The World Bank Group has approved US$100 million in financing under the International Development Association’s (IDA) Scale-Up Window to help the Government of Rwanda increase access to broadband and selected digital public services, and strengthen the digital innovation ecosystem in Rwanda.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied China Telecom Americas Corp.'s emergency motion to pause a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order revoking the company's authorizations to continue operating in the U.S.

MTN Cote d'Ivoire (MTNCI), a subsidiary of South Africa-based MTN Group, is currently conducting a pilot phase of 5G in the West African country with beach resorts and rainforests.

The Czech units of O2 and T-Mobile have confirmed that they shut down their 3G networks on 30^th November.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) confirmed Airtel Nigeria, MTN Nigeria and wholesaler Mafab Communications as the three qualifying bidders for its scheduled 3.5GHz spectrum auction.

Eutelsat and Vodacom Tanzania PLC have signed an agreement for packaged services to bring connectivity to underserved regions of Tanzania, leveraging the EUTELSAT KONNECT high-throughput satellite.

Vodafone Qatar has announced its latest milestone in the development of its GigaNet 5G network, with the completion of Qatar’s first successful trial on the millimetre wave (mmWave) spectrum.

Reuters reported that Indian telecom operator Bharti Airtel is in early talks for a majority stake in broadcast satellite service provider Dish TV India Ltd, qutoting local media Mint.

Polsat Plus Group in Poland has officially announced the completion of the merger of its two mobile network subsidiaries, Polkomtel, trading under the Plus brand, and Aero2.

French ICT group Atos , Siemens and the Moroccan Office for Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE) have announced a project to install 100,000 smart meters (smart grid) throughout the Kingdom.

Ukrainian fibre infrastructure and digital services provider Datagroup has tapped Cisco to modernise its backbone network.

Veon has closed the sale of its Russian mobile towers to local firm Service-Telecom, a partner of VimpelCom’s Beeline, for RUB70.65 billion (US$957 million).

Data centres and the cloud are again in the news in Latin America thanks to announcements from Google in Chile and Codisa in El Salvador.

Singapore’s M1 has confirmed its intent to acquire a stake of “up to 70%” in Malaysia’s Glocomp Systems and two affiliate firms for SG$36 million (US$26.4 million).

The state-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has announced the rollout of its 4G services across the country by September of next year and will generate around INR 9 billion in revenue, said local media reports.

Baltcom, an integrated telecommunications provider in Latvia, has completed its acquisition of Microlines Group, which comprises Microlines, Electrons.lv, Elektrons, Bit Telecom, QWERTY and Clouds 365.

Vodacom Business, a Pan-African Information, Systems, Technology and Communications service provider to enterprises across the continent, has expanded its Cloud Connect offering to support businesses across Africa.

Indonesia-based mobile telecommunications services operator XL Axiata said that its unit XL Axiata Business Solutions sees the huge market potential for business-to-business (B2B) and SME corporate services in Sumatra.

Could a new partnership be a boost for the Internet of Things – or at least the LoRaWAN version of IoT – in the Middle East and North Africa?

Indonesian converged network operator XL Axiata, says it is using the VIAVI ONMSi Optical Network Management System to increase visibility into its fibre network.

Tajikistan’s Babilon-Mobile, which operates as Babilon-M, has selected Baicells as its provider for hundreds of new 4G and 5G base stations to be deployed imminently.

Altice Dominicana has begun deploying its 3.5GHz 5G network in the Dominican Republic.

Liquid Intelligent Technologies has partnered with UNICEF to support the Giga Initiative – a collaboration between UNICEF and the ITU aimed at connecting schools across Africa.

By the end of 2027, 5G will represent around 39% of mobile subscriptions in India with an estimated 500 million subscriptions, said a report.

Finnish multinational telecommunications major Nokia announced the successful completion of the first 25GPON trial in Turkey with Turk Telekom.

The Office of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) in Thailand has announced a partnership with Huawei Technologies to accelerate fibre infrastructure development in Thailand at the “Giga Thailand: Broadband Forum”.

DirecTV Argentina, now owned by local holding company Grupo Werthein, has signed an agreement with the Argentinian telecommunications service provider Metrotel to expand its fibre to the home network in the Buenos Aires province.

The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) has reportedly initiated a preliminary engagement with aerospace manufacturer, space transportation services and communications corporation SpaceX, exploring the introduction of Starlink internet services in the country.

Bridge Data Centres has announced plans to build another new data centre in Malaysia. The new facility will be located in the Kidex Sedenak business park in Sedenak, to the north of Johor, and will reportedly be the largest of its kind in Malaysia.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has released a consultation paper entitled “Auction of spectrum in the frequencies identified for International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) / 5G”. This apparently comes in response to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) request on 13 September to TRAI to provide recommendations on the subject.