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Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) has approved a request to install a subsea cable landing for the TalayLink project, a regional digital infrastructure initiative backed by Google Cloud.

Independent infrastructure investment manager I Squared Capital has announced that it has agreed to acquire Elea Data Centres, one of the largest carrier-neutral data centre platforms in Brazil.

Airtel Africa is lining up a potentially sizeable IPO of its mobile money business, with the deal expected to raise between $1.5 billion and $2 billion, according to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter.

AI company Pleias and the GSMA announced on Tuesday they have released CommonLingua, an open-source language identification (LID) model that they say will help close the African language gap in AI.

AI computing company Blaize revealed on Tuesday it has signed an MoU with Nokia and IT services provider Datacomm Diangraha to accelerate deployment of hybrid AI inference inference infrastructure in Indonesia.

It is being widely reported that Indian multinational conglomerate Reliance Industries (RIL) is planning to invest more than US$17 billion in setting up a 1.5-gigawatt data centre cluster and a captive solar battery storage system in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

Telkom Indonesia announced on Monday that it has launched a next-gen agentic AI platform that it says will accelerate digital transformation via intelligent automation, business process integration and data-based decision making.

Saudi Arabian telco Zain KSA announced on Sunday its digital platform Yaqoot is partnering with Huawei to upgrade Yaqoot’s BSS to boost operational efficiency and make its digital services more competitive.

Pan-African infrastructure and services group Axian Telecom announced on Monday it has signed a partnership deal with Oracle to unify its ERP across its portfolio.

Myriota, a leading name in low-power satellite connectivity, says it is accelerating its ongoing expansion into the ASEAN market with a strategic focus on Malaysia.

Edotco Malaysia announced on Friday that its subsidiary Vista Bumiria has been appointed by the provincial government of Terengganu as a state-backed company (SBC) to develop telecoms infrastructure.

South Korean conglomerate SK Group said on Friday it has signed two MoUs with the Vietnamese government to develop core AI infrastructure to build the country's AI industry ecosystem.

Eutelsat announced on Thursday it has signed a new multi-year agreement with MTN Côte d’Ivoire to provide satellite broadband services across the country using Eutelsat’s KONNECT high-throughput satellite.

Telecom Namibia and Angola Telecom announced on Thursday they have signed an MoU and commercial terms agreement (CTA) to boost regional and international subsea cable connectivity along Southern Africa’s west coast.

African data sovereignty is again in the news. UniCloud Africa (UCA), a pan-African sovereign cloud platform, and data centre company Open Access Data Centres (OADC), have announced a strategic partnership to, as they put it, accelerate Africa’s digital transformation and independence.

Veon Group announced on Wednesday that its Bangladesh subsidiary Banglalink has signed an agreement with Starlink Mobile to integrate its Direct to Cell (D2C) satellite connectivity in remote areas with Banglalink’s terrestrial coverage.

Satellite operator Thaicom has reportedly received regulatory clearance to lease capacity from KT Sat to temporarily replace its Thaicom 4 satellite due to the delayed delivery of its official successor, Thaicom 9.

Danish company GomSpace and Ukrainian company STETMAN have launch a satellite communication-related joint venture in Ukraine.

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) Philippines has agreed a 40MW renewable supply deal with MPower, a unit of private sector electric distribution utility Manila Electric Company (Meralco) to supply power for its Philippines data centre operations.

NTT Data announced on Monday that it has established active 400 Gbps peering at the Johannesburg Internet Exchange (JINX), adding that it’s the first network operator in Africa to do so.

Nigerian finance firm Credit Direct says it has signed an MoU with Chinese handset maker Vivo Nigeria to make the company’s smartphones more affordable.

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Indus Cloud to introduce advanced cloud solutions powered by cloud services provider Huawei Cloud in Pakistan.

Ooredoo Qatar announced on Sunday it has launched what it claims is Qatar’s first LTE-M service, enabling its 4G network to support large-scale IoT applications.

ICT company Azerconnect Group announced on Monday it has signed a GeForce NOW Alliance Partnership agreement with Nvidia to launch cloud gaming services in Azerbaijan.

SHB (Saigon-Hanoi Commercial Joint Stock Bank) has enlisted Huawei as a strategic advisor as it seeks to move towards a more digitised operating model.

Operator Econet Wireless Zimbabwe says it has launched Econet AI, which is described as a dedicated standalone business unit created to accelerate artificial intelligence adoption across the country’s economy.

Poland’s railway infrastructure manager, PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe (PKP PLK), is apparently close to completing the installation of a GSM-R-based system on the country’s Central Railway Line (CMK), with testing planned for later this year.

Hyperscale data centre platform AirTrunk has announced the acquisition of Lumina CloudInfra, a developer of large-scale data centres with a strong presence in India.

Malaysian telco U Mobile said on Friday that its enterprise arm, U Business, has completed a 5G IoT proof of concept (PoC) with Qualcomm and City-Link Express for high-value air cargo tracking.

Malaysian telco YTL Communications said on Wednesday it is partnering with US-based identity and fraud prevention platform Shush to deploy network authentication APIs, starting with Number Verification and SIM Swap.