At the B20 Summit, a business community focused event that is part of the G20 Summit, operator Telkom Indonesia and cloud computing company GoogleCloud have announced a multi-year strategic collaboration to realize Telkom’s vision of becoming a leading digital telco that empowers local businesses and communities.

An ongoing dispute between South Africa’s Vodacom Group and the Lesotho Communications Authority (LCA) has been resolved by the Lesotho High Court.

The Government of Senegal, through the country’s Ministry of the Interior, has awarded Motorola Solutions a contract to deploy a nationwide secure and resilient communications ASTRO P25 radio network to modernize public safety communications in Senegal.

Montenegrin operator One Crna Gora – formerly Telenor Montenegro, and now part of Hungary’s 4iG – is implementing Elisa Polystar’s KALIX and OSIX service assurance solutions.

The Indonesian smartphone market recorded a 12.4% year-on-year decline in shipments to 8.1 million units in Q3, as the market constricted due to inflation and rising fuel costs.

BDx Indonesia, one of the largest wholesale data centre and cloud-focused operations in the Indonesian market, has announced a plan to develop a new 100MW data centre campus on 12 acres of land acquired from industrial area developer Suryacipta.

Digicel Group Holdings has warned that its business is being impacted by current unrest in Haiti.

TeleYemen, the sole licensed provider of international telecommunication services in Yemen, has chosen the Linxa Connect Voice Platform from wholesale telecom software platform company Linxa for its international voice business.

South African operator Vodacom has registered an H1 drop in both operating profit and net profit which it has attributed to losses from its start-up business in Ethiopia and higher finance costs.

Orange Botswana has become the first Orange affiliate to launch 5G, covering 30% of the population including greater Gaborone and Francistown. Other cities will follow in early 2023.

Libya’s state-owned internet service provider LTT (Libya Telecom & Technology) has tapped P.I. Works to deploy its EXA automation solution across the ISP’s national radio access networks (RANs).

The role of satellites in supporting broadband access is again in the news, with Hispasat and Sencinet announcing plans to expand their collaboration to extend satellite broadband access in Mexico.

ZTE Corporation has officially released the Beyond 5G Technology Whitepaper at 5G Summit 2022.

Nigeria’s less well-served areas are set to benefit from a new deal bringing together satcoms and broadband.

Omani operator Omantel has launched what is described as the Middle East’s first 400GbE DCI service with networking systems, services and software company Ciena.

Telenor is pursuing the sale of its Pakistani operations, with invitations the first round of bids likely to be issued this month.

South Sudan detailed its plan on developing an infrastructure backbone to overcome connectivity challenges associated with being a landlocked nation and become a central hub for communications in eastern Africa.

This week has seen major announcements relating to its Mexican and Indonesian markets from Amdocs, a provider of software and services to communications and media companies.

Recent announcements in Cameroon and Kenya have underlined the importance to African communications of supporting – and being seen to support – sustainable approaches to energy and design.

Orange Côte d’Ivoire has announced a partnership with Vanu to provide connectivity in rural areas of the country.

Telecom Namibia is partnering with OMDis Town Transformation Agency for a new fibre deployment in the formerly privately-owned diamond mining town of Oranjemund.

Paratus Zambia is partnering with Meta to build a new 900km open access metro fibre network aimed at boosting connectivity across the country.

A new submarine cable system in Southeast Asia is on the way after a consortium of telecommunication companies agreed to invest about US$300 million in Asia Link Cable (ALC).

OneWeb, a global communications network powered from space, has announced the signing of a distribution partnership agreement with Airtel Africa, a provider of telecommunications and mobile money services across Africa.