As part of its West Africa expansion, MainOne has secured a licence to expand national and international connectivity services in Cote d’Ivoire.

A Nigerian federal court has ruled that Teleology Holdings’ acquisition of the beleaguered operator 9mobile must be halted until a shareholder dispute has been settled.

Polaris Networks has deployed its LTE packet core for Globe Internet, a Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) in Malawi.

Cisco and KaR-Tel, a leading mobile and network service provider in Kazakhstan, have announced the availability of the Cisco Jasper Control Centre automated IoT connectivity platform for all companies looking to deliver IoT services to their customers on KaR-Tel’s mobile network.

Tata Communications and South African ICT services provider Dreamtime Technologies (DTTech) have joined forces to build a new cloud-based virtual mobile network to serve African mobile and IoT providers.

Russian operators have been ordered to block access to the secure messaging app Telegram from today (16^th April).

The imminent merger between Vodafone India and Idea Cellular could result in as many as 5,000 staff – nearly a quarter of the operators’ combined workers – being made redundant.

The government of the Philippines has established an oversight committee to ensure that the introduction of a third player to the country’s mobile market is “undertaken in an integrated and transparent manner”.

Teleology’s acquisition of Nigerian operator 9mobile could fall through if it does not pay the remaining $450 million fee within 90 days.

Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri has said in an interview that he expects India to be one of the first countries to see 5G rollouts as the “explosion of data is massive” in the market.

MTN and Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) are collaborating to leverage each other’s assets in order to offer more value to their respective customers across the continent.

Intelsat S.A. and Vodacom Business Nigeria have signed an agreement for satellite services that will see the latter expand its enterprise broadband networks and enable new and enhanced services throughout West Africa.

PayPal and Safaricom have formed a partnership that enables Kenyans to seamlessly move money between their M-PESA and PayPal accounts.

Almost 101 million prepaid SIM cards were blocked by the Indonesian government during March as a result of users neglecting to re-register their prepaid numbers using a valid form of identity.

India’s Supreme Court has cleared the partial sale of debt-laden Reliance Communications (RCom)’s wireless assets to Reliance Jio.

Etisalat has selected NEC/Netcracker as the prime solution provider for its multivendor telecom cloud program.

Comarch and True Corporation have formed a partnership to implement Comarch Loyalty Management services, replacing the operator’s existing in-house application True You.

The upgraded version of Ecobank’s mobile app has attracted 3 million new customers in just 6 months, taking the total number of users to 4 million.

Telefonica is waiting for its shareholders to greenlight plans to list its Argentinean unit on the Buenos Aires stock exchange.

Orange is aiming to become a key player in the energy transition sector in Africa by providing services directly to the general public or as a wholesaler to public operators.

Digital money transfer provider SimbaPay is launching an AI (Artificial Intelligence) powered chatbot service which makes International Money Transfer possible with a single SMS.

Thai regulator NBTC (National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission) has been granted authority by the country’s State Council to auction off spectrum in the 850MHz and 1.8GHz bands.