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Ethio Telecom’s new mobile money service Telebirr apparently registered over one million users in the week after its launch. Now, according to some reports, registrations have passed the three million mark.

Following yesterday’s news that CG NET will deploy a new fibre-to-the-home network across the Kathmandu Valley, Nokia has confirmed that it is the sole supplier for the system.

Vietnamobile has signed a multi-year deal with CSG to drive customer billing, mediation and settlement operations in order to support its growth as it introduces new products and services.

Indian telecom operator Reliance Jio and US-based chipmaker Qualcomm Technologies have collaborated for local manufacturing of critical equipment to catalyze the 5G ecosystem in India.

Middle East’s first privately owned submarine cable system Gulf Bridge International (GBI) and Versa Networks, a vendor in the SD-WAN and SD-Security market, have extended its long-standing collaboration with GBI joining the Versa ACE Partner Program.

Chaudhary Group, a Nepalese conglomerate which boasts over 100 companies under its umbrella and an investment outlay of over $1 billion, has announced the launch of a fibre internet service in Nepal.

UFINET, a neutral infrastructure wholesale operator in Latin America, has announced its selection of ICE6 800G coherent technology from Infinera, a global supplier of open optical networking solutions, for its new national long-haul network in Colombia.

Slovenian fixed and mobile operator T-2 has completed the buyout of regional telco Telesat.

Russian integrated telecommunications operator Megafon has started testing Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) in the city of St Petersburg.

PLDT wireless arm Smart Communications, the first to launch 5G in the Philippines, has fired up more than 3,000 5G sites across the country as of May.

Polarium which provides energy storage solutions built on lithium-ion technology for the telecom, commercial, and industrial segments, has announced a new deal with ATC Africa, the African subsidiary of American Tower Corporation.

Brazilian regional ISP Mob Telecom has  announced an agreement with Angola Cables, a multinational operator in the fibre optic telecommunications sector, to strengthen its data centre offering.

Operator Orange Bissau has announced the launch of a programme to modernise its mobile access network and extend its rural coverage to more than 1,000 new villages in Guinea Bissau.

As India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has allocated the spectrum and agreed on trials and testing of 5G, more companies are showing interest in the 5th generation mobile network and technologies, said a study.

Apple Inc. has officially put its first Chinese data center in the southwestern province of Guizhou into operation over three years after it started building the facility to store customer data within the country's borders.

Driven by strong growth in fixed broadband service adoption, Indonesia’s fixed communications services market revenue is set to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.3% from US$2.9bn in 2020 to US$5.3bn by 2025.

Brazilian mobile market leader Telefonica Brasil (Vivo) performed tests with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the native operation of the core of a 5G standalone (5G SA) network in the cloud, and the results were validated for the performance parameters of a 5G SA network.

The trans-Arctic submarine cable project - Arctic Connect - that has been under planning for several years by Russian operator Megafon and its Finnish partner Cinia has been suspended for further assessment.

Poland-based provider of international geographic telephone numbers (Direct Inward Dialing or DID and International Toll-Free Services or ITFS) DidXL has announced the availability of a new local termination outbound calling service in 22 countries.

Malaysian operator Celcom is set to expand its fixed broadband operations via a new agreement with Allo.

'Bezeq' The Israel Telecommunication Corp announced that its deployment of an ultra-fast fibre optics network had reached 480,000 homes. Chief Executive David Mizrahi said he expected to reach 1 million households by the end of 2021.

China Telecom reached a new milestone as its 5G Narrow Band-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) user base grew to more than 100 million.

Chinese telecommunications major ZTE Corporation has built a base station and completed several kilometres of wireless coverage around the station at the K2 base camp for the world’s second-highest peak, intending to build a strong communication network for climbers.

Brazil's statutory bodies have approved the Provisional Measure (MP) to cut fees for satellite services to make access to broadband internet cheap.

It’s not every day we announce an operator deal to attract customers, but the latest campaign by leading Kenyan operator Safaricom arguably has wider significance than a mere marketing ploy.

The developer-owner-operator of submarine fiber optic cable systems Seaborn Networks and the broadband network operator in Brazil Webby Internet have formed a connectivity partnership.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon, plans to open an infrastructure region in the UAE in the first half of 2022.

Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centers (STT GDC) entered the Indonesian data centre market, as part of a new joint venture with Jakarta-based Indonesian conglomerate Triputra Group and global investment firm Temasek.

Telkom Kenya’s mobile money platform T-Kash has now been integrated as a payment option of Kenya’s government digital services platform, eCitizen.

Raxio has officially launched what it calls Uganda’s first state-of-the-art Tier III carrier-neutral data centre at its site in the Kampala Industrial and Business Park (KIBP).

Fresh off revealing an ambitious expansion plan for its VoLTE network, Indonesia’s Telkomsel has announced that it aims to launch a commercial 5G network this week.

Filipino newcomer DITO Telecommunity has selected Nokia to deploy 5G services on the island of Mindanao.