments dropping by 12% as both makers and buyers of these handsets turn to branded products...

Pakistan Telecommunications, a leading operator in Pakistan affiliated with Etisalat, has expressed an interest in a merger with Warid Telecom.

Telefonica Moviles and Americatel Peru have won their bids for 4G spectrum licences in Peru, in auctions that raised US$257 million for the Latin American country’s government.

Kuwaiti operator Zain has blamed a fall in H1 profits on the devalued Sudanese currency. The falling value of the Sudanese pound was reportedly responsible for an $80 million drop in the operator’s net profit for the first half of 2013.

The first triple-play service offering in Angola is being launched by TVCABO...

Brazil’s largest operator, the Telefonica subsidiary Vivo, has selected Ceragon as its wireless backhaul partner for the next phase of its nationwide LTE network...

A new deal in India will facilitate mobile payments services for customers of the country’s largest private sector bank...

Indonesian enterprise service provider Lintasarta has selected Adtran’s broadband platform for a fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) service rollout which will reach most of the businesses in the country.

A significant infrastructure deal has been agreed in Tanzania between the national subsidiaries of independent telecom towers company Helios Towers Africa and operator Vodacom...

Etisalat is emerging as the forerunner in the race to acquire Vivendi’s stake in Maroc Telecom, with the French group confirming that the two parties have begun “exclusive negotiations”.

Tier one mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) Sisteer has launched a new MVNO named Buzz Me on Malaysia’s U Mobile network...

Chinese number two China Unicom has confirmed a partnership to promote an OTT messaging app...

T-Mobile Poland is introducing cloud services across the country using a software package provided by Comarch...

An experimental cellular network has been successfully deployed in Southern Zambia by Range Networks...

A leading operator in Iraq is preparing to launch high-speed mobile broadband via a network expansion which will also improve coverage and call quality...

The Nigerian government has revived its attempt to divest itself of Nitel, the state operator which once monopolised the Nigerian mobile market.

Telefonica is expanding a global contract for DSL network management that covers more than eight million customer lines globally.

The Indian Department of Telecommunications (DoT) may prevent operators from sharing spectrum due to concerns that proceeds from the country’s upcoming spectrum auctions will fall short of targets.

The government of China is reportedly fast-tracking the 4G spectrum licensing process to make sure that it is complete by the end of the year...

Brazilian number four Oi has raised $1.1 billion following the sale of various assets...

The Philippines’ market leader PLDT has deployed solutions from network specialist Ciena across its global network footprint...

The two operators that won telecom licences in Myanmar have unveiled their pricing plans and deployment goals for the near-term future...

Virgin Mobile has steadily been establishing its footprint in the Middle East, with its most recent success an acquisition – as part of a consortium – of an international voice telephony licence in Oman....

The Russian Ministry of Communications and Mass Media has made an official proposal to revoke the 4G licences acquired by privately-owned mobile operators and create a state-owned LTE network...

Gilat Satcom has revealed a raft of new fibre routes in coastal and landlocked Africa...

The market for enterprise M2M solutions is growing, supported by rapid global adoption of mobile broadband needed for wireless M2M applications...