The CEO of Kenyan market leader Safaricom has stated that the operator has no plans to react to Airtel Kenya’s imminent halving of its cross-network calling fees.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has ordered a second round of due diligence to be conducted on Teleology Holdings - the preferred bidder for 9mobile - before it approves the deal.

NII Holdings’ impending sale of its Nextel Brazil unit has reportedly attracted the attention of some major Latin American players, including America Movil, Telecom Italia and Telefonica.

The Kenyan regulator’s report into improving competition in Kenya has had its findings savaged by Bob Collymore, CEO of the market’s most dominant operator Safaricom.

India’s Supreme Court has cleared Reliance Communications to sell off assets worth INR250 billion ($3.63 billion) after it resolved a legal spat with Ericsson with a settlement of INR5.5 billion ($80.06 million).

Indian regulator TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) has proposed making more than 8,500MHz of spectrum available across nine bands when the country holds its next spectrum auctions.

Huawei’s Q2 smartphone shipments increased by 41%, meaning that the Chinese device manufacturer has surpassed Apple to take second place in the global smartphone market with a share of 15.5%.

MTN has stalled its plans to invest $750 million in Iran in the face of possible US sanctions on the market.

Bharti Airtel saw its Q1 profits fall steeply following “sustained pricing pressure” in the Indian mobile market.

Millicom has headed off a legal challenge claiming that the operator was not the full owner of its subsidiary Tigo Tanzania.

Vodafone India and Idea Cellular have completed a payment of INR73 billion ($1 billion) to the Indian Department of Telecommunications (DoT), which will enable the companies to complete their merger.

Russian mobile operators could be forced to raise their tariffs by as much as 10% following the introduction of new legislation that requires them to store user data for up to six months.

Thailand’s third largest operator dtac has seen its Q2 profits plummet, with service revenue down and prepaid subscribers churning.

Better spectrum pricing policies are needed in developing countries to improve the economic and social welfare of the billions of people that remain unconnected to mobile broadband services, according to a new GSMA report.

Three of Apple’s senior executives in India have left the company amid a slowdown of iPhone sales across the first half of 2018.

A new report commissioned by the UN has found that broadband uptake in some of the least economically developed countries in the world has been slowed by a number of societal factors, despite good progress in the deployment of infrastructure.

India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is withholding its final approval of Vodafone India and Idea Cellular’s merger until the companies pay a total of INR71.7 billion ($1.04 billion) in spectrum fees.

MTN has not submitted an application for an IPO in Nigeria, according to officials from the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

America Movil must continue splitting its mobile and fixed businesses in Mexico despite its legal challenge against the order.

Bangladesh’s second and third largest mobile operators - Robi Axiata and Banglalink - have lent their support to a government proposal to implement a standardised rate for voice calls.

China Tower has been cleared for a $10 billion IPO on the Hong Kong stock exchange, hot on the heels of Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi.