Since 8:30pm yesterday evening (Sunday 20th January) Tonga Cable has been suffering an outage in the submarine cable network that connects the island nation to the outside world, plunging the island nation into digital isolation.

Hot on the heels of reaching a deal to sell its Albanian operations, OTE Group is reportedly now discussing a sale of its majority stake in Telekom Romania to a consortium of investors.

IX Reach is expanding its partnership with AMS-IX into India to bring robust and resilient connectivity into AMS-IX’s Internet Exchange in Mumbai.

Thailand’s True Move has stated that it does not intend to bid in this year’s upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction.

Ooredoo Palestine has upgraded and expanded its multi-year software and support agreement with Optiva Inc.

Liberty Latin America is currently in discussions over a possible acquisition of Millicom, which has extensive operations in the region.

Eutelsat initiative Konnect Africa has launched Internet access offers in Côte d'Ivoire.

Helios Towers is preparing for the advent of 5G in South Africa by partnering with local networks specialist Vulatel to deploy open access wireless and fixed line infrastructure across the country.

Samsung is looking to regain the ground it has lost in India to Chinese device makers with a range of low-cost smartphones.

Versa Networks and BringCom Incorporated are deploying a joint solution to deliver Versa’s best-in-class SD-WAN capabilities to BringCom’s telecom managed service providers and SaaS platform operators in East and West Africa.

Thai operator dtac will pay state-owned CAT Telecom THB9.51 billion ($296 million) in a settlement that resolves most of the legal disputes that arose during their 27-year concession arrangement.

Telekom Srbija is unlikely to be privatised in 2019 despite investors registering their interest, according to Serbia’s minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications.

The government of the Philippines has confirmed that at least four companies have expressed an interest in forming a tower sharing venture to boost base station deployment in the archipelago.

Russia’s MTS has begun the deconstruction of its network infrastructure in Turkmenistan after failing to reach a settlement with the country’s authorities.

Ooredoo Myanmar has selected Nokia to secure its telecom and ICT networks against cyber threats.

Indonesian operator Smartfren will continue the operations of mobile internet provider Bolt following the cancellation of its spectrum licence by the country’s government.

Reliance Communications and Reliance Jio have agreed to finalise their proposed asset sale deal by June even though the Indian government has refused to approve their anticipated spectrum trading agreement.

Nokia and Ooredoo have set up the first 5G-ready Technology Centre in Myanmar.

Tigo Senegal has selected Ericsson for its nationwide network modernisation project as it looks to accelerate digitalisation in the expanding Senegalese market.