Malaysia’s communications minister revealed the government has reached a deal outlining stakes in its wholesale 5G company Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB) for the nation’s five MNOs.
Ghana’s National Communications Authority (NCA) is taking “a significant step towards correcting market imbalances” with the implementation of technology neutrality for non-dominant players.
Costa Rica has confirmed that it plans to commence its multi-band 5G auction on 23rd October 2023.
Safaricom announced plans to add 595 new 5G sites by the end of March 2023, as it aims to push ahead of rivals in Kenya and capitalise on rising connectivity demand.
Ethio Telecom revealed in its 2022/23 year profit more than doubled to ETB18.8 billion (US$344m) along with rising subscriber numbers and revenue, as the operator is poised for a stake sale.
Senegal’s telecoms authority revealed it had provisionally given Sonatel (Orange Senegal) a 5G licence, after concluding a call for tender to extend concessions for operators.
Israel’s Pelephone – the mobile unit of Bezeq – has been awarded 800MHz of spectrum in the 26GHz band by the committee in charge of the tender process.
Freshly merged Malaysian operator CelcomDigi will buy Huawei and ZTE equipment for its nationwide network integration and modernisation project.
Latin America and Caribbean-focused multilateral development bank IDB Invest says it has closed a standby letter of credit for about US$47.5 million to service provider Colombia Móvil (aka Tigo) to support the expansion and upgrade of telecommunications infrastructure in small municipalities in Colombia.
Uganda has reversed a parliamentary decision to abandon a new tax law that imposes a 5% levy on income earned locally by foreign companies. The tax law had been debated and dropped in May. However, President Yoweri Museveni has now signed a bill that includes the levy clause.
Malaysian operator Maxis announced it will sign an access agreement with state 5G wholesaler Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB) to advance the country’s 5G rollout and remain competitive against rivals who have signed.
Oi Brasil, the cash-strapped Brazilian operator, has now seen a significant influx of revenue after completing the sale of selected tower infrastructure to Empreendimentos e Participacoes, an affiliate of comms infrastructure group Highline.
Belgium-based operator group Proximus acquired a 58% stake in Indian cloud enterprise company Route Mobile for INR59.2 billion (US$721 million), a strategic move to enhance its digital communications.
Nokia trimmed its sales and profit forecast for 2023 blaming a tightening economic landscape for cutting customer budgets.
Citing the need for Kenya to be an attractive investment digital hub, Kenya is repealing a ruling that would have made meant only companies with at least 30% substantive Kenyan ownership, either corporate or individual, would be licensed to provide ICT services.
A decision by Croatia’s regulator to remove restrictions on dominant player Hrvatski Telekom (HT) looks set to provoke a backlash from smaller competitors in the country’s fixed broadband sector.
Chilean operator Entel will begin gradually shutting down its 2G network in 2024 to focus on developing its 4G and 5G networks.
MTN tapped Ericsson to deploy sites to deliver affordable mobile broadband coverage to remote locations in Benin.
Helios Towers is one the biggest towercos in Africa, and since its IPO four years ago the firm has dramatically expanded its footprint and portfolio. It has also strongly pushed a sustainability agenda while continuing to drive increased coverage across some of the most challenging markets in the continent. We caught up with the firm’s CEO Tom Greenwood to discuss how it has achieved this.
Vodacom announced it will invest ZAR500 million (US$27.4m) into its network and power backup across the Eastern Cape of South Africa in its 2023/24 financial year, as part of plans to expand its 5G network.
SIGET (Superintendencia General de Electricidad y Telecomunicaciones), the telecommunications regulating agency in El Salvador, has issued a new resolution which aligns it with the growing number of countries that have completely freed up the 6GHz band for use in WiFi 6E networks.
US-based neutral host and telecom infrastructure company Torrecom plans to expand its tower portfolio in Latin America with the help of multilateral development bank IDB Invest.
Orange Jordan claimed to be the first to launch commercial 5G services in the country and was the second Orange unit in the Middle East and North Africa to deploy next-generation connectivity.
Satellite operators Rivada Space Networks and IEC Telecom have announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to enable what are described as innovative connectivity solutions for a number of purposes – including remote and humanitarian communications.
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) responded to a media report criticising the body for not enforcing cheaper broadband services, since a new mandate took effect in March.
Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, has withdrawn from a U$19.5 billion semiconductor joint venture with Indian conglomerate Vedanta.
Challenger Guyanese operator ENet has launched a range of new mobile services unlimited data, calls and text on its 4G/5G network nationwide to compete against its large-scale rivals.
Axiata Group, Malaysia’s biggest wireless carrier by revenue, has a number of potential strategies under review to reduce its debt.
Axian Telecom revealed Telco Oi chief executive Pierre-Antoine Legagneur took over as head of Togocom.
Recent spectrum-related events in Ecuador appear to have worried the GSMA, the global association gathering the world’s biggest mobile operators. It has claimed that the ongoing suspension of spectrum renewals puts key investments at risk for the future of the country.
Telkom South Africa ended talks with the consortium led by former CEO Sipho Maseko seeking to purchase a controlling stake in the operator.
Georgia is set to commence 5G auctions next month after the country’s Communications Commission approved the sale of airwaves in the 700MHz, 800MHz, 1800MHz, 2600MHz and 3.5GHz bands.
Kyrgyzstan’s Fund for State Property Management is set to auction off 100% of shares in the state-owned mobile operator MEGA.
Orange and e& are reportedly considering bids for the 45% stake on offer in Ethiopia-owned operator Ethio Telecom, Bloomberg reported.
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