Liquid Telecom South Africa announced the appointment of Deon Geyser (pictured) as its new CEO effective from next year, as part of plans to reposition the company as a leading digital services provider.

MTN and Airtel’s Ugandan units announced mobile money services between the two networks have resumed after a major hack impacted transactions in the country.

MTN Ghana withdrew its case against regulator the National Communication Authority (NCA), which previously deemed the operator as a dominant operator in Ghana putting a strain on competition in the country.

The reopening of the Indian economy and of some physical retail outlets seems to have had a positive effect on mobile subscriber numbers, which saw a rise of 3.5 million during July. This makes up, in part, for the loss of 3.2 million subscribers in June. The overall base is now 1.144 billion.

Nextel Brazil has been rebranded as Claro-nxt after being acquired by America Movil in December last year.

Hughes India has said that it has been selected by infrastructure provider Bharat Broadband Network Limited (BBNL) and Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd (TCIL) to provide high-speed satellite connectivity to 5,000 remote Indian gram panchayats (roughly translated as village councils).

Digicel revealed it was awarded 10MHz of 700Mhz frequency requested from the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT), a move to enable its recently launched 4G service.

Mauritania’s small population and low economic output has limited the country’s ability to develop sustained growth. There are also practical challenges relating to transparency and tax burdens which have hindered foreign investment.

Ignite Power, a pan-African developer of infrastructure projects, and Spacecom, the operator of the AMOS satellites fleet, have announced a strategic cooperation agreement involving e-health.

South African operator Telkom has announced a new streaming platform that will focus on local content, which it will bring to a number of devices, including mobile phones.

Nokia bagged another contract win announcing it will supply Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom a range of products from its small cell portfolio, to support the operator’s comprehensive 5G coverage.

Rakuten Mobile and STC signed a memorandum of understanding, with the aim to collaborate and improve mobile technologies through the use of open technology and wireless infrastructure.

Bharti Airtel is planning a massive expansion in its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband service offering, according to a number of Indian press reports.

Nokia and Bulgarian operator Vivacom penned a deal to upgrade the latter’s fibre broadband network and connect customers to new heights of high-speed gigabit broadband services, while also laying the foundations for a commercial 5G launch.

The telecom sector in Laos still has numerous issues to address. For a number of years, the rate of regulatory reform has been well behind wider industry development. However, Laos has started to make significant progress in strengthening its telecom infrastructure. As a result, it has attracted greater foreign investment into the sector.

MTN Group and Telecom Infra Project (TIP) have joined forces to support the evolution of MTN’s communication transport infrastructure, which, says MTN, will become a platform for future revenue growth and profitability.

Liberia’s regulator LTA (Liberia Telecommunications Authority) has slammed the “illegal and arbitrary increases” which operators Lonestar Cell-MTN and Orange Liberia have made to their voice and data tariffs.

WorldLink Communications Ltd, the largest internet service provider in Nepal, has announced a partnership with Facebook, or more accurately, Facebook Connectivity,  an umbrella platform for Facebook’s global internet connectivity initiatives, to deliver fast, affordable and reliable Wi-Fi in Nepal.

The Dominican Republic’s president Luis Abinader has called for the country’s regulator to begin tendering for 5G spectrum.

Mexico’s Movistar has reportedly pushed back its deadline for switching off its 2G network.

It’s no surprise that more 5G pilots are under way – most recently in Brazil and Slovakia. However, these two pilots do raise a few questions about what this means for the participants and for spectrum availability.

India and Japan have agreed to cooperate in a number of telecommunications and IT-related areas after a recent ministerial meeting.

In a bid to encourage domestic smartphone manufacturing, India’s government has granted incentives worth INR450 billion ($6.12 billion) to 16 local and overseas firms.

NTT has completed an end-to-end network consolidation project for Indonesian operator PT Smartfren Telecom.

Jordan’s Ahli Bank has implemented Temenos’ cloud-native Infinity solution to help it develop and deploy digital and mobile banking experiences.

Airtel Africa is to expand its strategic partnership with Ericsson to enable 4G coverage in Kenya using Ericsson’s radio access network (RAN) and packet core products for 4G.