A flurry of announcements in recent days has offered both good and bad news for the giant Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies, with a number of 5G deals being done, prevented or delayed.
A new ITU report reveals that over half the total global female population is still not using the internet.
Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy, has announced the expansion of its IP backbone reach in the Caucasus region with the opening of a new point of presence (PoP) in Yerevan, Armenia.
Recent reports from the Indian press indicate that some vendors that have sold goods or services to BSNL and MTNL are considering insolvency pleas against the state-run operators after non-payment of dues.
Two Millicom-owned companies are to officially merge. Zanzibar Telecom Public Limited Company (Zantel) has announced the completion of a combination with its sister company MIC Tanzania Public Limited Company (Tigo).
Connectivity provider Angola Cables and internet exchange (IX) operator DE-CIX have partnered to offer what the two companies describe as premium interconnection services to a variety of neutral IXs for operators and data centres across Latin America.
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Six months after receiving their 5G licences, all three major Chinese operators are now offering 5G services across 50 cities in what they claim is the largest deployment worldwide.
It’s been another extraordinary week for Indian telecoms, ending with operator Vodafone Idea having to calm market fears that Vodafone in particular might leave India.
du and Batelco have launched Arc, a joint venture aimed at simplifying intra-regional connectivity in the Middle East.
At ZTE’s recent Wireless User Congress & 5G Summit in Vienna, DT Editor James Barton sat down to a roundtable with Zhang Jianpeng, Senior Vice President and President of Overseas Marketing, to discuss the Chinese vendor’s 5G strategy across various global markets.
South Africa’s MTN has announced that it is not going through with a proposed sale of a 53 per cent stake in Mascom Wireless Botswana. The deal was reported as being worth $300 million to MTN.
Nokia and SENAI-SP (Brazil’s National Service for Industrial Training) are teaming up to implement the vendor’s portfolio of technology and connectivity solutions at SENAI-SP’s lab in São Caetano do Sul.
News that Vodafone Business and América Móvil have announced an IoT partnership, that, they say, makes it easier than ever for customers to connect devices globally, could be a significant boost for IoT deployment.
The race to 5G roll-out continues as next generation technology is tested in Costa Rica, assessed in Estonia and actually launched in Guam.
Reports from the press in Pakistan say that a submarine cable fault disrupted internet services in the country earlier this week.
Technology from live video streaming company LiveU is offering an alternative to traditional satellite, fibre and microwave technology for live coverage of South Africa’s popular horse racing industry.
Ooredoo Tunisia is deploying the Nokia AirGile cloud-native core and services to power its current 2G/3G/4G network in order to prepare for the transition to 5G.
Thailand has seen a very rapid increase in mobile broadband penetration over the past six years driven by strong growth of 4G mobile subscribers, reports Research & Markets.
Poland’s government is cooperating with three of the country’s mobile operators on 5G development in order to speed up the rollout of the technology.
Not surprisingly, in the wake of a recent court ruling against India’s operators, the financial pressures on the sector have continued to make headlines. Now a review of those financial pressures has been mooted.
The World Radiocommunication Conference, the international treaty-making conference governing the global management of scarce radio-frequency spectrum as well as geostationary-satellite and non-geostationary-satellite orbits, is now under way.
The EllaLink Group and Telxius have signed a collaboration agreement for international subsea capacity and terrestrial connectivity in Latin America, including cable landing facilities in Fortaleza, Brazil.
Nokia has signed a contract with leading telecommunications service provider Hutchison 3 Indonesia (3ID) to provide IoT coverage to enterprises in Indonesia.
According to reports in London’s Financial Times and the Economic Times of India Reliance Industries has some interesting plans for its Jio mobile business.
The population of the Solomon Islands, a state consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, can soon look forward to the benefits of cable-led communications, according to the Solomon Islands Submarine Cable Company (SISCC).
Partnerships and plans relating to 5G have recently been announced in Bangladesh and the Philippines.
India’s Supreme Court has ordered the country’s operators to pay the government a total of $13 billion in outstanding airwaves and license fees. This follows a legal dispute going back some 20 years between the government and the operators.
Orange has opened its second Orange Digital Centre in Africa and the Middle East. The new centre is in Dakar Senegal.
Plans for a new cable system, which will directly connect Muscat, Oman, to Perth, Australia, have been announced. It will be called Oman Australia Cable (OAC).
Vodafone Idea is transforming its distributed network data centres to open standards, open interfaces based ‘Universal Cloud’ using solutions from Red Hat.
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) will allow the Azerbaijani mobile operator Bakcell to pursue its bid to acquire Vodafone Ukraine from Russia’s MTS.
The liberalisation of Ethiopia’s telecoms sector could see three operators active in the market by April 2020.
Thai regulator NBTC (National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Communication) has confirmed plans to auction 5G-ready spectrum in four bands in February next year.
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