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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.

The Egyptian government has started steps to raise the efficiency of basic communications services in the Sinai Peninsula.

We know that China has pledged to hit peak carbon emissions by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2060. But will the rush to develop data centres get in the way? It seems that central government thinks it could.

Nepal’s Vianet Communications is expanding its high speed fibre network in the west of the country with China Telecom subsidiary CCS (China Communication Service).

Israeli telecommunications company Bezeq has selected Ribbon Communications to carry increasing IP traffic loads via a new flexgrid 400G optical backbone network with multi-degree DWDM (Dense Wave Division Multiplexing).

CVTelecom (Cabo Verde Telecom) and Angola Cables have signed a joint cooperation agreement to identify synergies to expand connectivity and network capabilities.

Leading Indian operator Bharti Airtel has selected Juniper Networks, which specialises in secure, AI-driven networks, to deliver network upgrades for the expansion of Airtel’s nationwide broadband coverage across India.

Two major names in their fields, LOGOS and Pure Data Centres, are planning to partner in order to develop data centres across the Asia Pacific region.

Mavenir, the network software provider, announced that T-Mobile has become the first operator in the Czech Republic to enable customers who own select smartwatches, to connect to their existing mobile number.

Chilean regulator Subtel and the regional government of Ñuble in southern Chile have signed an agreement for a fibre optic and last mile programme.

Recent deals in Kenya and South Africa have highlighted the continuing expansion of the African SME market and the growing number of African fintech and specialist communications companies serving SMEs.