The government of Mexico has received its first bid to build a state-owned network from an unnamed consortium.
Telefonica has closed its deal with Vivendi to acquire its Brazilian broadband unit GVT.
Reliance Jio Infocomm is aiming to roll out its full 4G offering by March 2015, and has signed a tower-sharing deal with GTL Infrastructure to speed up the deployment while keeping costs down.
Indian state-owned operator BSNL is distributing 5000 free SIM cards to areas of the Kashmir valley affected by flooding.
India’s Department of Telecommunications has stymied Bharti Airtel’s proposed acquisition of Loop, a deal which would have led to the creation of Mumbai’s largest mobile network.
Vodacom Business has launched Fibre To The Business (FTTB) services in South Africa.
Alcatel-Lucent will upgrade Globe Telecom’s wireless network infrastructure in the Philippine regions of Visayas and Mindanao from WiMax to LTE-TDD and LTE-FDD ultra-broadband access technologies.
Orange and Bank of Africa have expanded their partnership to offer direct transfers between accounts via mobile.
Virgin Mobile’s new MVNO, Virgin Mobile Central and Eastern Europe (VMCEE), has attracted €40 million of investment from new backers.
The Chinese authorities are reportedly licensing three smartphone manufacturers to provide MVNO services in the country.
Following a significant drop in customers for its Nextel Mexico unit, NII Holdings has filed for bankruptcy.
Amid a frantic operator power struggle in Brazil, Telecom Italia is believed to be considering a bid for fixed-line operator Oi.
Telefónica has chosen Huawei to manage its Latin-American networks, with the Chinese vendor providing its end to end Performance Management Solution.
America Movil has reportedly contacted several operators that it believes could be interested in acquiring some of the Mexican assets that it is being forced to sell.
Two major Romanian operators are rebranding to reflect their parent company, Deutsche Telekom.
Thai broadband provider Interlink Telecom is implementing Alcatel-Lucent’s portfolio of Agile Optical Networking solutions across its network.
Etisalat Nigeria has renewed its managed services contract with Nokia Networks for three more years with expanded services scope.
Amid ongoing conflict with Russia, the government of Ukraine is reportedly seeking to reduce its larger neighbour’s influence in its mobile sector.
Thai operator True and China Mobile have entered into a strategic partnership that will allow True to reduce its debt.
Tata Communications is launching VoLTE solutions in India, allowing users to make calls over their 4G network.
Entel SA has signed ZTE to build out the first large-scale FTTx network in Bolivia covering all the 4 regions.
India’s market leading operators have stepped up their efforts to resume services in Jammu & Kashmir region intense flooding ravaged the region.
Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas is reportedly attempting to acquire 50% of Iusacell from broadcaster Televisa, in a deal which would give him full control of Mexico’s number three operator.
Namibian operator Paratus Telecom and PCCW Global have signed an international MPLS and IPX interconnection agreement for Namibia and neighbouring countries.
Millicom’s Tigo has launched the world’s first mobile money service that provides customers with interest returned directly to their wallet.
Telecom Italia CEO Marco Patuano has stated that the firm may abandon the sale of its stake in Telecom Argentina to Fintech if it continues to face regulatory delays.
A new collaboration between Huawei, Zain South Sudan and UNESCO will provide Internet access to a number of schools in South Sudan powered via Zain base stations.
The iPhone is the perennially popular handset, in demand across the world. It is seen as the standard by which the luxury smartphone market is measured, but since the release of the iPhone 5 in 2012 the iPhone’s star has perhaps fallen slightly, with each new iteration being criticised for a lack of true innovation.
Amid rival operators offloading their tower infrastructure to independent firms, Aircel looks set to buy back the towers that it sold to GTL Infrastructure 4 years ago.
Zamtel is collaborating with NEC to build a new digital microwave radio transmission network which will boost mobile coverage and capacity for citizens, enterprises and tourists across Zambia.
After selling its tower infrastructure in 7 African countries to Eaton Towers, Bharti Airtel is believed to be on the verge of agreeing a deal to sell its Nigerian towers business for more than $1 billion.
Slovakian operator Swan has commissioned Chinese vendor ZTE for its nationwide LTE network deployment.
The first in a series of Mobile Health Clinics has been launched in Indonesia by Ooredoo and The Leo Messi Foundation.
African towers firm Eaton Towers has acquired over 3500 telecoms towers from Airtel across 6 African countries.
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