ARSAT, the national Argentinian telecommunications company, recently awarded Communications & Power Industries (CPI) an approximately US$20 million three-year contract to provide large, Ka-band telemetry, tracking and command (TT&C) and gateway systems to support the ARSAT-SG1 satellite.
The African Development Fund’s Board of Directors has approved $3.9 million grant to finance an upgrade of Liberia's payments infrastructure and systems project.
The Thai smartphone market declined by 21% at the end of 2022 with 16.6 million devices shipped in the whole year, due to macroeconomic pressures and the lack of government stimulus packages.
Liquid Intelligent Technologies has acquired Egyptian cloud and security firm Cysiv MEA, formerly known as SecureMisr.
Fast Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) subsidiary of network solutions company Paratus Group, has announced that its 620-kilometre fibre optic network link between Muanda on the West Coast and the capital, Kinshasa, is now active. The fibre link will deliver high-speed connectivity to the region through Paratus Group’s pan-African network.
Claro Argentina has signed a collaboration deal with Empatel, an Argentinean service provider based in the remote La Pampa province.
Kazakhstan’s Kcell has launched its first 5G trial with 12 sites now live across the cities of Almaty and Shymkent.
The National Bank of Rwanda has granted fintech firm Flutterwave two additional licences that will boost its mobile finance offering in East Africa.
Fifteen months after conducting 5G pilot testing in the country, MTN Côte d’Ivoire has announced that its 5G services will be available by the start of the 2024 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), scheduled for January in that year.
Satellite manufacturer and internet service provider mu Space and Advanced Technology has reached an exclusive deal with OneWeb, a global communications network powered by a constellation of 648 low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, to provide LEO connectivity solutions across mainland Southeast Asia.
Indian ISP Netplus Broadband has tapped Nokia for its Multi-Access Gateway Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) application.
Helios Towers highlighted moves to lower capex for 2023 and focus on organic growth this year, as the company reported boosts to revenue and operating profit.
Moldovan mobile network operator Moldcell has announced its entry into the financial services market with what it describes as a first-of-its-kind digital wallet called 'moldcell money'.
Hard on the heels of the announcement that it plans to use renewable solar energy for its facilities in South Africa, Africa Data Centres has now said that it intends to deploy what it calls a cutting-edge data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) solution in facilities in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria.
Malaysian satellite operator MEASAT has selected Hughes’ Jupiter System ground platform to enable broadband services on the MEASAT-3d High-Throughput Satellite (HTS).
India’s IT and electronics minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar denied the government is planning to force smartphone makers to enable users to uninstall bloatware apps, and enforce mandatory checks, describing the story broke by Reuters as “plain wrong”.
African telecommunications and managed services provider Seacom says it has now gone live on the Equiano subsea cable following the cable’s landing in Cape Town, South Africa, in August 2022.
Malaysian content and entertainment company Astro has chosen Airties, a supplier of managed Wi-Fi solutions for service providers globally, to deliver a portfolio of smart Wi-Fi software and services to support broadband subscribers across its fibre footprint in Malaysia.
With 5G rollout well under way in much of the country, an Indian industry group has suggested that most telecom towers still need fiberisation, a vast number still need to be deployed and that recent amended Right of Way (RoW) rules are not being met by some Indian states.
India has reportedly set into motion a security law to force smartphone manufacturers to enable the removal of pre-installed apps on demand and screening of major OS updates reported Reuters.
Omani service provider Omantel and du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), have announced plans to link the UAE and Oman through a newly activated 275-kilometre international fibre optic submarine cable named the Oman Emirates Gateway (OEG).
The government of Burkino Faso has chosen Telecel Faso’s new subsidiary Bridge Fiber Solutions (BFS) to operate and maintain the country’s fibre optic backbone network.
Africa Data Centres and operator Orange are both making plans to use solar power for at least some of their data centre power requirements in parts of Africa.
At MWC23, we caught up with ZTE's Luo Wei to discuss the vendor's new Nubia Pad 3D, developed with technology provided by Leia, as well as its partnership with AIS in Thailand.
Argentina-based connectivity provider Servicio Satelital has partnered with neXat to provide its customers with advanced, satellite specific OSS/BBS tools via neXat’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution.
The Bolivian president has announced a US$20 million investment to build a new data centre in the city of El Alto, the country’s second-largest city in Bolivia, located adjacent to La Paz in Pedro Domingo Murillo Province in the west of the country close to the Peruvian and Chilean borders.
UZ-SAT, a joint venture between Uzbektelecom, Satellin Group, and private Uzbekistani enterprises, has selected Hughes’ Jupiter System to power satellite solutions in the market.
Revenue diversification has become an increasingly urgent and strategic focus for telcos, as they have to cope with the most pressing challenges, both internally and externally.
We spoke to Louis Hall, founder and CEO of billing specialist Cerillion, about how the company's evergreen OSS/BSS offering helps its clients monetise services on their networks.
Developing Telecoms met recently with Huawei FinTech and Mobile Financial Services (MFS) team, to discuss the development and growth of Huawei’s MFS business. The interview started by asking them to outline how Huawei first entered the MFS market.
Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE), a consortium of Asian telecommunications carriers managing the ASE cable system, is working with networking systems, services, and software group Ciena to improve the design capacity and sustainability of its cable system.
Satellite technology company Hughes Network Systems has announced that Mexican telecommunications and entertainment company Stargroup has selected the Hughes JUPITER System and managed satellite broadband to extend LTE service to customers in rural communities.
Smartphone shipments in Africa declined 16.2% year-on-year in Q4 2022, marking a sixth quarter of decline, as consumer and vendor confidence was cut by macroeconomic factors, according to analyst firm IDC.
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