Etisalat has confirmed that it will sell its operations in West Africa to Maroc Telecom.

Two leading Czech operators have agreed to share radio access equipment for nationwide LTE coverage.

Pakistan’s 3G and 4G spectrum auctions have concluded successfully, raising over $1.1 billion.

Etisalat has reached a financing agreement with several banks which will allow it to acquire a majority stake in Maroc Telecom.

Three of India’s largest operators have forged a 3G roaming agreement to expand their coverage across more of the country’s telecom circles.

Telecom Egypt has been granted permission by the Egyptian government to obtain a unified licence for branded mobile services, which will cast doubt over the future of its partnership with Vodafone Egypt.

Vodafone India’s chief executive Marten Pieters has expressed his belief that the market is heading for widespread consolidation as operators are not turning a profit.

Mexican regulator IFT has unveiled the new rules that it will impose on America Movil in an attempt to undermine the operator’s dominance, thereby improving competition in the market.

Safaricom’s CEO Bob Collymore has confirmed that the operator is no longer interested in the proposed deal with Airtel to acquire the assets of Kenyan rival Yu.

The European Commission has stated that it will drop its “anti-dumping” investigation into Chinese telecom equipment imports.

Telekom Malaysia (TM) has agreed to acquire a 57% stake in Malaysia's largest WiMAX provider, Packet One Networks (P1).

Orange is introducing a new mobile healthcare service in Cameroon with the aim of extending it to other sub-Saharan African countries on a common Orange Healthcare platform.

India saw a massive leap in 3G data traffic during 2013, according to NSN’s annual report on mobile broadband in the country.

Regulation in Bahrain is preventing operators from competing with OTT providers, causing them to lose out on revenue, according to the country’s regulator.

Israel’s regulator is likely to veto a proposed 4G network-sharing agreement between three of the country’s major operators.

Russian operator MTS has been requested to cooperate with an investigation by US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into Uzbekistan’s telecoms sector.

NEC Corporation has been selected to provide the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology with a wide-area disaster prevention system to detect volcanic and seismic activity by using seismic intensity meters and tide indicators, as well as offering disaster countermeasures.

The Thai state operator TOT currently must refrain from leasing its unused spectrum to market leader AIS, as it is concerned about the legality of doing so.

Malaysia has been working towards a clear national objective to see it ranked as a fully developed nation by the year 2020.