Eutelsat Communications is expanding its use of the Express Wi-Fi platform in partnership with Facebook to provide broadband services via satellite across several regions in Sub-Saharan Africa.

BT Group’s Egyptian unit has been granted a licence to provide connectivity services and information transfer to institutions and companies through its international networks.

Helios Towers, which last year acquired the passive infrastructure assets of Senegal’s number two mobile player Free Senegal for $188.2 million, has announced a major investment in the country.

Telecoms services are being affected – directly or indirectly – by authorities in Ghana and Uganda looking for ways to raise revenue.

Nigerian regulator the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and satcoms provider Nigerian Communications Satellite (NigComSat) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the use of C-band spectrum to boost 5G services in Nigeria.

Benin has begun tendering for a new mobile network operator, with foreign firms invited to participate on the grounds that they already operate a telecoms network.

Colombian operator WOM has implemented Whale Cloud’s full-stack BSS suite to speed up its digital transformation and improve customer experience.

According to Nigerian press reports, Nigerians now have another new deadline by which to link their National Identification Numbers (NINs) to their SIM cards.

Scala Data Centres, a Brazil-based hyper-scalable data centre platform, has announced an agreement to acquire data centre and colocation operations in Campinas in the southeast of Brazil from Algar Tech, a company that offers business process solutions.

WhatsApp money transfer is back on track in Brazil. The Facebook-owned messaging service relaunched its person-to-person money transfer services in Brazil early this week.

Indonesian digital telco Indosat Ooredoo has deployed Ericsson's Operations Engine (EOE) framework, incorporating artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to monitor and tune network parameters to upgrade its 4G radio network.

Telefonica Empresas, the B2B brand of the leading Spanish operator, has been awarded the contract for the final stretch of Chile’s National Fibre Optic (FON) initiative.

Operator MTN Rwanda has received approval from the country's Central Bank to set up a fintech subsidiary, Mobile Money Rwanda Ltd.

Despite the customer losses reported here earlier today, MTN Nigeria is still investing in the future, notably with the recent introduction of Remita, a leading Nigerian electronic payment platform.

Citing a large demand for capacity, ODATA, already one of the leading data centre providers in Latin America, has announced plans to speed up the expansion of its data centre rollout in the region where it has been active since it began operations in 2015.

Nokia has agreed a deal to supply 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) equipment to Ooredoo Kuwait for the operator’s customer premises.

OPPO, a smartphone manufacturer based in China, has been expanding its footprint globally and has announced that it has entered two new markets - Chile and Colombia.

Bangladesh ended March with more than 174.6 million mobile phone subscribers, up from 173.3 million in February, revealed the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC).

The Superintendence-General (SG) of the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade) has approved without restrictions the purchase of the towers of Telxius Torres (a subsidiary of Telefónica / Vivo) in Brazil by American Tower.

Brazilian operator Telefônica Brasil, known as Vivo, has announced the launch of Vivo Pay, which is described as a fully digital account that allows for banking transactions directly through an application.

Brazil’s Oi is now offering its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) service in Sao Paulo.

Hard on the heels of its acquisition of Millicom’s Tanzanian operations, Axian Group has announced a major investment in the country and is apparently looking at more investment opportunities in the region.

Ethio Telecom, the – for now – monopoly telecommunications provider in Ethiopia, has announced the roll-out of a mobile money service.

The number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 1,168.66 million in the third quarter of 2020 to 1,173.83 million in the last quarter of 2020, registering a growth rate of 0.44%. This reflects a Year-On-Year (Y-O-Y) growth rate of 0.12% over the same quarter of the last year.

India's 4G mobile data subscribers are expected to rise to 820 million by the end of March 2022 - higher than in the last financial year (April to March) despite a Covid spike.

Nigerian operator 9Mobile has selected digital business support systems (BSS) company Tecnotree to replace its wholesale and carrier billing solution.

The African telecommunications giant MTN Group has confirmed yesterday’s news that it is involved in a bid for a telecoms licence in Ethiopia.

As in so many other regions, data centre openings are in the news in Latin America, most recently in Bolivia and Chile.

Cambodia's telecommunications service provider Smart Axiata has announced it has deployed 68 new network base station sites in the Siem Reap province as part of its USD 90 million investment plan in 2021 to expand and upgrade its network across the Kingdom.

Operator stc Bahrain has announced plans to launch what it calls a first-of-a-kind camouflaged small cell solution across Bahrain.