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5G activity continues apace in the Middle East, with a new smart campus initiative announced in Saudi Arabia and a 26GHz 5G launch planned for the UAE – potentially this year.

In what it describes as a regional first, Zain Group, a mobile telecom company working in eight markets across the Middle East and Africa, has announced a tower leaseback deal.

Ooredoo a communications company with a customer base of more than 100 million across the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia, has announced a new IoT initiative in Qatar: an industrial metering solution.

Millicom, under its Tigo brand, has selected Affirmed Networks, which supports mobile network 5G transformation, as a strategic partner for the deployment of its cloud-based, 5G-ready core network in Latin America.

Telecom Argentina has signed a deal with Nokia allowing it to offer IoT services to its enterprise customers in the country and across Latin America using Nokia Worldwide IoT Network Grid (WING).

East Africa’s YOTVChannels and MTN Uganda have introduced a new TV streaming plan in Uganda that includes mobile users in its target audience.

Ukraine is allowing the repurposing of 800MHz and 900MHz spectrum to facilitate deployments of 4G/LTE mobile networks.

Comtech Telecommunications Corp subsidiary Comtech EF Data Corp has selected by Bansat S.A. to supply satellite communications ground equipment to support the Aeronautica Civil de Colombia’s backup communications network for 28 airports in Colombia.

Recent figures released by the Emirates News Agency confirm what many of us suspected: connectivity in the UAE has reached extraordinary levels.

High-performance internet connectivity was restored in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) within just four days after the West Africa Cable System (WACS) undersea cable cut, thanks to the combined efforts of Gilat Telecom and SES.

There’s finally some good news about repairs to the West Africa Cable System (WACS) submarine fibre cable – at least for subscribers in South Africa.

Orange’s local unit in Slovakia, Orange Slovensko, has selected Nokia to prepare its Radio Access Network for 5G.

Another country is to bid farewell to CDMA as Nepal Telecom says it will switch off CDMA services by July 2021.

Repairs to submarine cables bringing internet connectivity to Vietnam have been rescheduled.

5G continues to make news as five Thai operators submit bids for spectrum and a Polish operator claims it is ready to commercialise 5G.

Mavenir has deployed its cloud-native, converged IMS solution for both T-Mobile Czech Republic (TMCZ) and Slovak Telekom (ST).

According to media reports from East Africa, Airtel Tanzania plans to more than double the number of its 4G network sites following the recent issuing of a permit.

Uzbekistan’s Ucell has partnered with P.I. Works to implement an integrated network and business performance management platform.

Speedcast Government, which provides mission-critical communications for military, government, non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations, is supporting a UN agency and an independent national electoral committee in Niger in their mission to ensure that no electoral fraud takes place.

With data demand growing in the country, Indonesian operator PT XL Axiata has announced what appears to be a fairly aggressive fibre-optic network deployment.

The recent SAT-3/WASC and WACS cable system problems that disrupted services in a number of African countries have still to be completely solved, although restoration of services seems to be getting closer, according to local press reports.

In a fairly turbulent week for telecoms, there has at least been one encouraging piece of telecommunications news: an education-linked story from Zimbabwe – or rather from a Zimbabwean AI expert.

Myanmar’s state-owned MPT has launched its mobile money platform after getting the green light from the country’s central bank in October last year.

Speedcast International Ltd, a provider of remote communications and IT services, has announced that is has been awarded a 12-month contract with a mobile operator in Mexico.

Iridium Communications Inc calls it the first and only satellite cloud-based solution offering truly global coverage for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. This week the satellite communications giant announced that Iridium CloudConnect is up and running.

Qatar has launched its first Internet exchange point.

A cable company working across multiple regions has high hopes for its latest project which, it says, is designed for poorer countries with limited internet connectivity.

Djibouti and Somaliland are at loggerheads over the installation and proposed route of the DARE1 (Djibouti Africa Regional Express 1) submarine cable.

OneWeb has partnered with Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) to boost broadband connectivity in Kazakhstan.

In an extraordinary series of announcements, the giant Chinese equipment maker ZTE has highlighted the potential role of telecommunications in disease management – and specifically management of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak in China.