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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.

Consumer electronic products company itel has officially revealed what it calls its most cost-effective 4G smartphone – the A60 – as it prepares to launch the new device across Africa. 

Agility Logistics Parks (ALP) has announced the launch of tailored, master-planned data centre campus sites in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt and Ghana, with more to come.

Nokia is set to provide OSS/BSS software solutions to Egypt’s New Administrative Capital city.

New arrival in the market – and now the second national operator in the country – Safaricom Ethiopia and Commercial Bank of Ethiopia have signed an MoU.

Hrvatski Telekom is implementing Nokia’s Converged Charging software solution to modernise its online charging and better harness network monetisation opportunities to unlock new revenue streams.

Pan-African network provider Paratus says it has broken ground on what is described as a multimillion-rand satellite teleport facility in Doornkloof, around 50 miles north of Johannesburg.

Airbus Defence and Space, a major player in the aerospace industry, has announced an agreement for Angeo-1, the first very high performance Angolan Earth observation satellite, to be manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space in France.

Two Saudi service providers have signed deals with Rakuten Symphony as they look towards their next generation of mobile networks.

At the recent Kinshasa Economic Forum, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and Bandwidth and Cloud Services Group (BCS) a pan-African wholesale telecom infrastructure provider, signed a warrants agreement that will allow BCS to move forward with its plans to install a new fibre-optic backbone in the eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Intracom Telecom has signed a new deal with Sudanese ISP Maxnet to supply its WiBAS wireless access systems.

The next decade will see continuing challenges in the area of core network evolution with significant changes coming down the line as core networks evolve towards next-generation architectures and platforms, says Richard Liu, President of Huawei’s Cloud Core Network Product Line.

Several years of sustained investment in data storage solutions coupled with continuous innovation and significant improvements in vision and execution, mean that Huawei can boast a full set of storage products that ranks it among the market leaders in terms of product competitiveness.

Ericsson has signed a reseller agreement with South African service provider Comsol to provide the Ericsson Private 5G solution; this will enable Comsol to expand its enterprise business within South Africa’s mining industry.

AALTO HAPS, an Airbus subsidiary, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to enter a strategic partnership with STC Group, the Saudi digital enabler in the region, that will involve introducing high altitude platform station (HAPS)-based solutions to Saudi Arabia.

Vivo, the Brazilian branch of service provider Telefónica, is migrating essential data and processes from its data centre in Campinas, São Paulo, to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in order to reduce IT costs and accelerate new service offerings.

Malaysian operator CelcomDigi Berhad (CelcomDigi) and South Korean operator SK Telecom have sealed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore and develop Malaysia’s first operator-led mobile metaverse platform. The MoU was signed at MWC 2023.

The Board of Directors of the World Broadband Association (WBBA), a multilateral, industry-led association, providing leadership for digital broadband across the next decade, recently held its first meeting in Barcelona. At that meeting Li Zhengmao, former CEO of China Telecommunications Corporation, was elected as the Chairman of the Board.