The government of Colombia has ordered the operators Claro and Movistar to pay a total of COP4.8 trillion ($1.6 billion) after they were found to have violated network licensing agreements by an arbitration tribunal.

Managed municipal services provider Viginet-IP S.A. has selected solutions from 5G specialist Mimosa Networks for its new network in Argentina.

OPT and Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) - part of Nokia - have signed a turn-key agreement for the deployment of the NATITUA cable system, which will further enhance the connectivity in French Polynesia.

Virgin Mobile and Vodacom are among the firms that have expressed an interest in acquiring 9mobile.

Cable & Wireless Seychelles has tapped Syniverse to improve roaming experiences for inbound and outbound roaming customers.

Indonesia has blocked access to the encrypted messaging service Telegram over claims that users were spreading “radical and terrorist propaganda”.

Caribbean service provider Logic has selected solutions from Calix to enhance existing GigaCentre deployments and improve its subscriber experience in the Cayman Islands.

Belizean operator Smart has implemented FTS’ real-time billing and charging solution to support its expansion into 4G/LTE.

According to latest research conducted by Dataxis, fixed broadband connections for Latin America in the first quarter of 2017 reached 68.11 million.

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.