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Thailand’s True Digital Group, Vietnam’s VNPT Technology and AIoT integration firm T3 Technology have officially kicked off an initiative to design, develop and sell AI-powered smart home solutions in Vietnam.

China Mobile Pakistan (CMPak, a.k.a. Zong 4G), announced on Friday it has signed a strategic partnership deal with local communication-as-a-service provider Eocean to launch a digital commerce-as-a-service (DCaaS) offering.

Veon-owned telco Banglalink announced on Thursday it has received regulatory clearance from Bangladesh Bank to operate as a digital payment service provider in Bangladesh as it seeks to expand into digital financial services.

Brazilian SaaS company Mambo WiFi and US-based decentralized wireless communications firm Helium say they have launched a new joint venture to bring Helium’s network of Wi-Fi offload hotspots to mobile users in Brazil.

Ericsson announced on Thursday it has signed a strategic microwave frame contract with Veon-owned digital operator Jazz to strengthen its network backbone in Pakistan.

API-enabled technology platform Setu, owned by payments technology company Pine Labs, has announced the launch of what it calls India’s first agentic bill-payments experience.

Southeast Asian wholesale connectivity provider SEAX has acquired a major stake in ITEL (Interlink Telecom), a Thai fixed network telecommunications provider.

Thai market leader AIS (Advanced Info Service) has tapped Netcracker for what the companies describe as the largest cloud deployment in Thailand.

Singapore-based data centre developer and operator Empyrion Digital announced on Tuesday it has secured regulatory approvals for its planned 200+MW hyperscale data centre campus in Johor, which will also be its first campus in Malaysia.

Edotco Bangladesh, an integrated telecommunications infrastructure services provider, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Telephone Shilpa Sangstha (TSS), a state-owned enterprise under the country's Posts and Telecommunications Division.

Q-KON, an African provider of satellite communications, has signed a strategic trilateral agreement with China’s Guodian Gaoke, a low-orbit communication satellite developer and operator, and satellite communication terminals and antennas specialist StarWin.

Telecom Fiji has officially joined the island nation’s 5G race after launching the first phase of its 5G service, several months after rival telcos Vodafone Fiji and Digicel Fiji launched their own services.

Philippine data centre developer and operator A-FLOW – the JV partnership between PAG-owned FLOW Digital Infrastructure and AyalaLand Logistics (ALLHC) – has officially launched its first data centre in the Philippines, over a year after the facility was topped off.

Veon-owned telco Beeline Kazakhstan announced on Monday it has kicked off construction of a Tier III hyperscale data centre in Almaty that aims to serve as the anchor for Kazakhstan’s sovereign cloud, AI compute and enterprise digital services ecosystem.

TenPay Global, the cross-border payment platform of Chinese multinational technology conglomerate Tencent, and Mastercard Move, payment giant Mastercard’s money movement business, have announced a collaboration.

It’s only been a week or two since its launch was formally announced, but it seems that Huawei’s RuralCow, a rapid-deployment, all-in-one mobile base station that provides mobile coverage to remote rural areas, has already made an impact in a major market.

Syria’s Central Bank (CBS) has announced a strategic partnership with Visa to accelerate the country’s integration into the global digital economy. Local press reports say that the agreement was formalised during a meeting at the Central Bank late last week.

South Africa's national broadband infrastructure company Broadband Infraco (BBI) has reportedly partnered with Huawei to build a national intelligent all-optical backbone network.

Australia-headquartered satellite IoT company Myriota has announced the general availability of what it says is the world’s first commercial 5G non-terrestrial network engineered for IoT.

TIM Group's global operator Sparkle says it has expanded its network in Chile with the launch of a third point of presence (PoP) in Santiago, which also marks its fourth PoP in the country overall.

Telkom Indonesia announced on Thursday it has inaugurated its 28th neuCentrIX Telkom edge data centre facility, which is also the first to be established in Jayapura in the eastern province of Papua.

Algeria’s Ministry of Post and Telecommunications has officially announced the launch of 5G rollouts following the approval of 5G licences issued to Mobilis, Djezzy and Ooredoo.

K-Towers, a tower infrastructure-as-a-service provider (and subsidiary of Singapore-headquartered next-generation broadband satellite operator Kacific), and UK-based PowerX, a data intelligence platform for optimising tower infrastructure, have announced a strategic partnership to modernise rural tower networks in the Pacific.

Bharti Airtel is making its network capabilities available to third-party developers through a Nokia developer portal platform.

Vantage Data Centers, a global provider of hyperscale data centre campuses, has announced that its fourth facility (KUL14) on the company’s first Cyberjaya campus in Malaysia is now operational, completing the development of the KUL1 campus.

Cameroon Telecommunications (Camtel) and Ethio Telecom are set to sign a master service agreement (MSA) on Thursday to cooperate on accelerating Camtel’s digital transformation, to include Camtel’s launch of its planned mobile money service, Blue Money.

Digital Realty says it will support BW Digital’s rollout of the Nongsa Changi Cable System (NCC) subsea cable linking Singapore and Indonesia, which will now also connect directly to Digital Realty’s SIN12 data centre in Batam.

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) announced on Tuesday it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Reliance Jio to introduce a safety alert system across the country’s national highways using Jio’s 4G and 5G network.

Angola Cables has reportedly launched its third cloud node in Angola as an extension of its pan-African Clouds2Africa platform, along with a new programme to provide free cloud services for startups and local entrepreneurs.

Hytera, a leading provider of critical communications technologies and solutions, and operator Vodafone Qatar have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) targeting some of the specific needs of Qatar's key industries.

Safaricom’s M-Pesa Ethiopia announced on Monday it has launched a new mobile money platform on Monday called M-Pesa LeHulum that works with any SIM card, effectively opening M-Pesa up to anyone regardless of what mobile network they use.