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Thuraya, a subsidiary of Space42, the UAE-based AI-powered spacetech company, has announced the commercial rollout of its next-generation mobile

Africa’s coastlines are becoming gateways to a digital future. A wave of new subsea cables is reshaping connectivity across the continent - but

ONATi, the incumbent telecommunications service provider in French Polynesia, has migrated the management of its interconnect voice traffic and

Satellite technology company Avanti Communications announced on Tuesday it has expanded its partnership with Türksat with a new agreement that

SES and Africa Mobile Networks (AMN) announced on Tuesday they have successfully upgraded over 200 telecoms sites across Côte d’Ivoire to deliver

The United Arab Emirates regulator, The Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA), has announced the launch of what

Troubled Brazilian operator Oi has been declared bankrupt by a Rio de Janeiro court. Failure to comply with a court-approved restructuring plan,

UN partners, including the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and GSMA, announced on Monday they are working on expanding efforts in

Pan-African telecoms network services provider Paratus Group announced on Monday it has launched “Paratus 500”, a service that leverages all of

Dhiraagu said on Monday that it has inaugurated its third data centre in the Maldives – this one being a certified Tier III facility in N.

A number of major data centre operators in the Philippines have come together to form what is described as a unified alliance that aims to

BENEFIT, a leading Bahrain company in fintech and electronic financial transactions, licensed by the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) as an

It’s a major news day for data centre developments in Nigeria, and specifically Lagos, a city for which two leading names in Africa, Equinix and

Paratus Botswana announced on Friday it is extending its national network coverage to Tati Siding, near Francistown, as part of its broader

Morocco’s three main telcos – Maroc Telecom, Orange Maroc and Inwi – officially launched 5G services in the country on Friday, mainly in urban

Veon Group’s Beeline Kazakhstan has partnered with Starlink to deliver mobile connectivity across Kazakhstan, extending service to remote regions

Safaricom reported a 52.1% increase in group net income to KES 42.8 billion for the half year ended September 2025, driven by solid

An interesting memorandum of understanding (MoU) has just been announced in Brazil. It aims to support power infrastructure at the Rio AI City

Digital transformation projects focused on younger end users have been highlighted this week in West Africa where operator Orange Liberia has

Costa Rican telecommunications regulator Sutel has formally rejected a proposed merger between two of the nation’s largest private operators,

Umniah by Beyon has signed a five-year agreement naming Ericsson as its exclusive radio access network (RAN) supplier for 3G, 4G and 5G

Satellite communications provider Globalstar has announced the addition of eight new six-metre C-3 tracking antennas to its ground stations

UAE-based Space42 announced on Wednesday that its next-gen Thuraya-4 satellite is now globally available for customers in Europe, Africa, Central

Pan-African telecoms and network services provider Paratus Group announced on Wednesday it has expanded its operations into Uganda via a joint

Bharti Airtel was given the greenlight to increase its shares in Indus Towers by up to 5%, strengthening its control in India’s largest tower

Axian Telecom’s fibre subsidiary, Axian Telecom Fibre, has completed the acquisition of 99.63% stake in Wananchi Group, a fixed broadband

Last week, Hurricane Melissa devastated Jamaica and swept through other islands in the Caribbean including Cuba, leaving a trail of destruction

Ericsson announced on Tuesday that it has renewed its partnership with Bahrainian telco Batelco by Beyon, which will deploy Ericsson’s latest RAN

There is bad news for operators in both Chad and Zambia, whose telecommunications regulators have highlighted what they see as serious quality of

Bahrain-headquartered technology group Beyon has announced the establishment of its second fully green solar-powered data centre with the

Tanzania has been accused of shutting down internet access and restricting social media around recent elections that saw protests accusing the

Orange submarine cable subsidiary Orange Marine announced the construction of two new cable ships to boost the resilience of digital

Digital Realty has launched ACR2, its first data centre in Ghana, that it says will serve as a critical hub in Ghana’s digital ecosystem by

Ericsson said on Monday it has successfully completed MTN Nigeria’s first field trial of a triple-band FDD massive MIMO radio that integrates the

Two submarine cables – one linking the UAE and Kenya and the other linking Tunisia with France – have made news recently, the former thanks to a

Problems continue to pile up for troubled Brazilian operator Oi, with news late last week that rival operator Claro is to take over a

Automation and orchestration specialist Inmanta expanded its sovereign cloud automation offering to Africa, aiming to help telecom operators and

Smart utilities are again in the news after InfraX, a subsidiary of Digital DEWA, the digital arm of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, and

Wingu Africa, a specialist provider of carrier-neutral, Tier III-standard data centres in East Africa, has entered a strategic partnership with

Ukrainian telco Kyivstar said on Friday that it’s preparing to expand its testing of Starlink’s Direct-to-Cell (D2C) satellite service to all

Qatar-based Ooredoo Group announced it is collaborating with Ericsson-led open network API joint venture Aduna to make its open network APIs

Mozambique’s government has made 5G coverage compulsory in all provincial capitals, while scrapping its earlier plan to auction spectrum licences

Millicom has completed its US$380 million acquisition of Telefonica’s operations in Ecuador, marking another major milestone in the group’s

There is a shortage of high-quality teaching in schools across the globe, but a new, innovative model is equipping teachers with the tools they

Ecuador’s state-owned operator Corporación Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (CNT) has launched the country’s first commercial 5G network in

It may come as a surprise to some readers to hear that, more than three years after the telecommunications regulator ...

Two MoUs announced in the past week underline the ongoing focus of many major corporations in telecommunications and energy supply on pursuing –

MTN MoMo South Africa is expanding its strategic collaboration with Mastercard in a bid to increase access to digital financial services and

Saudi Arabian telco stc Group announced on Wednesday it has signed a strategic agreement with LEO satellite operator AST SpaceMobile to develop

Singapore-headquartered global payment platform Thunesand pan-African financial institution Ecobank Group signed an agreement on Wednesday to