A court in Brazil has prevented Facebook from accessing funding worth BRL19.5 million ($6.1 million) over a security dispute with WhatsApp.
A court in Brazil has prevented Facebook from accessing funding worth BRL19.5 million ($6.1 million) over a security dispute with WhatsApp.
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has declared MTN as winner of its latest auction for a ten-year frequency spectrum licence for the 2.6GHz band.
Tecnotree has completed the deployment of its Agility Convergent Billing Solution (CBS) for Mobile GSM services for Omantel.
Astellia has been awarded a 4G network monitoring deal by Ucom Armenia to help them guarantee the fastest 4G services in Armenia.
iWayAfrica and Avanti have announced that consumer and business customers in Kenya can now benefit from increased downlink speeds to 15Mbps in a move that will improve their satellite connectivity.
Ericsson has been selected as a Managed Services partner by Makedonski Telekom in Macedonia, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom Group.
Xura has announced an agreement with Indonesian market leader Telkomsel to help protect the operator’s more than 153 million subscribers from SMS spam.
Mobile payment enabler Union Mobile Pay is working with Syniverse to enable banking institutions across China to enhance their customer loyalty programs.
Pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom has entered into an agreement to acquire South African communications network operator Neotel.
Russian banking services provider VTB24 has implemented Gemalto’s Ezio Mobile Protector smartphone-based secure software app solution.
Telefonica has partnered with the Chinese vendors ZTE and Huawei in order to bolster its 5G development.
Chinese device manufacturer Huawei is developing a bespoke operating system to decrease its dependency on Google’s Android OS.
Intracom Telecom has signed an agreement with Lintasarta to supply its latest Point-to-Multipoint (PtMP) wireless system in Indonesia.
Orange has agreed to acquire Airtel’s mobile operation in Burkina Faso, expanding its footprint in Africa & the Middle East to twenty countries.
India’s cabinet has backed a regulator proposal to auction of a huge amount of spectrum that could generate as much as a record INR5.6 trillion ($85 billion).
Wirecard AG and Verifone have entered into a strategic alliance to rapidly expand the point-of-sale market in Asia Pacific beginning with Indonesia.
Telco Systems has successfully deployed a new 10GE high capacity carrier Ethernet network for the Kenya Education Network (KENET) in Kenya.
Brazilian operator Oi has filed for bankruptcy protection after failing to negotiate a deal to restructure its debt.
Apple has hit a setback in China after the country’s regulator for intellectual property upheld a claim that the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus infringe on an exterior design patent held by a Chinese company.
Telefónica del Perú and ZTE have begun commercial operation of the first IP multimedia subsystem voice over long-term evolution (IMS VoLTE) network in Perú.
MTN has appointed a Rob Shuter, a major executive from Vodafone, as its new CEO.
Ericsson has confirmed that it has been questioned by US authorities as part of an investigation into alleged corruption related to the Swedish vendor’s business in China.
New customised services such as cloud-based, real-time, high definition (HD) video will become one of the main sources of operator revenue in future as voice, SMS and data income streams decline.
ABS has successfully launched its ABS-2A satellite aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 full thrust rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Cable & Wireless Seychelles has chosen Teoco’s Asset network planning tool to improve the performance of its 2G, 3G and LTE-A mobile networks.
Israeli operator Cellcom is demanding ILS900 million ($233 million) from smaller competitor Golan Telecom as compensation after it pulled out of merger talks to work with another company.
China Mobile has signed a €1.36 billion ($1.5 billion) one-year contract with Nokia.
VimpelCom has entered into a software partnership with Ericsson in a deal worth more than USD 1 billion that will radically transform VimpelCom's global IT infrastructure.
IHS Holding has completed the acquisition of Helios Towers Nigeria’s 1,211 diversified tower sites throughout Nigeria.
Afrimax Group has signed a partner market agreement with Vodafone in Zambia to offer 4G data services under the Vodafone Zambia brand.
The ongoing merger talks between Indian number four RCom and smaller Aircel have reportedly led to an agreement due to wrap within a month.
MTN Nigeria has come to an agreement with the government of Nigeria over the colossal fine issued to the operator eight months ago.
Djibouti Telecom is implementing a suite of solutions from Syniverse for performance analysis, forecasting and budget management, and fraud protection.
TIM Brasil has attained Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) 2.0 certification for its nationwide Carrier Ethernet business services in Brazil.
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