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South African open-access fibre provider Frogfoot says it has expanded its footprint in KwaZulu-Natal after acquiring fibre infrastructure assets built and operated by Mitsol.

Telekom Srbija Group and its subsidiary Mtel are upgrading fibre connectivity between Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina using Ciena’s coherent optical technology, as the operator looks to boost cross-border capacity and prepare its network for rising data demand.

Global smartphone revenues climbed to a record US$135 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025, rising 7% year-on-year as higher prices and strong demand for premium devices offset ongoing pressure on shipments.

Indian telco Bharti Airtel announced on Thursday it is giving all of its 360 million customers free access to Adobe Express Premium for a year.

Saudi Arabia-based Arabsat says it has selected French firm ACTIA Aerospace to design, supply and deploy a new generation ofQ/V-Band RF gateway systems that will form a critical part of the ground segment for its upcoming ARABSAT-7A software-defined satellite.

Malaysian 5G telco U Mobile said on Thursday it will launch a neutral sandbox for enterprises to develop 5G-Advanced use cases, and has already signed on several big-name ecosystem partners to support the project.

Ooredoo Palestine renewed its multi-year partnership with Finnish BSS/OSS vendor Qvantel.

Sri Lankan telco Dialog Axiata said on Wednesday it has integrated GovPay – the government’s digital payment platform for government services – into its eZ Cash mobile money service, enabling users to pay for government services at eZ Cash retail outlets.

Tencent Cloud is reportedly planning to expand its data centre footprint in the Middle East in a bid to grow its cloud business outside of China.

Artificial intelligence technology company AfricAI says it has signed a multi-year exclusive distribution and deployment agreement with Micropolis Robotics, granting AfricAI sole and exclusive rights to commercialise, deploy, and scale Micropolis’s advanced robotics platforms across Africa.

Oman has launched a national programme to develop and assemble a CubeSat satellite, marking what is described as a step towards building domestic capabilities in satellite manufacturing and space technologies.

Data centre and fibre solutions company Digital Edge has announced a US$4.5 billion investment to build CGK Campus, one of Indonesia's largest AI-ready hyperscale data centre campuses, in the GIIC Industrial Estate in Bekasi, in the province of West Java, located on the eastern border of Jakarta.

Technology company Cassava Technologies and intelligent network platform company AXON Networks have announced a strategic partnership to co-develop, deploy and manage what is described as Africa’s first end-to-end operator-as-a-service (OaaS) platform.

Trans Pacific Networks (TPN) said on Tuesday it has struck a deal with Ciena to deploy its optical solutions on the Echo and Tabua cable systems connecting the US to Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands.

NTT Global Data Centres (NTT GDC), part of NTT Data, and the world's third-largest data centre provider, has signed a 100MW power purchase agreement with Thai Energy company B.Grimm Power, through its Amata B.Grimm Power division, securing capacity for its upcoming Bangkok 4 Data Centre.

Hard on the heels of the EU agreement with Kenya reported earlier today on these pages comes more evidence of growing international concern about cybersecurity, with news of a Cambodia-Hong Kong MoU and Ghanaian plans to regulate would-be cybersecurity service providers.

Brazil is set to receive its largest delivery of fibre optic cable to date from trade partner China, bolstering efforts to connect remote communities in the north of the country with high-speed internet.

The European Union will provide KES454 million (EUR3 million) to strengthen Kenya’s national cybersecurity ecosystem as the country accelerates its digital transformation.

Vodafone Business, a division of the country’s leading operator Vodafone Egypt, has announced its entry into Egypt’s agriculture sector, marking what is described as a significant expansion of its enterprise services into one of the country’s most critical economic areas.

Mogo, an Egyptian provider of consumer finance solutions, has announced the signing of a strategic cooperation agreement with Geidea, a Saudi-headquartered premier electronic payments company, to address the Egyptian payment market.

Expansion projects have been announced in the past week by both Cameroon and Madagascar aimed, in part, at delivering better connectivity to isolated areas.

Two very different approaches to powering data centres are making headlines in Dubai and Kazakhstan: one, which has been under way for some time, is solar-focused, the other, very much on the drawing board, may use coal.

Zimbabwe’s telecoms regulator has moved to quash reports claiming a new cybersecurity law has come into force, saying the information circulating on social media and in some media outlets is incorrect.

Gulf Edge, the digital infrastructure arm of Thai energy company Gulf Energy Development, has announced it is partnering with Google Cloud to transform Gulf and its affiliates into AI-native firms, with Thai telco AIS serving as the transformation model.

Telecom Fiji announced on Monday it will deploy Starlink-powered managed Wi-Fi solutions in Namosi and Lomaiviti as part of a new universal service obligation (USO) contract signed with the Telecommunications Authority of Fiji (TAF).

The government of Burkina Faso inaugurated two new mini data centres on Friday in a move to boost data sovereignty as well as the country’s digital infrastructure.

The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has commissioned Malaysian subsea cable developer SubConnex to study the feasibility of a new submarine cable system linking India with Singapore and major data centres across Southeast Asia.

Space World Group subsidiary Constl said on Thursday it is partnering with Nokia to deploy a dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) optical transport network across India to meet demand for webscale, cloud and AI-driven traffic.

Brazilian digital infrastructure and data centre group V.tal has announced plans for a new subsea cable system linking Brazil and the US, while its subsidiary Tecto Data Centers revealed separate plans to build a new data centre in Porto Alegre.

Saudi Arabia-headquartered global artificial intelligence company Humain and the National Infrastructure Fund, the Kingdom’s lead development financing partner for infrastructure, have announced a strategic financing framework agreement of up to US$1.2 billion.

India’s smartphone market contracted by 7% in the fourth quarter of 2025, shipping 34.5 million units, as rising prices and sluggish demand weighed on consumer purchases, according to analyst house Omdia.