RGK Mobile has announced a new direct mobile operator billing agreement with BITE, a telecommunications company serving subscribers in Lithuania and Latvia.

MegaFon has signed a cooperation agreement with Rostelecom to jointly develop 5G networks.

Intracom Telecom has supplied Zakład Obsługi Systemu Monitoringu (ZOSM), the Monitoring System Services Company of the Polish capital Warsaw, with its latest generation Point-to-point and Point-to-Multipoint wireless systems.

Slovak Telekom has gone live with Netcracker's converged Revenue Management solution for its residential and VSE/SoHo customers.

Peter-Service and Rostelecom are launching a project to implement a unified CRM system for Russia’s B2B segment.

Ericsson has been selected by RCS & RDS to modernise its mobile network in Romania, allowing its Romanian subscribers to enjoy enhanced mobile broadband services.

Mobile payment company Fortumo and mobile operator Telenor are launching direct carrier billing for consumers in Serbia.

Telia has hit out at the Latvian government’s rejection of its proposal to combine local mobile operator LMT with fixed provider Lattelecom.

Russia’s MTS has selected Ericsson to upgrade its network with software features that will be continuously developed during the next three years.

Polish operator Netia has selected Comarch’s Fault Management central network monitoring system to detect network issues and service incidents promptly.

Orange Polska, the leading Polish telecommunication provider, has chosen Comarch as its OSS software vendor to support Orange’s OSS4TTH project.

Huawei reclaimed its second place spot in the CEE (Central & Eastern Europe) smartphone market from Apple over the last quarter.

Orange Poland has implemented virtualised versions of Openet’s Policy Manager and Evolved Charging solutions.

The motives behind Polish operator Play’s upcoming IPO have been called into question by some of the country’s leading financial analysts.

Russia’s communications minister Nikolai Nikiforov has stated that it would be counter-productive to push back a new law that would oblige operators to store all user-generated data for six months.

Poland’s Play is offloading PLN5.3 billion (€1.3 billion) of shares in its recently announced IPO.

The government of Poland has awarded a tender for the design, build-out and operation of advanced fibre optic networks to Nokia in partnership with Infracapital, the infrastructure arm of M&G Investments.

Croatia’s Hrvatski Telekom has selected Netcracker’s Billing solution as one of the key platforms for its large-scale IT transformation.

Telia could sell off some of its 25% stake in Russia’s MegaFon as it streamlines its focus to its core markets of the Nordics and Baltics.

Polish IoT specialist Netemera is deploying the country’s first nationwide low-power, wide-area (LPWA) network as part of its “Network for Machines”.

Russian CSP TransTeleCom has shifted all its international backbone traffic to a Long Haul DWDM network.

Slovenian operator Telekom Slovenije is partnering with Fortumo to launch direct carrier billing on the Google Play app store.

VimpelCom has tapped Nokia to supply managed services for its fixed, mobile and transport network operations for the next five years.

Telia Carrier has established two new points of presence (PoP) in St. Petersburg, Russia to meet customer demand.

Georgian mobile operator Geocell has selected Peter-Service to deliver its billing solution.

PacketLight Networks has partnered with Avelacom to build out their high speed network from London to Moscow with PacketLight’s optical transport solutions.

Deutsche Telekom’s Romanian operations are reportedly up for sale, with the operator believed to be holding talks to sell off its fixed and mobile units separately.

Latvijas Mobilais Telefons (LMT) is launching direct carrier billing on Google Play with Fortumo.