Egypt Digital Company for Investment (EDCI), the largest shareholder in Egypt Towers for Technology Services Company, has signed an agreement with IHS Towers to obtain a licence from the National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA) to erect and lease telecom towers.

Argentinian pay-TV and fixed-line operator Supercanal Airlink is revamping its visual identity across the 14 provinces in which it operates, simplifying its name to Super while expanding internet coverage via new infrastructure deployments and boosting the stability of connections.

PEACE Cable International Network Co Limited, the company behind the new subsea cable connecting Asia, Europe and Africa, has announced a deal with leading carrier and cloud-neutral data centre provider iColo.

Bharti Airtel and Ericsson have commenced what they claim as India’s first rural 5G network trial.

Bangladesh’s state operator Teletalk has revealed its goal of launching 5G services before the end of 2021.

Eutelsat Communications is back in the news again after the satellite operator was selected by African digital solutions provider Globacom to bring satellite broadband to underserved regions of Nigeria.

Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Information (MCI, aka KemKominfo) stated that it has completed the refarming of the 2.3GHz band after selling the frequencies at auction in May 2021.

Africa's broadband internet provider Seacom and Netscout Systems have announced an alliance to provide managed DDoS and security services to enterprise customers in Kenya and South Africa, as well as to wholesale customers utilising Seacom's subsea and terrestrial networks.

Qatari multinational telecommunications company Ooredoo has selected Ericsson for deploying its Business Support Systems (BSS) solutions under a five-year frame agreement for several operating companies across the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia.

Intracom Telecom, a global telecommunication systems, and solutions vendor announced a Smart City project in Belgrade, Serbia, focusing on monitoring the city’s air pollution and improving the overall air quality.

Indonesian mobile operator Indosat Ooredoo plans to expand its 4G LTE coverage to a further 645 remote villages across the archipelago by next year.

In what could be the largest IPO in Uganda to date, MTN Uganda has announced its intention to float 20 percent of its shares on the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE).

Two Saudi companies have been given a green light to develop data centres in one of Saudi Arabia’s newest – and possibly smartest – cities.

SICO  Technology, described as Egypt’s first smartphone maker, plans to get into the African electronics market assembling handsets for other companies, according to recent news reports.

Nepal has seen widespread fixed broadband outages resulting from a clash between the state-owned Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) and several of the country’s ISPs.

Guyana’s government has demanded that U-Mobile, which operates as Digicel Guyana, pay overdue fees totalling GYD1 billion (US$4.6 million).

Avanti Communications has announced the launch of a new managed satellite service for rural connectivity branded as Avanti EXTEND.

China Mobile has selected its compatriots Huawei and ZTE as equipment suppliers for a converged 4G/5G core network contract reportedly worth CNY7.5 billion ($1.16 billion).

Airtel Africa plc, the provider of telecommunications and mobile money services, with a presence in 14 countries across Africa, announced the appointment of Olusegun "Segun" Ogunsanya, as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with effect from October 01, 2021.

Canadian satellite communications company Telesat and Nelco, a company of Tata group, are all set to kickstart commercial satellite communications services jointly by 2024 in India.

Smart Communications, the mobile arm of Philippines telecoms giant PLDT Inc., has switched on its 5G Standalone (SA) mobile network in Makati City, powering up one of the first 5G SA networks in the world.

Hungarian ICT group 4iG announced it closed the acquisition of peer IT/network infrastructure solutions provider Invitech after the transaction was cleared by the Competition Office (GVH).

Late last week President Muhammadu Buhari told Nigerians, in an Independence Day broadcast, that after a government team had had "extensive engagements" with Twitter, the ban on Twitter's operations in Nigeria was to be lifted. But there are strings attached.

Satellite broadband is coming to rural and unserved areas in Egypt after the announcement of a new deal involving a major name in networking technologies and services.

NuRAN Wireless, a supplier of mobile and broadband wireless infrastructure solutions, says the first site in Cameroon relating to its network as a service (NAAS) contracts with Orange SA went live last week and, the company adds, has already begun to generate significant traffic.

Zain Saudi Arabia has selected Netcracker’s cloud-based digital BSS and customer engagement solutions for its digital transformation programme.

Chinese vendor ZTE Corporation has signed a cooperation agreement with China Telecom Global (CTG) in Hong Kong.

Irrespective of the second wave of COVID, India’s networking market, which includes Ethernet Switch, Routers, and WLAN segments, witnessed a reasonable 14.1% year-over-year (YoY) growth in terms of vendor revenues during 2Q21 (April – June).

Turkey Wealth Fund (TWF), the sovereign wealth fund (SWF) of the country, is considering a majority takeover of fixed and mobile operator Turk Telekom or Turk Telekomunikasyon (TT), according to a report by Bloomberg.

Driven by the strong growth in the fixed broadband segment, the total fixed communications service revenue in the Philippines is expected to increase at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.0% from US$3.6bn in 2021 to US$4.7bn in 2026.