Enterprise Ecosystems

A group that gives African farmers improved access to localised weather data has enjoyed a major boost to its efforts to supply value-added weather intelligence services.

Argentinean service provider Telecentro is deploying Netcracker’s Digital OSS to advance its operations automation and deliver new use cases across its operations.

There's been yet another piece of generative AI news today. G42, a UAE-based technology holding group, has announced a partnership with OpenAI, the AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT, to deliver cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to the UAE and regional markets.

At Ultra-Broadband Forum 2023 (UBBF 2023), which kicked off on 12^th October in Dubai, the 10 Gbps City Initiative was launched jointly by the UAE Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA), Omdia, etisalat by e&, MTN South Africa, Huawei, and others.

Business licencing authority Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone (RAKEZ) and Amazon UAE have signed an MoU to enable businesses registered within the RAKEZ hub to sell their products to millions of customers across the UAE on Amazon.ae.

Service provider du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), and technology giant Nokia have signed a frame agreement aimed at heralding what they call a new era of 5G-driven advanced technology possibilities for UAE enterprises.

Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (du) has announced that it is joining forces with services platform GoDaddy.

Bahrain’s Minister of Industry and Commerce, Abdullah bin Adel Fakhro, has announced the launch of iFactories, described as a national initiative to support the movement of the country’s industrial sector towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution (sometimes called Industry 4.0).

Operator Beeline Kazakhstan has launched a software company, QazCode, to boost the development of new digital products and services. This was announced by parent company, global digital operator Veon.

iot squared and OQ Technology have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will help expand satellite IoT connectivity in Saudi Arabia.

Zoom Video Communications (ZVC) India, a division of video-first unified communications platform provider Zoom, has announced that it has received three licenses from the Indian Department of Telecommunications (DoT): a unified license with pan-India access, a national long-distance licence, and an international long-distance licence.

Whale Cloud has signed a three-year BSS contract with Malaysia’s Sarawak Digital Economy Corporation (SDEC), a government-owned company entrusted to lead the implementation of Sarawak's Digital Economy initiatives.

Botswana's Debswana Diamond Company Limited and Huawei have jointly announced at MWC 2023 the world's first 5G-oriented smart diamond mine project.

Leading Philippine fibre internet provider Converge ICT Solutions and South Korean service provider KT Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that aims to extend digital tools and innovations to enterprises in the Philippines, and to explore new digital transformation solutions for the evolving needs of ICT customers. The MoU signing was held at the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress.

India’s STL (Sterlite Technologies Limited) is divesting its support, monetisation, networking, and analytics solutions business to Skyvera.

State-owned Indian operator BSNL has apparently partnered Echelon Edge, a global information technology and system integration company. The aim? To set up private 5G networks.

Multinational information technology services and consulting company Cognizant has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Garuda Aerospace, an Indian drone start-up, to power its drones with advanced digital tools.

Operator Telekom Networks Malawi (TNM) has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Agricultural Commodity Exchange for Africa (ACE) and Welthungerhilfe to enhance food security through application of technology in the agriculture sector.

MegaFon Tajikistan (TT Mobile CJSC) has signed an exclusive partnership with Vox Solutions to help identify Application to Person (A2P) voice (Flash Call) traffic and combat fraudulent routing and illicit bypass attempts.

Hungary’s Magyar Telekom - a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom - has selected Mavenir to deploy its cloud-native containerised Converged Packet Core.

Pan-African payments provider Cellulant is back in the news again, this time thanks to  a financial services partnership with micro, small and medium-enterprise (MSME)-focused B2B digital platform Solv Kenya.

Montenegrin operator One Crna Gora – formerly Telenor Montenegro, and now part of Hungary’s 4iG – is implementing Elisa Polystar’s KALIX and OSIX service assurance solutions.

Libya’s state-owned internet service provider LTT (Libya Telecom & Technology) has tapped P.I. Works to deploy its EXA automation solution across the ISP’s national radio access networks (RANs).

Venezuela’s Digitel has upgraded its network capabilities using Optiva’s BSS platform.

Vodacom Business Africa, an enterprise-focused ICT subsidiary of the Vodacom Group has said that, having successfully deployed its software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) solution to several businesses in South Africa, it is now making the offering accessible to clients in all 47 operating countries across its African footprint.

ZTE and AIS have jointly launched Thailand’s first 5G innovation hub.

IBM has partnered with Bharti Airtel to help deploy the operator’s edge computing platform in India, which will include 120 network data centres across 20 cities.

Indian conglomerate Adani Group confirmed it will participate in India’s highly anticipated 5G auction, as part of plans to launch private network solutions with no intentions to launch consumer services.

Fintech platform Nomanini has announced the launch of a new supply chain finance app called StockNow that connects fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs) and financial service providers in order to serve Africa’s informal retailers at scale.

This week has seen the launch of a government-supported innovation to attract investors to Cameroon – in the form of SME-centric apps.

Zain Group’s digital and ICT solutions unit ZainTech has partnered with LigaData to deliver cutting-edge, data-driven digital services to enterprise and government customers across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).