Telefonica Moviles Mexico (Movistar) is enabling customers in several new regions of the market to access 4G services for the first time.

It’s not long since leading Madagascan operator Telma announced the launch of its 5G network. Now the network is on hold.

Orange has deployed spectrum capacity with Infinera’s submarine solution on its MainOne submarine cable, a new network built to provide large-scale international capacity to support the development of a digital ecosystem in West Africa.

According to the New Zealand press a new internet cable connecting New Zealand, Chile and Australia may be on the way, but plans to include China seem to have been abandoned.

Iran’s Deputy Minister of Information and Communication Technology has claimed that the country has completed successful trials of 5G technology.

There’s further bad news for Chinese technology companies in India as more apps are banned, access to government contracts is limited and Chinese smartphone brands experience a decline.

According to Reuters, the Ugandan government has decided that the sale of a 20 percent equity stake in MTN Uganda will be restricted to East Africa.

Telekom Slovenije is now delivering Slovenia’s first commercial 5G services via its 2600MHz spectrum.

Millicom, a leading provider of cable and mobile services in Latin America, has selected virtualized cable access and video delivery solution company Harmonic as its strategic partner to build what is described as a high-speed broadband infrastructure of the future.

Pan-African telecommunications and mobile money services company Airtel Africa has announced a deal with African remittance organisation Mukuru.

Liberian incumbent operator Libtelco is looking to push its broadband offering outwards from the country’s capital of Monrovia.

Orange has partnered with bancassurance leader NSIA to launch Orange Bank Africa in Abidjan and Côte d’Ivoire.

Leaders of the four nations behind the Manatua One Polynesia Cable Project have announced that the cable was accepted last week from turnkey supplier SubCom.

Sri Lanka’s Dialog Axiata is allowing its subscribers with 5G-capable devices to register on its trial 5G network as a way of understanding the benefits of the technology.

Turkcell is deploying Odine's end-to-end wholesale voice management platform to drive business automation and routing intelligence for its wholesale voice interconnect network.

As many as 250 million children across Africa are currently unable to access primary and secondary schools as a result of COVID-19-related closures.

According to reports in a number of Latin American press outlets, Colombia is making another attempt to sell its stake in Movistar, the local subsidiary of Telefónica.

The latest in a series of reminders from Indian operators has been delivered to the country’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) over the absence – so far – of the 26 GHz band in the long-awaited 5G spectrum auction process.

Angola’s new licensee Africell has set a goal of launching commercial services by mid-2021.

Kacific has signed a five-year agreement with the Government of Tuvalu to provide the Pacific Island nation with high-speed broadband internet connectivity via satellite.

Tata Communications has procured a local licence to provide telecoms services in Saudi Arabia.

5G trials are on the way to Algeria and Mexico, according to recent reports, though the uses of 5G being tested will be very different.

A 4G-enabling analogue TV switch-off is almost complete in Cape Verde.

For regular readers who are wondering what happened to the Algar bid for the mobile division of troubled Brazilian telecommunications business Oi, it seems that it may still be on.

Orange Guinea Sonatel is implementing Alepo’s authentication authorisation and accounting (AAA) platform to digitise its FTTH offering.

The City Council of the Brazilian city of Londrina is again looking to sell its stake in the regional operator Sercomtel after its previous attempt failed.

Bharti Airtel has renewed its agreement with Ericsson to provide pan-India managed network operations.

Despite some dramatic statements by Vodafone Idea to the Indian Supreme Court, Monday’s long-awaited hearing on AGR dues payment seems to have ended fairly tamely with no payment timeline being agreed.

Vodafone Idea made a lot of disgruntled noises following a regulatory block on its RedX premium tariff plan. It seems the Indian operator was not alone in being unhappy with the order from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), as it has now been stayed.

MTS Belarus has nearly doubled data usage on its network after a substantial infrastructure deployment in the first half of this year.