Following yesterday’s promise of a major investment in the Indian market from Google there’s another Indian investment story in the news, this time relating to Apple products manufacturer Foxconn.

Pretty much as expected, official figures indicate that March was a bad month for customer retention as far as Indian operators Bharti Airtel and Vodacom Idea are concerned. Reliance Jio Infocomm, however, is still number one.

Myanmar’s government has ordered the country’s operators to add more sites to a mandated blacklist.

TeleGeography’s CommsUpdate reports that the Supreme Court in Chile has issued a ruling on spectrum holding limits.

Qualcomm has acquired a 0.15% stake in Jio Platforms for INR7.3 billion ($97.1 million).

Operators in Southeast Asia are laying out their deployment plans for the rest of the year, with the Malaysia’s Celcom claiming that it will be ready to launch commercial 5G services as soon as it holds suitable spectrum.

Niger is set to receive funding of US$100 million from the World Bank in order to push digital transformation initiatives.

Indian regulator the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has told two leading operators that they cannot go ahead with recently launched premium plans, according to local press reports.

Armenia’s regulator has cleared Team LLC’s proposed acquisition of Veon’s local unit Beeline.

Kyivstar and Vodafone Ukraine have formed an active and passive infrastructure sharing agreement to boost 4G coverage in rural Ukraine.

We’ve mentioned Vodafone Idea subscriber losses a few times in the past twelve months. Now the Indian press suggests that a continuing decline in customer numbers is worrying the joint venture's partners, the Aditya Birla Group and Vodafone Group.

Iraq’s government will allow the country’s operators to renew their licences for a further five years – but with significant conditions attached.

Novator Partners has acquired a majority holding in Colombian operator Avantel for an undisclosed sum.

Cuba’s sole telecoms provider, the state-owned ETECSA (Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba) has claimed via social media that it now has over one million 4G users.

Filipino fibre broadband provider Converge ICT Solutions has filed for an IPO of up to 35.92 billion pesos ($725 million) on the country’s stock exchange.

Saudi Arabia’s stc has completed its due diligence for a possible acquisition of Vodafone Group’s majority holding in Vodafone Egypt.

Myanmar has completed a nationwide SIM re-registration programme, with millions of SIMs being disconnected by the country’s operators.

Mexico’s Telcel is reportedly acquiring a 50MHz block of 3.5GHz spectrum from local fixed provider Axtel.

Filipino newcomer DITO has been granted an additional six months to complete an obligatory technical audit.

Intel has acquired a stake in Jio Platforms, becoming the latest in a long line of overseas investors in Reliance Industries’ digital unit.

Despite recent news that at least three South African operators have recently launched 5G services, much of the spectrum used is temporary and much remains to be awarded. However, that may be about to change.

The regulators of Senegal and Mauritania have both issued warnings to their respective nation’s operators over subpar Quality of Service (QoS).

Another long-running takeover saga, this time in Costa Rica, has seen a new development.

After the publication on 15 June of the Judicial Reorganisation Plan that made clear Oi’s plans to sell its mobile assets via what it describes as a competitive process, the cash-strapped Brazilian fixed and mobile operator may be much closer to finding a buyer.

The UAE is planning to switch off the country’s 2G networks at the end of 2022.