Things are continuing to get tricky for WhatsApp, with further unfavourable responses to the Facebook-owned service’s proposed data use policy.

Days after confirming that Jamaica’s 700MHz tender had been successful, the Minister of Science, Energy and Technology Daryl Vaz has named domestic operator Rock Mobile as the island nation’s third licensee.

Travellers, employees and retailers at Brazil’s São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport (GRU) are now able to access the world’s first at-airport Wi-Fi 6 network using OpenRoaming.

Recent reports in the Tanzanian press indicate that the government hopes to encourage investors to establish mobile phone assembly lines in Tanzania in order to bring affordable smartphones to unserved members of the population.

Ecuador’s state-owned provider CNT (Corporacion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones) has formed an Automatic National Roaming agreement with Telefonica’s local Movistar unit which will see 4G coverage expanded within 18 provinces.

Latin American data centre specialist Odata is to expand into Chile; it plans to build a new facility in Santiago.

The launch of 4G in Liberia’s Grand Cape Mount County by operator Lonestar Cell MTN is undoubtedly going to boost coverage to a number of underserved towns and villages.

The Private Investment Promotion Agency of Peru (Proinversión), one of whose responsibilities is to foster investment in infrastructure projects through public-private partnerships, is asking for bidders for two projects involving the provision of public telecommunications services in Peru’s urban and rural areas.

Jamaica’s Spectrum Management Authority (SMA) has reportedly received multiple offers in its recent 700MHz spectrum tender, and is in the process of deciding a winner.

Following an announcement late last year that it was looking at the strategic and financial merits of a sale and leaseback deal for its tower portfolio, South African operator MTN has been keen to underline the need for a successful bidder to take good care of this asset.

Indonesian fixed and mobile operator XL Axiata has announced it is working with fibre provider FiberStar to expand the reach of its XL HOME fibre-optic network and target several new cities.

Guatemala’s telecom infrastructure has suffered from years of underinvestment from state and provincial governments.

Suriname is the smallest nation on the South American continent, with about 580,000 inhabitants. The only Dutch-speaking nation in South America, it has close affinities with the Caribbean, and is a member of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM).

Haiti’s economic and social indicators remain far lower than the average for Latin America and the Caribbean.

For many years Oman’s mobile market was a duopoly between the incumbent telco Omantel and its challenger Ooredoo Oman.

Capacity wholesaler WIOCC has extended its national hyperscale network in South Africa with an additional 30 Points of Presence (PoPs) along the coastline between Cape Town and Durban.

stc Bahrain, owned by the Saudi Telecom Company, has announced an exclusive offer for fibre customers of internet service at up to six times faster.

The wave of attempts in many countries to bring multiple SIM card use under control is continuing, this time in Togo.

Flow Cayman Islands is aiming to extend its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network across Grand Cayman and the majority of the Sister Islands by the end of 2021.

Vubiquity, part of the Amdocs Media division, has signed a content services partnership agreement with Telefonica Hispam, the Telefonica Group's Latin American business.

Lycamobile, which describes itself as the world’s largest mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), has been awarded a National Telecommunications Operator (NTO) licence in Uganda. It now becomes Uganda’s fourth national operator alongside Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL), MTN and Airtel.

Millicom has selected Parallel Wireless as its partner to deliver the first O-RAN compliant 4G networks in Latin America.

Telco-cloud systems integrator and OSS/BSS software provider Odine Solutions announced Telin, a subsidiary of Telkom Indonesia, deployed Odine's Wholesale Voice Management platform, to enable dynamic management and real-time visibility to manage the rapidly changing demands of the voice industry.

TecBan, which specialises in managing auto-service banking networks, operator Claro and vendor Ericsson have announced the arrival of the first ATM using 5G technology in Latin America.

Movistar Chile’s commercial 5G network is to launch with the help of Nokia technology, according to a recent announcement from the multinational telecommunications, information technology and consumer electronics company.

Solar power is supporting the activities of a number of Orange subsidiaries in Africa and a Huawei data centre in Jordan.

Yet another passive infrastructure sale has been announced – this time in Oman.

America Movil has been ordered to pay $2.2 million to cover the legal costs of its case against the state of Colombia, in which the operator accused the government of illegally expropriating its local subsidiary Comcel.

The increased adoption of cloud services and Microsoft’s ecosystem is expected to create more than 15,800 jobs across the sultanate of Oman by 2024, says new research by market intelligence firm International Data Corporation (IDC).

India-headquartered networking product company Tejas Networks has announced that TelOne, one of Zimbabwe’s major operators, has deployed the Tejas 100G/100G+ coherent dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) solution.