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Kazakhstan’s largest operator Kcell has tapped Gilat Satellite Networks for a cellular backhaul project that will provide connectivity to hundreds of rural villages.

Thailand’s True Move will deploy ZTE’s 5G RAN equipment in its nationwide tri-band network.

Leading Kenyan operator Safaricom has announced the launch of a scheme that will allow customers to access a brand new 4G-enabled smartphone by paying as little as KES20 (about $0.19) daily for the devices.

Claro Colombia has started deploying its 700MHz 4G network in Bogota and Ciudad Salitre.

Underlining the growing business interest in African online finance, two more digital commerce-related deals have recently been announced.

Ooredoo Qatar has launched a Nokia-powered cloud-native core network for commercial 5G services.

In what is described as a “tech milestone”, operator Ooredoo Qatar and Ericsson have successfully trialled 200MHz mid-band spectrum and achieved a claimed record system throughput of 4.2 Gbps using the latest Ericsson Radio System products.

dtac has partnered with Nokia to deploy 5G/4G equipment in selected areas of Thailand.

Telefonica Moviles Mexico (Movistar) is enabling customers in several new regions of the market to access 4G services for the first time.

Orange has deployed spectrum capacity with Infinera’s submarine solution on its MainOne submarine cable, a new network built to provide large-scale international capacity to support the development of a digital ecosystem in West Africa.

According to the New Zealand press a new internet cable connecting New Zealand, Chile and Australia may be on the way, but plans to include China seem to have been abandoned.

Iran’s Deputy Minister of Information and Communication Technology has claimed that the country has completed successful trials of 5G technology.

Telekom Slovenije is now delivering Slovenia’s first commercial 5G services via its 2600MHz spectrum.

Millicom, a leading provider of cable and mobile services in Latin America, has selected virtualized cable access and video delivery solution company Harmonic as its strategic partner to build what is described as a high-speed broadband infrastructure of the future.

Pan-African telecommunications and mobile money services company Airtel Africa has announced a deal with African remittance organisation Mukuru.

Liberian incumbent operator Libtelco is looking to push its broadband offering outwards from the country’s capital of Monrovia.

Orange has partnered with bancassurance leader NSIA to launch Orange Bank Africa in Abidjan and Côte d’Ivoire.

Leaders of the four nations behind the Manatua One Polynesia Cable Project have announced that the cable was accepted last week from turnkey supplier SubCom.

Turkcell is deploying Odine's end-to-end wholesale voice management platform to drive business automation and routing intelligence for its wholesale voice interconnect network.

Kacific has signed a five-year agreement with the Government of Tuvalu to provide the Pacific Island nation with high-speed broadband internet connectivity via satellite.

5G trials are on the way to Algeria and Mexico, according to recent reports, though the uses of 5G being tested will be very different.

A 4G-enabling analogue TV switch-off is almost complete in Cape Verde.

Orange Guinea Sonatel is implementing Alepo’s authentication authorisation and accounting (AAA) platform to digitise its FTTH offering.

Bharti Airtel has renewed its agreement with Ericsson to provide pan-India managed network operations.

MTS Belarus has nearly doubled data usage on its network after a substantial infrastructure deployment in the first half of this year.

SystemOne is using SIMs from Telecom 26 to enable real-time test result communication, timely containment and treatment actions for infectious disease programs in Ghana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

Telecom Namibia has announced the recent extension of its 3G and 4G mobile services to both urban and rural areas across the country – and there’s much more to come.

According to reports in the Brazilian press, Telefonica, which owns the Vivo brand, is to join Claro and TIM in bringing 5G to Brazil.

Nokia has won an IP/MPLS network deal with Thailand’s True Group.

Orange has selected Parallel Wireless to extend its coverage across multiple African markets, beginning with the Central African Republic.

Omantel has selected Ericsson to support the Sultanate’s ongoing 5G radio access network (RAN) deployment plans in a multi-year partnership.

Sri Lanka Telecom is deploying a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network based on Nokia’s fibre technology.