India’s Department of Telecom (DoT) has approved plans which will require all mobile handsets to feature GPS from 1^st January 2018.

Lebanon’s TASC Towers is reportedly closing in on a deal to acquire around 7,500 mobile towers from Zain Saudi Arabia for around $500M.

China’s second largest player China Unicom is currently in talk with the country’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) to obtain 700MHz spectrum in exchange for shares.

Mobile payments company Bango has enabled mobile operator Viva Kuwait to upgrade its Google Play carrier billing from a direct integration to the Bango Platform.

Ooredoo Maldives is leveraging Syniverse’s global, reliable and secure platform to protect against mobile roaming fraud and more accurately collect revenue for services across its operations.

WorldRemit and Huawei have announced a partnership to make WorldRemit’s international money transfer service available to all partners of Huawei’s mobile money service platform across Africa.

Telefonica’s global infrastructure group Telxius is now offering its customers on-demand software-defined terabit capacity subsea service activation on its SAM-1 subsea network between the U.S., Brazil and Puerto Rico.

The motives behind Polish operator Play’s upcoming IPO have been called into question by some of the country’s leading financial analysts.

Research and Markets’ most recent look at Saudi Arabia’s mobile market has identified the key areas of focus for operators in the Middle Eastern country.

Leading Vietnamese operator VNPT has chosen Ericsson as a strategic partner to modernise its charging and business support system.

Ooredoo Qatar and Comptel have signed a self-service technology agreement to improve customer service.

Nokia is bringing its 1830 PSS (Photonic Service Switch) DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) technology to Nepal in partnership with WorldLink.

Russia’s communications minister Nikolai Nikiforov has stated that it would be counter-productive to push back a new law that would oblige operators to store all user-generated data for six months.

Indian e-commerce firm Snapdeal has shot down an initial takeover offer from rival Flipkart.

China Telecom and Ericsson have launched the China Telecom IoT Open Platform, a global connection management platform that will accelerate the deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and services.

Nepal’s Ncell Axiata is increasing its collaboration efforts with Chinese vendor ZTE in the field of network virtualisation.

Poland’s Play is offloading PLN5.3 billion (€1.3 billion) of shares in its recently announced IPO.

20 million households and businesses will have wired internet connection by 2022 in Africa, compared to 11 million in 2016, predicts Dataxis analyst Sa Eva Nébié.

Intelsat S.A and Gilat Satellite Networks have partnered for a joint managed services solution to provide 3G infrastructure in the most remote locations around the globe, where terrestrial services are not feasible.

Retail giant Alibaba is reportedly nearing a deal to obtain ZTE’s software subsidiary, ZTEsoft Technology.

London-headquartered NGO Save the Children International (SCI) has awarded Speedcast a contract to provide connectivity to a network of 40+ sites in Africa.

Etisalat Nigeria has lost the support of UAE-based investment fund Mubadala after the operator failed to agree renewed terms on a $1.2 billion loan that it took out four years ago.