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National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), a government-run body with the mission to make the internet accessible to everyone, will add 65 new internet exchanges across India by March 2022, taking the total number of exchanges to 75.

Chinese state-owned telecommunication company China Telecom has selected ZTE Corporation in the operator's core router centralized procurement 2021, with the core router ZXR10 T8000 gaining a No.2 market share of 30% in the CR-A1 (single device) section, and winning the CR-A2 (cluster) section with the highest score in the overall ranking.

In order to scale up the delivery of its broadband internet for the rural regions of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Kacific Broadband Satellites will migrate its IT infrastructure and critical business applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS) by 2022.

Moro Hub, a subsidiary of Digital DEWA, the digital arm of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), has started work on a new solar-powered data centre.

Responding to what is described as a surge in demand for high-quality fibre broadband services, service provider Digicel, which serves consumer and business customers in 32 markets in the Caribbean, Central America and Pacific, has modernized its FTTx network across the Caribbean Islands.

Elisa Estonia has signed a five-year deal with Nokia that will see the Finnish vendor replace the operator’s existing 4G infrastructure and deploy 5G RAN nationwide.

Chile's telecommunications regulator Subsecretaría de Telecomunicaciones de Chile (Subtel) announced that Movistar (Telefonica), Entel, and WOM have activated their fifth-generation networks in the country around 10 months after acquiring 5G-compatible frequencies.

Thailand Office of The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), the oldest and largest hospital in the country Siriraj Hospital, and Huawei Technologies have opened a 5G smart hospital project in the country.

Rural communications firm NuRAN Wireless has signed a ten-year deal with MTN Group to deploy at least 250 sites across rural South Sudan.

Telekom Malaysia has signed an agreement with state-owned wholesale operator Digital Nasional Berhad (DNB) that will see the latter lease fibre as it seeks to accelerate its nationwide 5G deployment.

Polish telecommunications provider Orange Polska (Orange Poland) has deployed private LTE and 5G networks at Nokia's factory and R&D facility in the city of Bydgoszcz.

Indosat Ooredoo is shuttering its fixed broadband unit Indosat Mega Media (IM2) on the orders of the South Jakarta District Attorney.

Omantel has signed a multi-year agreement with Optiva to upgrade Optiva Charging Engine to a cloud-native architecture on Omantel’s private cloud.

Indonesian telecommunications company PT Indosat Tbk (Indosat Ooredoo) established the 5G Experience Center in Surabaya, in partnership with Nokia, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS), and the University of Oulu Finland.

Nokia has been selected by Qatar’s Ooredoo Group to supply 5G CPEs and whole-home mesh WiFi solutions to residential and enterprise customers across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

WhatsApp shared the results of its pilot digital payments programme across 500 villages in the Indian states of Karnataka and Maharashtra.

Leading Colombian fibre optic networks service provider Integra Multisolutions (IMS) is to use SES’s satellite-based trunking services to enable it to extend and enhance fibre-like connectivity for Colombian municipalities with fewer than 100,000 inhabitants located out of the reach of terrestrial infrastructure.

Pakistani satellite communications systems integrator Supernet has signed an agreement with SatADSL allowing it to use the latter’s neXat platform.

Ooredoo Qatar has selected i2C Inc’s agile payments technology to help it launch modern payment solutions for its users in Qatar, including digital-first prepaid cards and mobile wallets.

China United Network Communications Group Co (China Unicom) and Huawei jointly launched the Promotion Initiative for Smart Super Sensing with partners, calling for more joint research, application innovation, and standardization in 5G integrated sensing and communications to build an ecosystem for the smart super sensing industry.

Two very different recently announced initiatives are hoping to make some progress with the vexed question of managing data centre power use and emissions.

Bharti Airtel, a major Indian communications and solutions provider, and Capgemini, which describes itself as a global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation, have announced that they will collaborate on bringing 5G-based enterprise-grade solutions to the Indian market.

As the debate over whether a single wholesale 5G network will be rolled out in Malaysia rumbles on, it seems that some of the country’s operators are now arguing for a second 5G provider.

Omantel, the leading integrated telecom services provider in Oman, has selected the JUPITER System from Hughes Network Systems, a major name in satellite and multi-transport technologies and networks, to extend its mobile networks.

Mongolian operator Unitel has selected SLA Digital as its managed service provider for carrier billing.

Bangladesh state-run operator Teletalk has partnered with leading global ICT solution provider Huawei to roll out 5G in the South Asian country.

Nozomi Networks and the Saudi Telecom Company (STC) partner to deliver OT(operational technology) and IoT (internet of things)security services and solutions for customers in a wide range of industries within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).

MENA’s largest Open Banking platform Tarabut Gateway has announced a partnership with Zain Bahrain to provide the region’s first use case of Open Banking payments within a telco app.

Indonesian digital communications company Indosat Ooredoo and Groundhog Technologies, a Mobility Intelligence provider, are developing an on-demand advertising software platform Programmatic, which aims to provide data-driven digital advertising solutions that help marketers achieve optimal advertising of Advertising Services.

Pan-African operator Airtel Africa and Ericsson have announced the launch of a data centre in the East African island country of the Seychelles.

Russia’s largest integrated digital company Rostelecom and VEB Ventures, a company of the VEB.RF group signed an agreement on the formation of the Atlas joint venture to create a fundamentally new backbone fiber-optic communication line (FOCL) Transit Europe – Asia of a new generation (TEA NEXT).

Indonesia and Huawei mull the expansion of the partnership between digital transformation and a number of initiatives to develop digitalization, 5G, AI, and new energy.