South Africa's MultiChoice Group, usually best-known for video entertainment provision, has announced a joint venture, along with fintech company Rapyd and investor General Catalyst, aimed at developing an integrated payment platform for Africa. The joint venture will operate as a new company, called Moment.
The Costa Rican government granted Elon Musk’s satellite connectivity company Starlink an operations licence after a six-month wait, expanding the provider’s footprint in Latin America.
Russia’s MegaFon has issued a legal challenge against sanctions placed upon it by the European Union.
Moro Hub, a subsidiary of Digital DEWA, the digital arm of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has signed a collaboration with Red Hat, a major provider of enterprise open source solutions.
The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (CRAN) has informed operators that they will not be required to collect biometric data from users wishing to register SIM cards.
It’s already been a busy week for Liquid Dataport, with an African fibre route launch and a major satcoms-related memorandum of understanding (MoU) announced in the past few days.
Beleaguered Indian operator Vodafone Idea has logged its first annual revenue increase since it was created in 2018 through the merger of Vodafone India and Idea Cellular.
Smartphone shipments in Thailand and the Philippines continue to slide as South East Asian economies continue to grapple with macroeconomic pressure.
Azerbaijani operator Azercell expanded its 4G network to reach the city of Nakhchivan as part of its nationwide network modernisation project to blanket the Nakhchivan municipality with 4G by the end of the year.
Satellite technology company Avanti Communications says it has completed the second phase of its project to build a new HYLAS 4 satellite gateway station and set it up in Dakar, Senegal.
Operator group Veon has announced that it is in the final stages of closing the sale of its Russian operations.
CamTel, MTN, Orange and Viettel were fined a total of XAF6 billion (US$9.8 million) for poor quality of service in Cameroon, where subscribers staged protests in their demand for improved services.
Ecuador’s telecommunications ministry revealed US$900 million was invested into the sector in 2022, which is expected to be topped this year as progressive reforms continue to reshape the industry.
The Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) has opened applications for its upcoming multi-band auction of 5G spectrum.
All three bidders in Hungary’s 32GHz spectrum auction have procured licences.
STC Group-owned company center3 and Alcatel Submarine Networks are planning to connect Saudi Arabia with Europe by building the EMC West subsea and terrestrial data cables.
Poland’s government is reportedly planning to commence the process of licensing 3.5GHz spectrum within weeks.
Gitpan (General Internacional Telecom Panama) remained the only interested party at the close of the prequalification round of Panama’s second tender for the licence vacated by Digicel Panama.
The Delhi High Court has rejected Vodafone Idea (Vi)’s attempt to challenge a fine issued by the regulator TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) in late 2016.
Leading Kenyan operator Safaricom is reportedly unsure that Kenyan plans to assemble a $40 smartphone in-country can work. The issue, it argues, is taxes.
Less than a year after we reported that Brazilian data centre firm Odata had opened its first Mexican data centre to add to its operations in Brazil, Colombia and Chile, it has been sold.
It’s a bold claim, even for a pan-Africa service provider, but MTN this week launched what it called SME Day, with the stated aim of empowering over 40 million small businesses across the African continent.
Starlink continues to boost its presence in Latin America, launching connectivity in Panama and confirming that it has received an operating licence in Guatemala.
Regulator the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has opened the lower part of the 6GHz spectrum band for Wi-Fi services. Lower 6GHz is the radio frequency range of 5925–6425 MHz band as allocated in the country’s National Radio Frequency Plan.
The Latin American smartphone market declined by 10% year-on-year in Q1 2023 to 28 million units, a fifth consecutive quarter of decline for the region but a rebound is predicted for H2, according to analyst company Canalys.
Two Caribbean markets are set to make 700MHz spectrum available for the provision of both 4G and 5G services.
Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications (VNPT) will launch 10Gbps fibre with vendor partner Nokia, a move the vendor said is the first deployment of the broadband speeds.
MTN Ghana CEO Selorm Adadevoh said the unit is expected to exceed the US$1 billion infrastructure investment target it set out in 2021 by 2026.
In the recently announced Knight Frank SEA-5 Data Centre Opportunity Index Malaysia was identified as a top destination for data centre investment. As if to support this argument, two major data centre announcements relating to the country have been made in the past week.
Zain has acquired the UAE-based cloud and data analytics firm Adfolks via its enterprise unit ZainTech.
It’s taken a while, to say the least, but Ethiopia now seems ready to invite another operator into the country.
Telekom Networks Malawi (TNM) claims to have launched the country’s first 5G network pilot.
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