The Rio Grande do Sul group Brasil TecPar, owner of the brands Amigo Internet and Ávato, has acquired five more ISPs and surpassed 300,000 customers.

Having announced a preliminary agreement in June, Hungary-based IT and ICT company 4iG has now confirmed that it is to buy Israeli satellite operator Spacecom.

Airtel Tanzania has partnered with the country’s I&M Bank to launch a mobile overdraft service.

In what is said to be a first for Sudan, a local company called alsoug has announced the close of a $5 million fundraising effort to establish a national payments network enabling quick, easy and safe transactions for all Sudanese.

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has issued NGMS (Next Generation Mobile Services) spectrum licences to the winners of its recent spectrum auctions for the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and Gilgit Baltistan (GB) regions.

The name of the UK company investing in troubled Gambian operator Comium and, importantly, promising to rid it of its outstanding debts has been revealed. It is Monty Mobile.

Paltel the leading telecommunication company in Palestine, has selected Juniper Networks, which specialises in secure, AI-driven networks, to upgrade and develop parts of its network and infrastructure.

Angola’s newest operator Africell will use wholesale IP transit and connectivity solutions from Angola Cables.

Route Mobile’s UK subsidiary is acquiring Masivian (Masiv), which provides cloud communication platform services to enterprises in Latin America.

Group Vivendi Africa (GVA) has confirmed that it will begin offering its CanalBox FTTH services in Gabon’s second city of Port-Gentil by mid-2022.

Brazil's national telecommunications agency ANATEL has approved the framework authorizing using a TV White Area (TVWS).

It seems that reports of the demise of Gambian operator Comium may have been premature. The Gambian media is now suggesting that, following a suspension of its activities imposed by the Public Utilities and Regulatory Authority (PURA) until 4 November, Comium may be planning to pay back its debts.

The years of civil war and destruction to infrastructure continue to have a toll on the telecoms sector in Syria. Although over the years the major mobile service providers Syriatel and MTN Syria have endeavoured to restore and rebuild damaged networks, the operating environment has been difficult.

Saudi Arabia’s telecom and ICT sectors continue to benefit from the range of programs aimed at diversifying the economy away from a dependence on oil, and establishing a wider digital transformation over the next decade.

Qatar had developed a mature telecom sector which has been able to absorb the additional data demands made on it during the pandemic. Mobile services based on LTE are universally available, and this has helped the two operators Ooredoo Qatar and Vodafone Qatar to migrate to 5G. In combination with a strong fibre rollout, the country is aiming to provide gigabit services nationally.

Sahel Telecom, a new wireless broadband provider, has launched services in Mauritania.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has slated the country’s 5G spectrum auctions for 13^th December.

Brazilian fibre provider EB Fibra has changed its name to Alloha Fibra and has appointed named Alexander Moshe as its new CEO.

Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed that the tech giant will invest $1 billion into Africa across the next five years.

All 1700MHz/2100MHz AWS and 1900MHz PCS frequencies went unsold at the latest auction of unused 4G frequencies in Mexico.

STC and Ericsson have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore sustainable initiatives to power the operator’s network infrastructure with intelligent and renewable energy.

Telenor subsidiary Grameenphone has selected NEC to supply equipment for the modernisation of its network in Bangladesh.

Viasat, a global communications company, announced Ka-band In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) coverage expansion for its Business Aviation services across Brazil, the world's third-largest Business Aviation market.

Bharti Airtel and Ericsson have commenced what they claim as India’s first rural 5G network trial.

Bangladesh’s state operator Teletalk has revealed its goal of launching 5G services before the end of 2021.

Eutelsat Communications is back in the news again after the satellite operator was selected by African digital solutions provider Globacom to bring satellite broadband to underserved regions of Nigeria.

Qatari multinational telecommunications company Ooredoo has selected Ericsson for deploying its Business Support Systems (BSS) solutions under a five-year frame agreement for several operating companies across the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia.

In what could be the largest IPO in Uganda to date, MTN Uganda has announced its intention to float 20 percent of its shares on the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE).

Two Saudi companies have been given a green light to develop data centres in one of Saudi Arabia’s newest – and possibly smartest – cities.

SICO  Technology, described as Egypt’s first smartphone maker, plans to get into the African electronics market assembling handsets for other companies, according to recent news reports.

Nepal has seen widespread fixed broadband outages resulting from a clash between the state-owned Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) and several of the country’s ISPs.