It’s been a busy weekend for social media controversies in Kenya, as both Facebook and the government have scrambled to deal with bad news regarding alleged online hate speech.
Indonesia’s new licensing law faced an unexpected issue on Saturday after the Indonesian communication ministry blocked PayPal due to its failure to meet a deadline under new licensing rules.
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) reported a decline in profit despite booking growth in total revenue, mobile subscribers and ARPU in its second quarter results.
The Indian government has offered an upbeat initial assessment of the 5G spectrum auction that finally finished on 1 August, saying that the 71% of spectrum sold – 51.236GHz out of 72.098GHz – is good enough to cover the entire country with 5G within two or three years.
Fintech firm VYZYO has announced that its subsidiary TDFP (Tunisian Digital Finance for People) has signed a partnership agreement with local Al Baraka Bank to launch and operate a new mobile wallet service.
At Huawei’s Win-Win Innovation Week held recently, Chen Xuejun from Huawei's Carrier IT Marketing & Solution Sales Department delivered a keynote speech demonstrating how Huawei Cloud helps carriers accelerate cloud transformation to drive new growth.
Huawei has deployed over 100 5G-ready base stations for MTN Nigeria as the operator gears up to launch a commercial 5G offering from 24th August.
Vodafone Group has reportedly agreed to sell off a majority stake in its Ghana unit to rival Telecel Group, a move to refocus on key markets, Bloomberg reported.
Philippines-based operator group PLDT announced a cash injection of $100 million to connect its network to two submarine cable systems, which will boost international data capacity to cater to large corporations, Manila Standard reported.
ZTE announced that its CEO Xu Ziyang was awarded the Outstanding Contribution to the Asia Mobile Industry Award at the GSMA’s Asia Mobile Awards (The AMOs) 2022 in Hong Kong on July 29th.
Day four of the Indian 5G spectrum auction is drawing to a close, and we hope to have a clearer idea of the winners and losers by early next week. But in the meantime 5G testing is continuing, with Vodafone Idea (aka Vi) now involved in a pilot project run by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
SpaceX will launch its new low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite service under its Starlink constellation in the Philippines in December, a move to deliver connectivity to underserved communities in the archipelago nation.
Morocco’s National Agency of Telecommunications Regulation (ANRT / Agence Nationale de Reglementation de Telecom) has issued Maroc Telecom Group a cumulative fine of MAD2.45 billion (US$238 million).
Nokia is deploying its XGS Passive Optical Network (XGS-PON) solution for Cambodian internet service provider SINET as demand for high speed enterprise connectivity escalates in the market.
Nokia signed a five-year deal to supply RAN gear to satellite company AST SpaceMobile, as the latter prepares to launch its next satellite to test its new 4G/5G connectivity services with operators globally.
Ooredoo Group reported strong results with net profit surging on the back of solid performance in Myanmar, but the company is not ruling out a sale of its unit there.
Botswana’s BoFiNet has selected Ribbon Communications to upgrade and enhance its national backbone network.
While we await the final results of the 5G auctions, Indian news outlets are reporting that the government has finally approved the merger of state-owned companies Bharat Broadband Network Limited (BBNL) and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL). The government will also pump more money into BSNL.
MTN Sudan has signed a 10-year network as a service (NaaS) contract with NuRAN Wireless, a supplier of mobile and broadband wireless infrastructure solutions, for the deployment of rural mobile infrastructure in Sudan.
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) revealed Orange Group is planning to carve out a piece of the Nigerian market for itself despite the country already having four operators, building on the growth it gained in other African units.
Telefonica Brazil did not rule out acquisitions to bolster its Vivo brand’s internet offering, after being linked to buying rival ISPs, despite plunging year-on-year income.
The third part of Estonia’s 3.5GHz 5G auctions appears to be over, but with much less excitement than the other two; operator Tele2 had no opposition to its bid on the first or second day.
Vodacom expanded its connectivity investment plan by pledging to pump ZAR600 million (US$35.5m) into the province of Mpumalanga this financial year.
A major debt finance deal promises to enable open access fibre provider MetroFibre Networx to bring more fibre connectivity to underserved markets in South Africa.
Google parent company Alphabet finally complied with a licensing law in Indonesia which allows the government to censor content and demand citizen data, to enable it to continue operating in the country.
Niger’s Zamani Telecom has completed a wide-ranging upgrade of its 4G TD-LTE network.
Digital payment solutions provider Network International has announced it will bring WhatsApp for Business banking services to financial institutions across Africa through a collaboration with global cloud communication service provider Infobip.
Operator Zain South Sudan has gone live with a new digital service provisioning system (DSPS) supplied by Tecnotree, which describes itself as a global provider of digital transformation solutions for communication service providers (CSPs) and digital service providers (DSPs).
The South African Communications Workers Union (CWU) moved to urge authorities to block MTN’s acquisition of Telkom, claiming the buyout will lead to lower competition and mass redundancies.
Underlining the dominance of South Africa in general, and Johannesburg in particular, in the African data centre market, US-headquartered Vantage Data Centres, described as a leading global provider of hyperscale data centre campuses, has announced the delivery of the first facility on its Johannesburg campus.
MEASAT-3d, described by Malaysian operator MEASAT as its latest and most advanced satellite, has now entered commercial service, after its handover by Airbus Defence and Space.
Safaricom chief executive officer Michael Joseph calmed mounting interest in the operator spinning off its successful mobile money division M-Pesa into a seperate company.
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has sought views on the need for overhauling laws governing the telecommunications sector.
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