Lebanon has reportedly received a multimillion-dollar donation from China to install solar energy for the country’s internet provider, according to Lebanon’s ministry of telecommunications.
India’s Vodafone Idea (Vi) has shot down speculation in the local press that it could be acquired by a US company.
The role of telecommunications in managing traffic, supporting the cars of the future and, potentially, helping the environment has been underlined by a smart parking initiative on the way in Qatar and an electric vehicle (EV) services agreement in Malaysia.
Tecnotree has signed a new contract with internet service provider Briclinks Africa Nigeria, which operates as BTEL.
Service provider du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company, has announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Cinturion, a global provider of scalable, subsea and terrestrial capacity-based network solutions, to land the Centurion subsea cable known as the Trans Europe Asia System (TEAS) in the UAE.
The Ugandan High Court’s commercial division has ruled that Smile Communications and American Tower Corp must settle their dispute via arbitration.
Gambia’s minister for Communication and Digital Economy has confirmed that the country has secured funding for a second submarine cable, as part of the WADI project funded by the World Bank.
Today’s second story from Bahrain takes us from the sky to the sea with the news that telecommunications solutions provider Batelco has selected SubCom, which engineers, manufactures, and installs subsea fibre optic data cables, to build and install a regional subsea cable.
The nationwide 100/200G DWDM backbone network currently being deployed by the National Electricity Company of Senegal will be able to offer network capacity by December 2023.
Brazilian regulator Anatel's board of directors has approved a survey that addresses the very high payments made to the public purse by the telecommunications sector. It will be forwarded to the ministries of finance and communications, bodies responsible for studying and proposing legal changes related to the taxation of the sector.
Two recent agreements, in Bahrain and India, underline the growing importance of the space sector in areas like IoT and the cloud.
Scarcely a day goes by without more developments linked to the ongoing changes in Ethiopia’s mobile communications sector to allow more competition. This time it’s news of a delay relating to the second private telecoms licence – one that will bring a third mobile player into the country.
MTN South Africa has announced a new partnership with Eseye, a global provider of IoT services.
An otherwise uncontroversial recent MoU from Hungary on government and private sector telecoms cooperation nevertheless contained some significant points about taxation policy.
US cloud giants Oracle announced Beyon-owned operator Batelco chose the vendor to upgrade its core IT platforms, in a move to enhance new services and respond to changing market dynamics.
What appears to be a stand-off involving operators, the regulator and the country’s finance ministry over spectrum prices looks set to continue in Mexico.
Only days after the operator announced the roll-out of commercial 5G services in Addis Ababa, comes news that Ethio Telecom is planning satellite network upgrades with the help of satellite networking technology, solutions and services company Gilat.
Theft of operator-owned equipment has been in the news in both Botswana and South Africa this week as Botswana Telecommunications Corporation’s (BTC) deals with copper theft and Vodacom with battery theft.
The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (CRAN) admitted it is facing major hurdles in registering subscribers before its deadline, as only 29% have been signed up.
Colombia’s Ministry of ICT MinTic revealed it held a crisis meeting to manage Tigo Colombia’s financial woes in a bid to prevent the operator from ceasing mobile service.
Colombia’s telecoms regulator announced operators Claro, Movistar, WOM and Tigo agreed to invest a total of COP3.5 billion (US$876m) into connectivity infrastructure, a move to connect a further 12 million new users and increase the number of connected citizens.
The growth in the use of 5G for industry-specific networks continues with news that operator Orange Jordan has established the first private 5G network in Jordan for Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT).
MTN Group announced its Nigeria unit acquired more spectrum in the 2.6GHz frequency to enhance capacity and customer experience.
MTN’s decision to transfer the operation of its towers in Nigeria from IHS Towers to rival American Tower Corporation (ATC), was the last straw for investment firm Blackwells Capital which is calling for the resignation of IHS chairman and CEO Sam Darwish.
Telefónica de Argentina, one of the country's largest telephone and internet service operators, has selected IT infrastructure services provider Kyndryl to accelerate the modernisation of its technology environment.
Operator Airtel Nigeria has chosen Watt Renewable Corporation, an independently owned provider of hybrid solar solutions, to deliver over 32MW installed capacity of solar photovoltaics (PV) and storage across Nigeria.
Trans Americas Fibre System the name behind the new TAM-1 submarine cable system (formerly known as Trans Caribbean Fibre System) and Xtera, a provider of subsea and telecom technology, have announced that initial construction has begun on TAM-1.
Operator MTN Nigeria has confirmed that American Tower Corporation will take over its Nigerian tower operations from IHS Towers in 2025.
Provider of water and process technology solutions Aquatech Systems, headquartered in India, and Saudi Arabia-based data centre developer and operator DataVolt have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for water cooling and recycling technology cooperation and services.
State-owned operator Ethio Telecom has announced that it has rolled out commercial 5G services in Addis Ababa.
Satcoms company Astranis is partnering with Mexican ISP Apco Networks on what it describes as a two-satellite programme to bring affordable broadband internet to five million people.
The Republic of Congo’s telecoms watchdog issued a formal notice to Airtel and MTN regarding the failure to register an adequate rate of SIM cards to subscribers.
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