Vietnam’s state-owned VNPT (Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group) has launched a pilot mobile money service nationwide.

Indian cellular operators Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel to increase their combined revenue market share for private telecom operators to 80%-82% in 2022, from around 77%-78% in June 2021, said the credit rating agency Fitch Rating.

Indian multinational telecommunications services company Bharti Airtel has conducted India's first 5G trial in the 700 MHz band with mobile and telecom equipment manufacturing company Nokia.

Three Chinese operators have deployed Huawei MetaAAU — a comprehensive 5G solution — in Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Xiamen.

Global rating agency Fitch Ratings has affirmed Bharti Airtel's long-term foreign currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) and senior unsecured rating at 'BBB-'.

Thirteen foreign technology firms have been reminded by Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzor that they must set up in Russia by 2022. However, actual instructions on what they need to do to meet this mandate have been in short supply.

Malaysian operator Digi is back in the news, where its plans both for a merger with Celcom and for the ongoing shutdown of its 3G service are making headlines.

Algeria’s telecoms regulator has issued additional spectrum in the 900MHz band to the country’s three mobile operators.

Indonesia-based mobile telecommunications services operator PT XL Axiata Tbk (XL Axiata) continues to increase network capacity by applying the latest Smart Massive MIMO technology in collaboration with Huawei.

Mauritius-based West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC), has announced a $200 million debt and equity capital raise which the company says will be used to expand its connectivity within Africa and internationally.

China had summoned the cloud units of Alibaba and Baidu to better control telecom network fraud, according to a report in Reuters quoting the country's industry ministry sources.

The telecommunications provider in Indonesia PT Indosat Tbk (Indosat Ooredoo) together with Transaction Artha Gemilang (TAG), a payment services company affiliated with the Salim Group, are proud to launch the expansion of IMkas, the latest server-based electronic money service to cellular users in Indonesia.

Cable Bahamas (REV) has confirmed that it will upgrade its legacy HFC cable infrastructure with fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) technology on the Bahamas’ most populous island of New Providence.

Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has cleared MTN Group to sell shares in its local unit via a series of offers.

Latvia’s regulator SPRK (Sabiedrisko Pakalpojumu Regulesanas Komisija / Public Utilities Commission) has announced that it will hold auctions next month for 700MHz 5G-capable spectrum.

ZTE Corporation has conducted its 5G Summit and User Congress 2021 via live stream.

Parts of Africa may be able to look forward to a new approach to energy efficiency that could also benefit data centre rollout. This comes in the wake of an announcement from a company that aims to create a sustainable bridge between excess energy and the power needs of the high-performance computing industry.

Romania has concluded its multi-band auction of 195MHz of available spectrum.

Telecom Egypt has deployed coherent optical technology from Ciena to maximise capacity along the Mediterranean segment of its Middle East North Africa (MENA) submarine cable system and Egypt’s mesh network.

The ratings agency Moody's Investors Service on November 23 revised Bharti Airtel Ltd's and its subsidiary Bharti Airtel International (Netherlands) BV's rating outlook to positive from stable.

The telecommunications services provider in the Philippines, Globe Telecom Inc. has expanded the reach of its GoWiFi service to more areas nationwide to provide Filipinos with access to an affordable and stable internet connection in public areas.

Huawei Technologies is set to boost Malaysia's digitization efforts as the Chinese telecom giant seeks to accelerate the country's digital economy transformation by building the country into ASEAN digital hub.

ZTE Corporation has collaborated with Riedel Communications to deploy a custom-made, non-public 5G-as-a-Service on a campus community.

Indonesian fixed broadband provider Moratelindo has expanded its capacity in what are called key network sections with the help of Ribbon Optical Solutions.

T-Mobile Polska, one of the largest mobile operators in Poland, has launched a long-haul 400 Gigabit Ethernet (400GbE) service.

MTN Ghana CEO Selorm Adadevoh has told local journalists that the company has modernized at least 1,322 sites in readiness for 5G network rollout, which is slated to take place next year.

Nxtra by Airtel, Indian telecoms company Bharti Airtel's data centre subsidiary, has launched a new 38MW hyperscale data centre in Chennai, the capital of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The new facility is Nxtra’s third in Chennai.

Moov Africa Chad is aiming to deploy fibre infrastructure in the capital of N’Djamena as it seeks to extend its mobile network in the face of escalating demand.

Etisalat Misr, Telecom Egpyt and Vodafone Egypt have reportedly all been cleared to use additional spectrum by the country’s National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA).

Libyan provider Lnet has deployed Cambium Networks’ ePMP fixed wireless broadband technology to connect more than 60,000 residential, business and enterprise customers in Libya.

Vodacom Group is investing a further R500 million (US$31.6 million) on batteries to power its infrastructure in the face of continued power outages across South Africa.

Residents of two remote Kazakhstan villages can now benefit from unprecedented Internet speeds via satellite-enabled Wi-Fi, through a network set up for 30 days by connectivity solutions provider SES.