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Pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom is to launch the first 5G wholesale roaming service in South Africa.

Further good news for connectivity across the African continent comes with the announcement of a successful new launch from satellite operator Eutelsat Communications.

Prysmian Group, a leading name in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, is to undertake a major cable supply project in Mexico to bring broadband to remote regions.

In a move that make innovative use of satellite technology, digital agriculture company Farmers Edge and insurance group Fairfax Brasil have partnered to bring customized, data-driven crop insurance to growers in Brazil.

Orange Jordan, a provider of telecommunications services in Jordan, officially launched its mobile e-wallet service, Orange Money, at a special event this week.

Telkomsel, the largest wireless carrier in Indonesia, has selected the MaX UC portfolio from cloud native communications software supplier Metaswitch  to enable it to offer unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) services to the broader business market.

A certification award for a drone service offered by a Middle Eastern mobile telecommunications company could boost opportunities for drone-based communications and inspection services in the region.

Avaroa Cable Ltd (ACL), a wholesale fibre optic operator providing managed wholesale connectivity services to and between the Cook Islands, has confirmed that the Manatua One Polynesia submarine cable system has successfully been brought ashore in Rutaki village, Rarotonga, in the Cook Islands.

Local press reports indicate that undersea cable repairs on three internet cables connected to Vietnam are soon to conclude, enabling faster internet connectivity after a number of breakdowns and disruptions.

Thales Alenia Space, which designs satellite-based systems, is to build a satellite for Spanish satellite telecommunications operator Hispasat. Its coverage area will include Latin America.

As the Indian government this week inaugurated work on submarine cables between Chennai and the Andaman Nicobar Islands, reports indicate that Reliance Jio may have ambitious plans of its own in the submarine cable area.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has released draft guidelines aimed at boosting the use of television white spaces (TVWS) to improve rural connectivity in the country.

Indian operator Bharti Airtel has announced that its recently-launched voice over WiFi network service – Airtel WiFi Calling – has passed the one million user mark and that countrywide rollout will be accelerated.

Paraguay expects its national fibre-optic network (Red Nacional de Fibra Optica, or RNFO) to be complete by February.

Tajikistan’s ZET-Mobile has completed a large-scale expansion of its LTE network.

UAE operator Etisalat has announced two firsts in recent days: the launch of a business unified communication service and the deployment of Open vRAN technology.

Telefonica, one of the largest telephone operators and mobile network providers in the world, with a strong presence in Europe and the Americas, is to sell a number of its towers and tower sites in Ecuador and Colombia.

American Tower Corporation, an owner and operator of wireless and broadcast communications infrastructure in several countries worldwide, has announced two deals – involving Eaton Towers and MTN – that, it says, will boost its presence in Africa.

SETAR, a communications provider in the Caribbean island country Aruba, has expanded its current partnership with Nokia with an agreement to provide what is described as a full end-to-end 5G network transformation.

MTN has announced that its mobile money service, MoMo, already available in a number of African countries, will go live in South Africa in January 2020.

Vodafone Idea Business Services (VIBS), the enterprise arm of Indian operator Vodafone Idea, has announced the launch of Vodafone Secure Device Manager (VSDM), powered by IBM Security MaaS360, a unified end-point management (UEM) system.

The Agency for Aerial Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) and satellite systems company Aireon have come to an agreement regarding the use of space-based ADS-B for surveillance services.

According to Japanese press reports, global technology and services provider NTT Ltd is planning to lay a new submarine cable connecting Myanmar and India.

It’s long been clear that data centres make enormous demands on energy consumption. A new report suggests that 5G will make the situation much worse.

Nokia has signed a contract with telecommunications giant TIM to provide Internet of Things (IoT) services to its enterprise customers in Brazil.

Payments solutions providers FSS (Financial Software and Systems and Arab Financial Services (AFS) have entered into an agreement to bring omni-channel payment acceptance solutions to banks in the region.

Algeria has completed a cross-border fibre-optic network link with Mauritania.

Start-up firm CHT Holdings Dominicana is planning to use infrastructure from Dominican electricity firm ETED (Empresa de Transmision Electrica Dominicana) to increase the country’s options for broadband connectivity.

According to local press reports, Philippines operator NOW Telecom has signed a memorandum of understanding with Aboitiz InfraCapital and Frontier Tower Associates to support the government’s common tower initiatives.