Telecom Italia is the latest company linked to a possible acquisition of Nextel Brazil.

The president of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, has detailed the country’s proposals for increasing taxes on telecom and mobile money services.

Dr. Leroy Blimegger is the Senior Vice President of the Global Services Division at Huawei. Based in Shenzhen, he has worked at the company for 13 years.

Thai operator dtac now has just two days to migrate its customers off its 2G network after the country’s regulator refused to allow a temporary extension of its 850MHz spectrum concession.

Indian regulator TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) has fined several of the country’s largest operators for falling short of their service quality commitments, with Reliance Jio receiving the steepest penalty.

MTN Group has hit another setback in Nigeria after the country’s government demanded that its local unit hand over $2 billion in unpaid back taxes.

Ahead of their now completed merger, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular reportedly reduced their combined workforce by nearly a third.

Thai operator dtac could launch a legal challenge against the country’s regulator if it is prevented from using the 850MHz spectrum band following the expiration of its concession with CAT Telecom on 15th September.

The government of China could merge two of the country’s Big Three operators – the second and third placed China Unicom and China Telecom – as it looks to boost 5G investment.

Developing Telecoms’ Founder Alec Barton recently caught up with Kaan Terzioğlu, CEO of Turkcell at Huawei’s Operations Transformation Forum 2018 (#OTF2018) in Munich.

The hotly anticipated merger of Vodafone India and Idea Cellular has been completed, creating a new Indian market leader with over 408 million subscribers.

MTN Nigeria has “strongly refuted” claims that it repatriated dividends worth $8.1 billion from the country between 2007 and 2015, after the Central Bank of Nigeria demanded that the operator return this sum.

9mobile’s much-delayed sale to Teleology Holdings has received definitive clearance from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and Central Bank of Nigeria.

Oi’s largest stakeholders are reportedly no longer aiming to divest their holdings in the beleaguered Brazilian operator and are instead considering how to boost its offering.

Russian operators have called for legislation obliging foreign internet firms such as Facebook and Google to contribute to the costs associated with a new law requiring data to be stored domestically.

Only two of the nine available blocks of 1800MHz spectrum found a buyer in Thailand’s much delayed 4G auctions.

Reliance Jio’s latest subscriber gains place it ever closer behind India’s second and third largest operators, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular.

Peru’s Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) has drafted new regulations on spectrum refarming to improve competition and penetration in the market.