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Croatian telecommunications company Hrvatski Telekom (HT) has implemented free WiFi internet in the Town of Obrovac and the municipalities of Konavle and Perusic, which provides access to the internet in public locations for citizens and visitors.

Mobile number portability (MNP) is expected to start in Uruguay 12 January 2022, the national regulator Unidad Reguladora de Servicios de Comunicaciones (URSEC) said in a press note.

CMLink, China Mobile's subsidiary in Canada, will cease operation in Canada due to fears expressed by the federal government.

The combined telecommunications industrial revenue in China rose 8.1 percent year on year to over 1.35 trillion yuan (about 212 billion U.S. dollars) in the January-November period, registering robust growth.

Kuwaiti mobile telecommunications company Zain Kuwait said its 5G traffic accounts for more than 40 percent of its total wireless traffic.

Argentina's Camara de Cooperativas de Telecomunicaciones (Chamber of Telecommunications Cooperatives, or Catel) has announced that Imowi, its MVNO service, will launch on 20 January 2022.

Indosat Oordeoo, a telecommunications provider in Indonesia, prepares a network capacity of 44 PB per day to meet the needs of the community’s digital activity which is predicted to increase during Christmas and New Year (Nataru) holidays.

Dito Telecommunity Corporation, a telecommunications company in the Philippines, said that it hit its target of five million subscriptions before the end of 2021, and reported revenues of PHP2 billion (USD40.1 million) in the nine months since its commercial launch back in March.

Reliance Jio added 1.7 million wireless subscribers in October, while rivals Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi) lost subscribers.

Tele2 AB, a mobile network operator (MNO) in Latvia, has secured a crucial spectrum in the Latvian 700 MHz spectrum auction.

Despite the ongoing uncertainty caused by the conflict in that country, the second operator in Ethiopia is still making plans for next year’s launch, most recently with news of the mobile number prefix it plans to employ.

Indian telecom operator Bharti Airtel on Friday said it has paid INR 15,519 crore (GBP 1.5bn) to the government towards prepayment of its entire deferred liability of spectrum acquired in the 2014 auction.

Brazilian telecommunications operator Algar Telecom has launched a commercial Non-Standalone (NSA) 5G service using its newly acquired 2.3GHz spectrum.

Indonesian digital telco PT Indosat Tbk (Indosat Ooredoo) announced the launch of 5G commercial services in Balikpapan.

Indian multinational telecommunications services company Bharti Airtel (Airtel) has announced the roll-out of Avanseus’ predictive maintenance (PdM) solution across its operations.

Ooredoo’s flurry of recent agreements continues. As well as an FWA agreement with Nokia and a payment technology agreement with i2c, the international communications company operating across the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia recently announced a massive group-wide deal with Huawei.

Samsung Electronics and the Vietnamese multinational telecommunications company Viettel announced that the companies have started 5G commercial trials in Da Nang, the largest city in the Central Vietnam region.

Employees of Lebanon’s two state-owned mobile operators Alfa and Touch commenced a strike yesterday (13^th December).

Indian telecom operator Vi (formerly Vodafone Idea) announced its partnership with Hungama Music to launch premium music streaming offering through the dedicated Vi app.

Telenor Pakistan has signed the GSM licence renewal template created by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) “under protest and without prejudice” to maintain continuity of its services.

The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has awarded a grant to Smart Communications, the mobile unit of PLDT, to help the operator extend its 5G offering to 96% of the Philippines’ population.

Operator AT&T Mexico has announced the start of deployment of its 5G network in the country. It also says it has plans to connect the first 50 mobile devices to the network, in order, it suggests, to test the browsing experience.

Indonesia’s Telkomsel is reportedly planning to sell further tower assets to Mitratel, the tower unit of its parent firm Telkom Indonesia.

Indian telecom operator Vodafone Idea (Vi) has announced that it partnered with Nokia to demonstrate network slicing over the 5G standalone (SA) network.

South African mobile communications company Vodacom has reduced out-of-bundle roaming data speeds on partner networks around the world by up to 88%.

Infrastructure firm Equinix has acquired West African data centre and connectivity solutions provider MainOne as it seeks to expand into the region.

South African multinational mobile telecommunications company MTN announced the launch of two new MyMTN Home Uncapped speed-based plans on 5G, promising fast data speeds, low latency, increased reliability, and good coverage.

MTN Uganda is today proceeding with the listing of its 22.4 billion ordinary shares on the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE), with trading commencing immediately.

MTN Cote d'Ivoire (MTNCI), a subsidiary of South Africa-based MTN Group, is currently conducting a pilot phase of 5G in the West African country with beach resorts and rainforests.

Vodafone Qatar has announced its latest milestone in the development of its GigaNet 5G network, with the completion of Qatar’s first successful trial on the millimetre wave (mmWave) spectrum.

Polsat Plus Group in Poland has officially announced the completion of the merger of its two mobile network subsidiaries, Polkomtel, trading under the Plus brand, and Aero2.

Veon has closed the sale of its Russian mobile towers to local firm Service-Telecom, a partner of VimpelCom’s Beeline, for RUB70.65 billion (US$957 million).