The director general and two board members of Lebanese state-owned operator Ogero face public prosecution by the country’s Attorney General.

Nearly three months after rejecting self-assessment of AGR dues by telecommunications companies, India’s Supreme Court was back in session this week to consider the government’s plea to allow carriers like Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel and Tata Teleservices to stagger their dues payments over a maximum of 20 years. 

Cape Verde’s incumbent Cabo Verde Telecom (CVT) is mulling legal action against the country’s regulator ARME (Multisectoral Regulatory Agency for the Economy).

Indian operators aren’t just selling stakes it seems; they’re also buying them. A number of Indian news media outlets  have reported that Bharti Airtel has now upped its stake in Bangladesh operator Robi Axiata.

UPDATE: A court ruling will see SyriaTel placed under judicial custody after the firm continued to dispute its outstanding tax bill.

Mobifone, Vietnamobile, Viettel and Vinaphone have each received a VND90 million ($3876) fine for registering new customers using false information.

It’s not just India’s mobile communications industry that is complaining about its treatment by regulators. Now India’s satellite builders and communications service providers are asking for a much speedier authorisation system for would-be overseas investors.

The likely purchase of Israeli operator Golan Telecom by Cellcom has come a step closer with news that the country’s Ministry of Finance sees no reason to oppose Cellcom’s acquisition of its rival.

Lebanon is aiming to allow international firms to bid for management over either of its state-owned mobile networks by September, according to the country’s telecoms minister.

It’s less than a month since we asked whether an agreed change to the deal meant that the long-delayed Bharti Infratel-Indus Towers merger could be nearing completion. Now that Bharti Infratel’s board is planning a meeting on 11 June to discuss the merger it may be that the end really is near.

Only days after Mubadala, Abu Dhabi’s second-largest sovereign wealth fund, announced plans to buy a 1.9 per cent stake in Jio Platforms, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), the largest investment arm of the government of Abu Dhabi, has become the seventh investor in Jio Platforms in the past two months.

Orange Polska plans to introduce 5G mobile services on 1st July.

Brazilian antitrust regulator CADE (Administrative Council for Economic Defence) has dismissed an appeal by Claro Brasil against a network sharing deal signed by its rivals TIM Brasil and Vivo.

Estonia is planning to revive its cancelled 5G spectrum auctions by making a fourth licence available.

Mobicast has become Vietnam’s second active MVNO following a service launch covering Hanoi.

India is planning to ramp up incentives for the local manufacture of mobile phones through the introduction of a number of electronics manufacturing schemes.

The Iliad Group has partnered with Digicel to launch a joint venture covering the Antilles-Guyane region in the Caribbean.

Telecom Egypt and Etisalat Misr, the Egyptian subsidiary of the Etisalat Group, have announced the signing of transmission and mobile-to-fixed interconnection deals, described as two first-of-their-kind agreements.

The giant pan-African carrier MTN is enjoying differing fortunes in two of its markets, with expansion on the cards in Nigeria and tax demands making things tricky in Uganda.

Jio Platforms’ hot streak of investment continues, with Microsoft reportedly in talks to buy a 2.5% stake for US$2 billion.

As part of its liberalisation of Ethiopia’s telecoms market, the country’s government will sell a 40% stake in state operator Ethio Telecom to private overseas investors.

Ecuador is the latest addition to the list of countries releasing or allocating extra spectrum to its operators to cope with growing data demand during the coronavirus pandemic.