Service provider Claro Chile, a subsidiary of America Movil, the largest telecommunications group in Latin America, and cyan AG, a provider of intelligent cybersecurity solutions, have announced a cooperative agreement that, says cyan, opens up the Latin American market and is an important milestone in its growth strategy.

The announcement, late last week, of the largest recycled water supply scheme of its kind in Malaysia to date underlines both the challenge data centre growth offers to water supply and the growing urgency of attempts to meet it.

Riyadh Air, Saudi Arabia's new premium international airline, has selected satellite communications company Viasat to provide full, fast, free in-flight connectivity for all Riyadh Air loyalty members on initial Boeing 787 Dreamliner factory-installed deliveries.

Pan-African service provider Airtel and tower company IHS, Africa’s largest telecommunications infrastructure provider, have unveiled a plan to expand network reach in Zambia.

A dispute over a real estate loan that left operator MTN Cameroon unable to get its hands on over US$20 million worth of assets may finally be over.

There’s good news – potentially – for African data centre development with the announcement from Raxio Group, a sub-Saharan African data centre platform, that it has signed an agreement for US$100 million in financing from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group.

The GSMA has elected MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita as its deputy chair, following the appointment of Bharti Airtel vice chairman Gopal Vittal as chair.

Wireless Logic, a provider of IoT solutions, has announced its acquisition of Arqia, Brazil’s largest independent authorised MVNO.

Vodacom South Africa has instituted what it calls a community-based model to secure towers against battery theft. The community of Kamberg in the coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal has partnered with Vodacom KwaZulu-Natal region to implement additional security measures at the operator’s base station sites in the area. 

Satellite services provider Q-KON has reportedly brought South African telecoms player Vox onboard as a reseller of its Twoobii Super Smart Satellite Solutions for enterprise customers powered by Eutelsat OneWeb’s LEO satellite network.

Tunisie Telecom and Ericsson announced on Friday that the operator has commenced offering NSA (non-standalone) 5G services that partly leverage TDD spectrum to deliver multi-gigabit speeds to customers.

Moroccan operators Maroc Telecom and Inwi have announced the signing of what is described as an expanded partnership agreement aimed at accelerating the deployment of fibre optic and 5G technologies across Morocco.

Oman’s telecoms regulator has approved Starlink to provide broadband internet services across the country using its low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation.

Satellite-direct-to-device (D2D) provider, Lynk Global has had a busy week with the announcement of successful tests of its service in Turkey followed by further positive news – this time in South Africa.

Vodacom Lesotho has expanded its M-Pesa mobile money service to all users in the country, regardless of which mobile network they subscribe to, in a bid to increase financial inclusion.

Zoho, an Indian multinational technology company that makes computer software and web-based business tools, says it has teamed up with online B2B enterprise marketplace Loita Business, part of the pan-African Loita Group, to support small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in Zimbabwe, Zambia and South Africa.

South African operator Telkom has entered the country’s mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) market through a partnership with a mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) platform provider.

Bharti Airtel paid INR59.85 billion ($697.5 million) to India’s Department of Telecom to fully repay a high-interest loan used for spectrum at auction last year.

Telefónica Ecuador and Telefónica Móviles del Uruguay are extending their existing partnership with Netcracker.

Bharti Airtel has announced its role as the landing partner for the 2Africa Pearls cable in India, a subsea network connecting Africa, India, and Europe via the Middle East. 

Ethio Telecom has announced a meeting with financial giant Mastercard to explore how the two companies can leverage technology to upgrade digital financial services.

ACES, a leading Saudi Arabian neutral host operator which provides in-building solutions, Wi-Fi-DAS, fibre optics, data centres and managed services, has announced a collaboration in a strategic open RAN partnership with RANsemi, a British wireless semiconductor innovator specialising in 5G open RAN baseband technologies.

Visiosoft, a South African technology company, says it is working with French firm Kinéis, a space company, satellite operator and global connectivity provider for IoT and automatic identification systems, to bridge the connectivity gap using a satellite Internet of Things (IoT) solution.

Alibaba.com, a major B2B e-commerce platform headquartered in China, and Kwik, a leading digital platform for logistics services in Nigeria, have announced a partnership to support Nigerian exporters.

Smarter trade is a continuing aim of digitisation efforts by industries across the world, as shown by two recent deals involving natural gas supply and port management led by companies in the Middle East.

In what appears to be a first for the country, the Somalia Payment Switch (SPS) payments infrastructure under the Central Bank of Somalia has introduced an instant payment system that includes support for QR payments.

WIOCC Group subsidiary Open Access Data Centres (OADC) reportedly plans to invest up to US$240 million to expand the capacity of its new data centre in Lagos from 1.5MW to 24MW by 2027.

Angolan operator Unitel has strengthened its 4G network in multiple locations to enhance voice and data services.

Troubled Chilean operator WOM has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, with CEO Chris Bannister pledging to steer the company forward.

The widely reported sale by international service provider Telefonica of its Argentinian division to Telecom Argentina for US$1.245 billion, a deal agreed in February, is now on hold, apparently by order of Argentina’s government.