International (and pan-African) operator Orange and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH have inaugurated a new Orange Digital Centre in Bamako.

MTN South Africa is working to expand its 5G coverage and has deployed 5G towers in Polokwane in Limpopo and Emalahleni (Witbank) in Mpumalanga. Despite uncertainty about the allocation of new spectrum, it has deployed 5G towers, reports Tech Central.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) approved a listing by China Telecom on the main board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange six months after the company was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

The Hong Kong-based telecom services provider PCCW has agreed to sell its data center business to a New York-listed infrastructure REIT DigitalBridge Group for $750 million, in a bid to focus on its main telecom business.

Telecom company Lumen Technologies is selling its Latin American network services to private equity firm Stonepeak Partners for $2.7 billion.

The mobile money bandwagon continues to gather pace in Africa. Local press reports indicate that leading Angolan operator Unitel is about to launch a service called Unitel Money.

Bolivia is to expand its deployment of fibre and of cellular antennas to more municipalities across the country’s nine departments, according to recent reports from the Bolivian public works, services and housing ministry.

Public consultations have been announced in Montenegro by the country’s regulator, the Agency for Electronic Communications and Postal Services (EKIP), ahead of a planned auction of radio frequency spectrum.

Nigeria’s government has again pushed back the deadline by which mobile phone users must register a valid National Identification Number (NIN) with their operator.

Angolan newcomer Africell is set to be granted a number of tax and customs exemptions after the country’s parliament unanimously approved the proposal.

Russian company Big Data Platform (BDP), a joint venture by national long-distance telephone provider Rostelecom and the country's bank VTB, has completed tests of the new Big Data security platform.

Estonian fixed and mobile operator Telia Eesti says its 5G network is now available in 77 locations in 14 main cities across the country.

Facebook has joined hands with the African integrated customer experience company Ajua to automate commercial interactions and customer support for businesses through WhatsApp.

The DRC’s state-owned provider SCPT (Societe Congolaise des Postes et Telecommunications) has signed a US$35 million infrastructure modernisation agreement with LMS Holding.

Ecuador is set to reform its Organic Telecommunications Law following a new decree signed by president Guillermo Lasso.

Microsoft is in the final leg of talks with the Telangana state government in India to establish a data center in the state with an investment outlay of about $2 to 2.25 billion (INR 15,000 crore), local media reports say.

Argentina-based private holding company Grupo Werthein has reached an agreement to acquire AT&T's Vrio digital entertainment services business in Latin America.

Reports from Russia show that In June of this year, Xiaomi was ranked number one in sales in the Russian market.

Eight ISPs in the Brazilian Northeastern states of Paraiba, Pernambuco, Ceara, and Rio Grande do Norte have merged to create Proxxima Telecomunicacoes, with 95,000 subscribers and 350,000 households connected to fibre.

For the second time this month an African MTN operator has announced a digital advertising services partnership, underlining the importance of mobile advertising to modern mobile business models, especially in low-income or low-margin markets.

Oracle Communications' cloud-native converged charging and billing solutions are on their way to Malaysia, Thailand and Pakistan, says the company.

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Uzbekistan’s state provider Uzbektelecom claims to have made significant strides in its push to replace its copper communication networks with fibre-optic infrastructure.

The Bank of Tanzania (BOT) has granted its approval in principle for Cellulant Corporation to operate as a Payment Solution Service Provider (PSSP) in Tanzania.

Indian multinational telecommunications services company Bharti Airtel will collaborate with the semiconductor giant Intel for 5G network development by leveraging vRAN / O-RAN (virtualised/ open radio access network) technologies.

Israeli cybersecurity company Cybereason has announced the acquisition of empow, a security analytics company based in Tel Aviv, Israel. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Ukraine's monopolist telephone company Ukrtelecom JSC has expanded the coverage of its fibre-optic network in the Zaporizhzhia region.

Chilean telecommunications regulator the Subsecretariat of Telecommunications (Subtel) has announced the launch of a public tender for the deployment of a fibre optic project in the country’s Tarapacá region.

Users of fixed and mobile networks in Vietnam are facing connectivity issues once again after the latest round of problems affecting the Asia America Gateway (AAG) cable.

The government of Tamil Nadu has signed MoUs with two firms with the goal of constructing data centres in and near Chennai.