Israel-based mobile technology company Cellwize raised $32 million in its latest round of funding led by Intel Capital and Qualcomm Ventures, raising to date $56.5 million from investors to penetrate new markets with its automated 5G network tool.

A Brazilian court announced the long-awaited auction of Oi Movel will take place next month in Rio de Janeiro, where its three main rivals plan to acquire a stake.

Safaricom pledged to cover the whole of Kenya with its 4G network by the end of this year by ramping up investments despite a dip in its H1 financial results.

The popular shorthand for e-commerce – clicks and mortar – has again been proved relevant with recently announced plans for new Amazon logistics centres in Brazil to support growing demand for the e-commerce giant’s service.

Orange SA has announced plans to buy a controlling stake in a major Romanian telecommunications company.

Brazil’s largest operators snubbed a senior US official who advocated the exclusion of Huawei gear from the country’s 5G market, an apparent blow to the US government’s campaign against the Chinese vendor.

Airtel Africa announced plans to shed 4,500 towers across five countries to aid the company in reducing its $3.5 billion debt, and prepare for upcoming repayment dates.

Telefonica’s Colombian unit Movistar chose Nokia to modernise its operations support systems (OSS), to expand the provisioning of mobile and fixed services.

Haiti is the latest country to launch a push for SIM registration, following reports of attempts in a number of countries around the world to keep track of SIM ownership.

Vodafone Egypt and Telecom Egypt bought fresh spectrum for a total of $1.17 billion, as both operators push on to upgrade services by boosting their respective networks.

Liberia introduced fresh SIM and RUIM registration regulations in a bid to improve national security and pave the way for new services such as mobile money.

Vodafone Romania called for government investment in the telecoms sector which the operator claimed is at a crossroads in the eastern European country.

Romanian-owned operator DIGI Hungary collected 80,000 petitions against its exclusion from Hungary’s next 5G auction.

Spectrum allocation and coverage targets in the Ethiopian telecoms market were detailed as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, looked to press ahead with plans to open up the traditionally closed-off telecoms market.

After a number of years of threatening action on the issue the Mozambique telecommunications regulator has told mobile operators that unregistered SIMs will be blocked after 6 November.

Brazil’s National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) removed tax-based regulatory hurdles around IoT and M2M applications, a move for the segment to have lower taxes than telecommunications to spur its growth.

The GSMA, which represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, has announced the signing of three memorandum of understanding (MoU) agreements, in order, it says, to help foster and accelerate digital nation opportunities.

Ericsson announced it will supply Telia with gear for its 5G deployment in Lithuania, the fourth contract to be awarded to the vendor by the operator in the Nordics and Baltics.

Global investment company KKR announced it will invest in telecoms infrastructure company Pinnacle Towers, a move to capitalise on growing connectivity demand in Southeast Asia.

Employees of Kosovo Telecom threatened the government with protests and disruption to telecoms services, if the government does not take action against a private company it accuses of funnelling money.

Tunisia tipped 2022 to be the year the country launches commercial 5G services.

Reliance Industries raised $1 billion in investment from two sovereign wealth funds, a move for the oil-reliant company to diversify from its staple business.

Following Bharti Airtel’s recently announcement that it will leave the Ghanaian market, local press reports suggest that the completion of the sale of the former AirtelTigo – Airtel's mobile communications business in Ghana – is imminent.

Philippines operator DITO Telecommunity said it is on target to launch commercial services in March next year, saying it is on track to pass a government technical audit.

NEC Corporation India has been selected by Saharanpur Smart City Limited (SSCL) as the master system integrator for implementation of the integrated command and control centre and smart components in this major smart city project in Uttar Pradesh.

Veon announced it reached it an agreement to sell its Armenian unit to Team LLC, putting an end to months of dispute amongst rivals.

Orange stated its Guinea unit suffered a cut to its international communications for three days without any prior knowledge to it happening, as the country was rocked with protests.

Vodacom said it had seen a surge in base station vandalism and battery thefts in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, urging communities to aid it in preventing connectivity switching off in the region.

Network testing company Ookla reported UAE-based operator Etisalat had the fastest mobile data speeds in 2020 so far.

AT&T Mexico has returned a portion of its 800MHz spectrum to the country’s regulator in a bid to reduce its costs.

Telecom Egypt tapped Ericsson to leverage the vendor’s technology to migrate its international gateway, in a bid to accelerate services and commence entry into the IoT market.