Telenor Myanmar has complied with a government order to block access to over 200 websites.

UPC Romania is no longer the name of one of Romania’s leading cable companies.

The Vietnamese telecommunications sector is a booming market with huge opportunities for local and foreign investors, reports Research & Markets.

Ukraine’s market leader Kyivstar will begin rolling out LTE-900 upgrades from April, after being issued a licence for the technology earlier this month.

India’s government, regulator, and other industry stakeholders have put forward new measures aimed at helping the country’s telecommunications sector adapt to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The report extension requested by Indian operators, which we highlighted last week, has now been granted.

While Indian operators are requesting more spectrum from the government, in South Africa it seems the government is proving a little more proactive.

With their 3G licences set to expire on 31st March, the government of Romania has made a last minute decision to allow the local units of Orange and Vodafone to extend them.

A three-month moratorium on bank term loans and working capital finance offered by the Reserve Bank of India in response to the Coronavirus pandemic could prove especially useful to the country’s telecommunications sector.

Mexican regulator IFT (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones) could postpone the country’s upcoming auction of 5G-ready 600MHz spectrum in light of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.

Having deactivated all of the network equipment that it operated outside of Kiev, Ukrtelecom’s mobile unit TriMob is now auctioning its disused infrastructure.

Russia’s Rostelecom is acquiring the 55% stake in Tele2 Russia that it did not already hold, meaning that it now holds 100% of shares in the unit.

Zain Bahrain has renewed its partnership with local start-up platform StartUp Bahrain to help push innovation in the telecom and fintech sectors.

According to recent reports in the UK’s Financial Times newspaper the multibillion-dollar stake in India’s Reliance Jio that Facebook allegedly intends to buy could be delayed.

India isn’t the only part of Asia where operators are moving quickly to accommodate stay-at-home end users during the Coronavirus outbreak, as Pakistan’s Ufone has just proved.

As we suggested yesterday, fast growth in Indian data usage has started to put pressure on mobile networks.

The NGOF has announced new unified criteria for the provision of private line networks, products and services to help network operators expand their B2B services.

Jamaica’s Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has charged several executives from the now-defunct startup Symbiote Investment (Caricel) for breaching the country’s Telecommunications Act.

India’s big three operators are bracing themselves for a jump in data traffic as work-from-home initiatives gain traction across the country.

Russia’s spectrum authority has granted MegaFon and Rostelecom access to 5G-capable spectrum in order to conduct joint trials of the technology.

Ukraine’s regulator has issued the country’s three major players with 900MHz licences.

The Indian government has apparently begun planning to look after the mobile subscribers and businesses likely to be affected if a telecommunications company collapses after the October 2019 adjusted gross revenue (AGR) ruling was confirmed recently by the Supreme Court.

MTN Group is continuing to invest in its Iranian unit despite the sanctions imposed on the market by the USA.

The Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) announced the extension of the competition to license new mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) to provide services in Saudi Arabia.

According to Indian news reports the country’s government had recently approved a formula to recover adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues from telecommunications companies over a 20-year period. So what went wrong?

Israel’s Ministry of Communications has ordered Cellcom to start migrating its spectrum from 1st June 2020 so that it conforms to European standards.