Industry body the GSMA has warned that a large connectivity usage gap is limiting Ghana’s economic potential.

Connectivity solutions provider iBASIS has acquired Telstra International’s wholesale voice, mobile, and messaging customer contracts in a move to expand its footprint across the Asia-Pacific.

Ericsson said on Monday it has extended its strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Thailand’s Digital Economy Promotion Agency (DEPA) to develop 5G solutions for the country’s industrial sector.

ZTE said on Monday it has formed a strategic partnership with Sacofa – a telecoms infrastructure provider in East Malaysia owned by the Sarawak government – to modernise its fibre infrastructure network.

The London Internet Exchange (LINX) announced on Monday it has signed a co-operative agreement with internet exchange incubator Asteroid to take over its interconnection operations in Kenya.

Odata, a Brazilian provider of data centre services for Latin America, has announced a US$1.02 billion green financing deal focused on sustainable data centre infrastructure investments.

UPDATE: The BBC has reported that Nepal has lifted a social media ban, which sparked protests and led to clashes with police that left at least 19 people dead and injured more than 100 others.

The Ghanaian government has reportedly appointed KPMG to advance plans to merge AT Ghana and Telecel in a bid to stem mounting losses from its acquisition of the former, while building a stronger rival to market leader MTN.

Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) reportedly plans to allocate 100 MHz of free spectrum in the 4800-MHz band to encourage factories to develop private 5G networks.

EXA Infrastructure has announced plans to deploy a new fibre backbone connecting Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary to its network in Germany and Austria, which it claims will be the largest pan-European backbone fibre deployment in Central Europe in the last 25 years.

Can countries balance access to an undoubtedly popular and convenient service with an effective response to predatory lending practices, data abuse, high interest rates, and aggressive debt collection practices, to name only a few? That’s the question about digital lending that regulators in Kenya and Nigeria are trying to answer.

Digital payments giant Visa has announced the launch of Visa Pay, a mobile solution that provides access to digital payments and account-to-account money movement, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Apogeo Space, an Italian SME that says it is developing the first private national constellation of picosatellites for IoT telecommunications, has announced a strategic agreement with Telespazio Brasil to expand its picosatellite IoT services into the Latin American market.

There has been a flurry of announcements from Nigerian operator T2 Mobile in recent weeks. If that name doesn’t seem familiar, that may well be because until August the operator had been known as 9mobile. Here are a few brief updates.

Nigeria’s National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Kaspersky Global, a leading name in cybersecurity, to strengthen Nigeria’s cybersecurity ecosystem. The agreement was formalised last week during IT exhibition and conference GITEX Nigeria 2025 in Lagos.

Vodacom Eastern Cape will invest more than ZAR400 million (US$22 million) in its network this financial year to expand coverage, boost capacity and extend connectivity to rural communities across the province.

Data centre colocation services provider Telehouse Thailand announced on Thursday it has partnered with state-owned telco National Telecom (NT) to link its facility in Bangkok to NT’s international subsea cable network.

Ghana’s Ministry for Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations has reportedly revealed plans to merge telecoms players AT and Telecel in hopes of creating a sustainable competitor to market leader MTN.

Orange has appointed Thierry Millet (pictured) as CEO of Orange Money Group, replacing Aminata Kane.

The Tanzania Telecommunications Corporation (TTCL), which operates and maintains all types of telecommunications networks, including ICT systems and services, within and outside the United Republic of Tanzania, has announced plans to construct more than 1,400 communication towers across the country to strengthen national network coverage and support the digital economy.

In what it calls a decisive turning point in its mission to bring finance and essential services closer to citizens, everywhere, for everyone, KaliSpot, which describes itself as a Senegalese fintech born in the United States, has announced the deployment of its first 1Net smart kiosks in the Senegalese capital, Dakar.

IDB Invest, a multilateral development bank committed to promoting the economic development of its member countries in Latin America and the Caribbean through the private sector, has partnered with technology giant Nokia to launch a US$50 million financing facility to strengthen digital connectivity in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Africa-focused telecoms firm Paratus Group has launched a private 4G/5G network in Namibia, positioning itself to compete with state-owned incumbents MTC and Telecom Namibia.

Pan-Asian data centre operator Digital Edge and Thai energy company B.Grimm Power announced on Thursday that they have broken ground on their first joint data centre in Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).

South African telco Vodacom announced on Wednesday that its virtual wheeling solution is now live, enabling it to purchase renewable energy for its countrywide operations more efficiently and on a broader scale.

Axiata’s telecoms infrastructure company Edotco announced on Wednesday that its Sri Lankan subsidiary, Edotco Services Lanka, has received the country’s first licence to provide neutral-hosted infrastructure services in Sri Lanka.

Philippine telco PLDT and its wireless arm Smart Communications said on Wednesday they have expanded their grassroots programme to prevent theft of telecoms infrastructure by partnering with local communities, following its initial launch earlier this year.

Bharti Airtel-controlled telecoms tower firm Indus Towers revealed on Tuesday it is making plans to expand operations outside of India into select international emerging markets – particularly countries in Africa where Airtel currently operates.

Nokia has announced that it has been selected by Indian next-generation connectivity solutions provider Vortex Group to modernise its IP edge and transport network across the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat in the west of India, and Goa in the southwest.

Cloud-native network infrastructure provider Mavenir has announced the successful completion and go-live of its converged charging system (CCS) transformation for SETAR, the primary full-service telecoms provider on the Caribbean island country of Aruba.

Qatar-headquartered telecommunications and ICT provider Ooredoo and airline Qatar Airways have announced a strategic partnership to enhance artificial intelligence (AI), cloud and cybersecurity capabilities in Qatar.

Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research arm of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), and VentureOne, ATRC's venture builder, in collaboration with technology group e&, say they have launched QuantumConnect, a next-generation hardware-based encryption solution, in the UAE.