Helios Towers, which last year acquired the passive infrastructure assets of Senegal’s number two mobile player Free Senegal for $188.2 million, has announced a major investment in the country.

Polish mobile operator P4, trading under the Play brand, will be conducting 4G and 5G trials in Warsaw with Samsung.

UPC Broadband Slovakia has expanded the coverage of its gigabit broadband service to a further ten Slovak towns and villages.

Worldwide semiconductor revenue grew 10.8% in the year to USD 464 billion in 2020, despite the impact of COVID-19 on the global economy, according to the Semiconductor Applications Forecaster (SAF) from International Data Corporation (IDC).

African multinational mobile telecommunications company MTN Group said that its Nigerian unit MTN Nigeria (MTNN) Communications has completed the issuance of an N110 billion (USD 263 million) fixed-rate bond due in 2028 under an N200 billion bond programme.

Telecoms services are being affected – directly or indirectly – by authorities in Ghana and Uganda looking for ways to raise revenue.

Nigerian regulator the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and satcoms provider Nigerian Communications Satellite (NigComSat) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the use of C-band spectrum to boost 5G services in Nigeria.

Fugro, a geodata specialist, says it has completed the first phase of its marine site characterisation project for Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) to support the trans-Pacific Bifrost Cable System.

Benin has begun tendering for a new mobile network operator, with foreign firms invited to participate on the grounds that they already operate a telecoms network.

Colombian operator WOM has implemented Whale Cloud’s full-stack BSS suite to speed up its digital transformation and improve customer experience.

Peru’s Ministry of Transport and Communications (Ministerio de Transportes y Comunicaciones or MTC) has modified its National Frequency Attribution Plan enabling unlicensed access to the 6 GHz band (1,200 MHz) in Peru.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia considered the petition of Russian telecom operators and preliminarily approved a cooperation agreement for the construction and launch of fifth-generation 5G cellular networks.

Beecell, mobile value-added services and solutions provider specialising in mobile content and interactive services, announced the launch of digital services for the "Hekaya" program in Jordan.

Telkom Kenya has partnered with Standard Chartered Bank for a partnership dubbed as 'Omoka Vinoma' that will see Telkom prepaid subscribers get access to 100% cashback on Standard Chartered current account transactions.

According to Nigerian press reports, Nigerians now have another new deadline by which to link their National Identification Numbers (NINs) to their SIM cards.

Scala Data Centres, a Brazil-based hyper-scalable data centre platform, has announced an agreement to acquire data centre and colocation operations in Campinas in the southeast of Brazil from Algar Tech, a company that offers business process solutions.

WhatsApp money transfer is back on track in Brazil. The Facebook-owned messaging service relaunched its person-to-person money transfer services in Brazil early this week.

India's Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has allowed the three private telcos, Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio Infocomm, and Vi (formerly Vodafone Idea) as well as state-run telco Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) to start 5G trials in the country. But none of them will be using the technologies of Chinese entities.

Cayman Islands ISP Logic Communications has launched a new fixed-wireless home broadband service in eastern districts of Grand Cayman not currently covered by its fibre-optic network.

Indonesian digital telco Indosat Ooredoo has deployed Ericsson's Operations Engine (EOE) framework, incorporating artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to monitor and tune network parameters to upgrade its 4G radio network.

Telefonica Empresas, the B2B brand of the leading Spanish operator, has been awarded the contract for the final stretch of Chile’s National Fibre Optic (FON) initiative.

Operator MTN Rwanda has received approval from the country's Central Bank to set up a fintech subsidiary, Mobile Money Rwanda Ltd.

Despite the customer losses reported here earlier today, MTN Nigeria is still investing in the future, notably with the recent introduction of Remita, a leading Nigerian electronic payment platform.

Specialist global asset manager Macquarie Asset Management has agreed the sale of Czech telecommunications company České Radiokomunikace to Cordiant Digital Infrastructure.

Citing a large demand for capacity, ODATA, already one of the leading data centre providers in Latin America, has announced plans to speed up the expansion of its data centre rollout in the region where it has been active since it began operations in 2015.

Fiji has a relatively sophisticated communications infrastructure with the highest mobile and internet penetration in the Pacific Islands. It is the leading market to watch in terms of both LTE and 5G development in this region.

For many years, GSM was the primary mobile technology for Vanuatu’s 300,000 people.

The Philippine Bank of Communications (PBCOM) has gone live with Temenos’ next-generation core banking Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to offer a digital-first service in the Philippines.

Nokia has agreed a deal to supply 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) equipment to Ooredoo Kuwait for the operator’s customer premises.

Samoa was one of the first Pacific Island countries to establish a regulatory infrastructure and to liberalise its telecom market.

The South Pacific region has become a hub for submarine cable system developments in recent years, with further networks scheduled to come online later in 2021 and into 2022.