Juvo partners with mobile operators to establish a financial identity and provide access to financial services for unbanked prepaid mobile users around the world.
Huawei’s RuralStar self-contained cell-site solution expands cellular coverage to areas where it was previously uneconomical.
BIMA affordable insurance and health products address the very low rates of insurance penetration in African emerging markets.
India’s Reliance Jio is reportedly gunning for the launch of FTTH (fibre to the home) broadband before the end of March.
China Mobile has partnered with Viavi to introduce 5G services in China by the end of 2019, ahead of the 2020 launch that most of the country’s operators are targeting.
South Africa’s Standard Bank is reportedly aiming to launch an MVNO.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Spain’s Telefonica, one of the world’s largest telecommunications groups, have agreed to work together to leverage the use of cutting-edge digital technologies for agricultural development, food security and nutrition in the developing world.
The government of India has announced plans to invite bids for 3,000MHz of spectrum across nine frequency bands, in what would be the country’s largest ever auction.
NEC Corporation is increasing its investment in XON Holdings Proprietary Limited (XON), an ICT solutions company based in the Republic of South Africa, making it a subsidiary through NEC Europe Ltd.
Mexico’s regulator Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) has said that its upcoming spectrum auctions will be open to all interested operators.
Ooredoo Myanmar has extended its 4G coverage to 200 townships, encompassing two-thirds of the country’s inhabited settlements.
Network security and caching specialist MARA Systems has selected Mumbai-IX to provide its services to customers in India.
LTE chipmaker Sequans Communications announced that its LTE chipset has been selected by Bolt, the 4G LTE service of PT Internux, to power an LTE outdoor unit (ODU) that is now available and shipping to customers in Indonesia.
After a steep increase in its leasing costs, China Tower has agreed to lower its rates for rental agreements following negotiations with the country’s three main operators, China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom.
Nokia and China Unicom are to deploy a cloud-native core network based on Nokia AirGile technology in seven Chinese provinces.
Orange and the CNED (National Distance Learning Centre) have partnered to facilitate access to educational content on smartphones in Africa.
Malaysia’s three biggest mobile operators have all renewed their 2.1GHz spectrum licences for a fee of MYR118.4 million ($30.5 million) each.
New research on the pay-TV channel ecosystem from Media Partners Asia (MPA) shows India powering revenue and profit growth for regional pay-TV broadcasters in Asia Pacific.
Sierra Leone’s state-owned incumbent operator Sierratel has launched mobile 4G services.
Openet today has entered into a partnership with Globe Telecom to provide its Digital Business Platform to the Philippines-based operator.
Huawei has entered into an agreement with UnionPay to expand its Huawei Pay service beyond China for the first time.
Investment firm Teleology Holdings has reportedly won the bidding for Nigeria’s beleaguered operator 9mobile with an offer of roughly $500 million.
Bulgarian operator Mtel is using Amdocs’ DigitalONE platform to overhaul its digital commerce and care experience offering.
Smartphone shipments fell in China for the first time during 2017, dropping 4% compared to 2016 to 459 million units.
Telenor has announced that it is weighing up an offer that it has received for four of its units in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).
Bharti Airtel’s acquisition of Millicom’s Tigo Rwanda unit has been approved by Rwanda’s Utilities Regulatory Authority.
Bulgaria could see the launch of its first MVNO if discussions between the country’s mobile operators and five TV and internet providers prove fruitful.
Xiaomi has taken Samsung’s place at the top of the Indian smartphone market after seeing its Q4 2017 shipments top 8.2 million devices.
MTN has declared its intent to treble its mobile money subscribers in Africa across the next four years, with the ambition of becoming the continent’s largest financial institution.
Idea Cellular has registered its largest ever quarterly loss, adding to its troubles as it prepares to merge with Vodafone India.
WorldLink, the largest ISP and network service operator in Nepal, has contracted Finland-headquartered Nokia to build the country's largest Fibre To The Home (FTTH) network.
China’s Big Three operators have collectively surpassed 1 billion 4G subscribers following a combined 25 million additions in December 2017.
Rajant and Minerva have signed a new distribution agreement to bring Rajant’s Kinetic Mesh wireless networks to companies in the Middle East and Africa (MEA).
Albanian operator ALBtelecom is implementing Sicap’s Mobile Device Management Centre (DMC) to offer its subscribers automated handset configuration with a faster problem resolution from its customer care centres.
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