Bharti Airtel is looking to reduce its African footprint through consolidation or stake reductions in six non-profitable markets.
XL Axiata will provide satellite broadband services throughout Indonesia following a new agreement between Axiata Business Services and Thaicom subsidiary IPSTAR.
The first quarter of 2017 saw a return to growth for India’s smartphone market, with over 27 million units shipped marking a 12% year-on-year increase.
The market for tower services in the Sub-Saharan Africa region was worth an estimated $991.7 million in 2016, according to Research & Markets.
A consortium led by Education Development Centre (EDC) Inc., with members including Souktel, has been selected by USAID Rwanda to lead a new five-year $22.5 million youth initiative.
Solar solutions company BBOXX has partnered with IoT specialist Aeris to deliver clean energy to millions of people living in off-grid communities in the developing world.
Telia has succeeded in divesting its 60% stake in the parent company of Tajikistan’s Tcell.
NTT Communications has acquired a Virtual Network Operator – International Long Distance (VNO-ILD) licence in India through its affiliate, NTT Communications India Network Services (NTTCINS).
Morocco’s INWI has signed an agreement to integrate satellite services from the Intelsat EpicNG platform into its network.
Indian debutante Reliance Jio recorded a dramatic net loss for the second half of its fiscal 2017, with its extensive package of discounts resulting in an almost complete erosion of revenue.
Having long held third place in the Thai mobile market, True Move has pushed into second place in Q1 2017 after the previous number two dtac recorded a poor first quarter.
The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has expressed its preference for the country’s next round of spectrum auctions to be postponed to late 2018 or early 2019.
Bangladeshi operator Banglalink has contracted ZTE to build what will be the world’s largest virtual subscriber data management (vSDM) platform.
Egyptian fixed incumbent Telecom Egypt has signed a national roaming agreement with Orange Egypt as it readies its mobile launch.
Vietnamese market leader Viettel has officially launched its 4G service.
Apple is set to begin trialling smartphone production in India from May without waiting for a governmental response to its tax concessions plea.
China Mobile’s Pakistani unit Zong has pledged that it will upgrade all of its mobile base stations to 4G by the end of 2017.
T-Systems and Huawei are bringing Open Telekom Cloud (OTC) to South Africa.
Vodafone Egypt has tapped Procera Networks to enhance the subscriber experience for its fixed and mobile subscribers.
Intelsat S.A. has signed a new agreement with Liquid Telecom that will introduce high performance Intelsat EpicNG satellite services into the pan-African group’s network.
ECI has partnered with Colombia’s largest fibre optics operator Media Commerce to deliver packet-optical metro and aggregation networks nationwide.
A lack of sufficient evidence has led the South African Competition Commission to drop its probe into MTN and Vodacom over anti-competitive pricing strategies.
Telefónica is deploying dedicated Service Operations Centres (SOC) in Argentina and Chile for the intelligent management of its networks.
Google has resolved a long-running spat with the Russian competition watchdog over its Android operating system.
Vodacom Tanzania is considering whether to push back the deadline for parties to register their interest in its upcoming IPO, which is thus far under-subscribed.
The three largest operators in Thailand have been given a one month deadline to install fingerprint scanners to register all subscribers to an online ID database.
Days after TRAI’s recommendation that it shutter its latest free offer, Reliance Jio has launched low-rate unlimited data plans.
Indonesia is set to receive a new mobile payments platform following the announcement of a joint venture between media firm Emtek (Elang Mahkota Teknologi) and Alipay’s parent firm Ant Financial.
Vietnam’s Mobifone is launching carrier billing on Google Play with Fortumo.
Orange Egypt has deployed Openet’s Real-Time Offer Manager (RTOM) solution plus reporting tools to improve subscriber experience and increase data revenues.
Over the past two years, Indian market leader Bharti Airtel has doubled its total footprint of mobile network sites in India.
Telkom Kenya is switching out its Orange Money service for a new platform in order to better compete with Kenya’s mobile money market leader, m-Pesa.
Indian regulator TRAI has effectively blocked Reliance Jio’s free offer for new signups to its Prime membership.
Telenor is selling a 4% stake in Veon – formerly VimpelCom – for around $259 million.
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