The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) confirmed Airtel Nigeria, MTN Nigeria and wholesaler Mafab Communications as the three qualifying bidders for its scheduled 3.5GHz spectrum auction.

Eutelsat and Vodacom Tanzania PLC have signed an agreement for packaged services to bring connectivity to underserved regions of Tanzania, leveraging the EUTELSAT KONNECT high-throughput satellite.

Data centres and the cloud are again in the news in Latin America thanks to announcements from Google in Chile and Codisa in El Salvador.

Could a new partnership be a boost for the Internet of Things – or at least the LoRaWAN version of IoT – in the Middle East and North Africa?

Tajikistan’s Babilon-Mobile, which operates as Babilon-M, has selected Baicells as its provider for hundreds of new 4G and 5G base stations to be deployed imminently.

Altice Dominicana has begun deploying its 3.5GHz 5G network in the Dominican Republic.

Liquid Intelligent Technologies has partnered with UNICEF to support the Giga Initiative – a collaboration between UNICEF and the ITU aimed at connecting schools across Africa.

MTN Benin confirmed that it will have invested XOF10 billion (US$17.2 million) into the market this year by the end of December.

Bangladeshi operator Robi Axiata is joining Fortumo’s payments platform.

Ahead of the nationwide introduction of Mobile Number Portability (MNP), Uruguay’s mobile operators have signed contracts with the appointed MNP database administrator.

What does the purchase earlier this month of nearly 96 percent of Mexican facilities-based telecommunications provider Maxcom Telecomunicaciones by US-headquartered digital infrastructure service provider Transtelco mean for the Mexican fibre market?

Airtel Lanka is set to extend its 4G services throughout Sri Lanka via a new network expansion initiative.

Nepal’s National Telecommunications Authority (NTA) has nullified the Basic Telecommunications Services licence of Nepal Satellite Telecom (NST) due to outstanding regulatory fees.

A consortium of Israeli businesses has made an offer of US$300 million for S.B. Israel Telecom’s 27% stake in local operator Partner Communications.

Nepal’s National Telecommunications Authority (NTA) has at long last cleared state-owned operator Nepal Telecom to trial 5G services in the market.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Colombia’s ICT ministry, MinTIC Colombia, has indicated that it is planning to publish a draft decree for public consultation on issues relating to spectrum and next-generation technology.