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Sivers Semiconductors has announced multiple new products for licensed 5G bands at MWC 2022 resulting from its recent acquisition of mmWave company MixComm.

Open source solutions provider Red Hat has announced at Mobile World Congress 2022 that Turkish integrated telecommunications operator Turk Telekom has deployed Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading Kubernetes platform, for use across its business to develop and scale cloud-native applications from core to edge for faster innovation.

Nokia today announced the world’s first deployment of 5G Edge Slicing on a live commercial network with mobile operators, Cellcom and Telia.

Network software provider Mavenir has announced that it will be showcasing Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud-hosted 5G core network for various 4G/5G use cases at this year’s Mobile World Congress 2022. Mavenir is already working with customers for trials and deployment of Mavenir’s end-to-end solution on AWS.

MTN Namibia has tapped Canadian firm NuRAN Wireless to deploy a minimum of 150 rural and suburban network sites over the next two years.

South African fibre broadband provider has acquired a 45% non-controlling stake in fibre/fixed wireless access provider Herotel.

Zimbabwean operator Econet Wireless and Botswana’s Mascom have this week both announced 5G launches that are to begin in their countries' capital cities.

Indian multinational telecommunications services company Bharti Airtel has acquired a strategic stake in Singapore-based Blockchain platform Aqilliz for an undisclosed sum.

Pakistan-based fintech platform NayaPay has raised $13 million in one of the largest seed rounds in South Asia.

Saudi Arabia’s Salam (formerly ITC) has selected Optiva’s BSS Platform to enable its new MVNO.

Indian operator Vodafone Idea (aka Vi) has announced a collaboration with A5G Networks, an innovator in autonomous mobile network infrastructure, to enable Industry 4.0 and smart mobile edge computing in India.

Indonesian telecommunications tower company Mitratel (Dayamitra Telekomunikasi) pledged to put US$69.5 million into constructing new towers in remote locations across Indonesia.

Nokia is showcasing the UBT-T XP Dual Band radio, the latest addition to its award-winning Wavence product family, at Mobile World Congress 2022.

Dubai-based telecom infrastructure solutions provider Arc Solutions has signed an agreement with Israel ISP and IT solutions provider Bezeq International (BI) to deploy its network in Bezeq International’s data centre in Tel Aviv.

Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Investment Company invested US$350m (€309m) in Asian data centre operator Princeton Digital Group (PDG), backed by Warburg Pincus.

Satellite-direct-to-phone telecoms company Lynk Global, whose global commercial service is poised to launch later this year, says it has signed multiple commercial contracts with a number of mobile operators covering seven island nations in the Pacific and Caribbean.

Leading business services provider IBM has announced a multi-million dollar investment in its resources to help businesses prepare for and manage the growing threat of cyberattacks to organisations across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region – including new facilities in India.

Indian digital ICT solutions provider Sify Technologies Limited has concluded power purchase agreements (PPAs) with Vibrant Energy Holdings, which describes its  mission as 'to lead the transition of corporate and industrial customers to a more sustainable, resilient, and low-cost energy future', for 231 MW of solar and wind energy capacity.

Tonga has seen its connectivity restored as its international subsea cable was repaired after a volcanic eruption last month caused a communications blackout.

America Movil’s Telcel has switched on 5G services in 18 of Mexico’s largest cities.

Rohde & Schwarz China together with Zhuhai DingLi has won the 2021 China Mobile centralised procurement project for 5G scanners.

Intracom Telecom announced the extension of supply of its Point-to-Multipoint (PtMP) WiBAS-OSDR (hub) and WiBAS-Connect (terminal) at 10.5 GHz band to Lintasarta, an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) total solutions company in Indonesia.

From 2G – which is still popular in many regions - to 5G, more and more cellular systems are emerging and co-existing. A solution to balance between new technology and CAPEX/OPEX is necessary for telcos or system integrators.

Digicel is replacing its end-of-life IP Transfer Point (ITP) systems in use at 26 of its markets in the Caribbean and Central America with BroadForward’s Signalling Transfer Point (STP).

Ooredoo Maldives has partnered with Rakuten Viber to enable customers in the Maldives to easily send and receive money transfers on Viber’s m-Faisaa messaging platform.

The Satcom Industry Association of India (SIA-India) and the Indian Space Association (ISpA) have inked memorandum of understandings (MoU) with consultancy company Geospatial World, seeing collaboration as the key to growing India's satellite communications sector. 

PLDT, one of the Philippines' major telecommunications providers, has said it is to develop a 100MW data centre in Santa Rosa, in the Laguna province of the Philippines, which is situated southeast of Metro Manila. The purpose-built facility will be constructed through PLDT’s ICT arm ePLDT.

Cloud-related deals have been in the news recently – notably in the form of two major announcements affecting Thailand and the MEA region.

The State Bank of Pakistan approved MCB Bank to perform due diligence to acquire a majority stake in Telenor's financial operations in Pakistan.

Open RAN firm Parallel Wireless is collaborating with Türk Telekom and Juniper Networks on a multivendor Open RAN initiative to deliver state-of-the-art broadband communications.

Vietnam announced it will begin researching and developing 6G technology this year with ambitions to become a global leader in the digital world, earmarking cloud computing and digital platforms as beneficiaries to the future standard.

Cellcom, Israel’s largest cellular provider, and the compatriot telecommunications equipment supplier Novlesat aim to collaborate on a pilot of real-time video content distribution on 5G network infrastructure.