Nokia has announced that Bharti Airtel will trial its homogenous fronthaul solution which can support 4G, 5G and enterprise services through a common platform.

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has chosen Fontech software to deliver public Wi-Fi connectivity. The deal includes Fontech’s Wi-Fi Service Management Platform (WSMP) and Connection Manager.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released a white paper on 'Enabling 5G in India'. The TRAI notes that, globally, full scale deployment of 5G networks is expected to start by late 2019 or early 2020 and that pilots for these have already commenced.

Global communications company Viasat and social media behemoth Facebook are collaborating to accelerate the deployment of affordable, high-speed, high-quality internet to Mexican communities that lack reliable internet, or have no connectivity at all.

According to a new reports from the Canalys market research firm, Indonesia was the brightest spot in Asia Pacific’s 2018 smartphone market. Shipments there reached a record high of 38 million in the year, up 17.1% on 2017.

Chilean telecom operator Gtd Teleductos S.A. has awarded contracts worth €50 million to the Prysmian Group to develop a turnkey repeater-less submarine cable system connecting Arica to Puerto Montt in Chile.

Nokia's annual Mobile Broadband India Traffic (MBiT) Index study of mobile broadband performance in India reveals that the increase in the consumption of data across the country led to overall growth of data traffic by 109%, with 4G technology constituting 92% of this growth.

Latvian telecommunications operator LMT has deployed Harmonic ‘s EyeQ™ content-aware encoding solution for its live OTT service, delivered to TVs via 4G set-top boxes.

Phoenix Tower International (PTI) has reached an agreement with Uniti Group to acquire the ownership rights relating to over 500 wireless communication tower sites located across Mexico, Colombia and Nicaragua.

Ericsson has been selected by Telefónica Movistar México, a subsidiary of Telefónica South America, to deploy the Service Operation Center (SOC) platform to enhance subscribers’ experience through Ericsson Expert Analytics.

Sky and Space Global has received signed binding commitments for raising $12 million in a two-tranche share placement to investors as part of its $15 million fundraising effort.

Cambridge Broadband Networks (CBNL) has signed an agreement to provide carrier-class mmWave connectivity to MAXnet, the leading wireless internet service provider (WISP) in Sudan.

Es'hailSat, Qatar Satellite Company and BridgeSat will provide businesses and governments across the Middle East with affordable access to laser-based satellite broadband services.

Tele2 Russia has launched SunTech’s SunVizion Network Inventory and Planning solution to store and manage information about logical and physical network elements and optimise the processes related to network management.

Indian market leader Vodafone Idea has selected Ericsson to deploy 5G-ready equipment across select markets in India.

MTN Group has reaffirmed its innocence as its long-running legal spat with Turkcell reignited after a South African ambassador was arrested on corruption charges.

Hutchison Telecommunications Lanka (Hutch Lanka) and the Sri Lankan Board of Investments have signed a deal to deploy a 4G network across the island nation.

The Warsaw Metropolitan Police (KSP Warsaw) are expanding their DMR Simulcast system using the OmniBAS platform from Intracom Telecom.

The CEO of Russian bank VTB has confirmed that it intends to sell its interest in Tele2 Russia to state-run operator Rostelecom.

Kalimat Telecom, a subsidiary of Kuwait’s Trade Links, has selected Parallel Wireless to build out its mobile broadband network in Iraq.

Orange Polska is deploying Matrixx Digital Commerce as a foundation for its digital transformation.

Omantel is launching a new phase of its multi-play billing and charging transformation on Optiva’s Charging Engine.

Millicom has selected Tutela to deliver crowdsourced network quality measurement solutions to its Tigo branded businesses in Latin America.

The Indian smartphone market grew by nearly 20% in Q4 of 2018, with data from IDC showing that Chinese vendors were the main beneficiaries.

Nokia's 5G-ready AirScale Cloud RAN solution and controllers have been successfully deployed by Telenor Pakistan.

Saudi Arabia’s Mobily is using Viavi’s Nitro Geo solution to boost its operational efficiency and capacity.