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GPX Global Systems Inc, a provider of carrier-neutral edge data centre services in Africa and South Asia, has announced the official opening of its second data centre in Mumbai.

Agricultural analytics company CropX has announced a partnership with Costa Rican agroforestry equipment vendor FarmAgro to provide satellite-powered precision agriculture tools to farmers in Central America.

Chile’s Grupo Gtd has signed a multi-year agreement to use Netcracker’s comprehensive support services for SLA management, problem lifecycle management and resolution, quality assurance and testing and more.

Alphabet Inc, owner of Google, plans to bring the internet to remote areas by balloon – and Kenya is on the list.

5G trials are continuing in multiple territories, but 4G is still rolling out in many developing countries.

Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat), a global satellite operator based in the United Arab Emirates, and broadband satellite networks and services company Hughes Network Systems have announced the commencement of a joint venture to provide satellite broadband services in Brazil.

According to local press reports, Ooredoo Maldives, part of international communications company, Ooredoo, whose operations span the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia, has launched a voice-over-Wi-Fi (VoWiFi) service called Wi-Fi Calling.

Madagascar has signed a modernisation agreement with China in a bid to overhaul its telecoms sector.

The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) has reported plans to build a new engineering design facility that, it suggests, will bring immense benefits to the space industry in South Africa.

Liquid Telecom South Africa, part of the pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom, together with a consortium of telecommunications companies, has officially inaugurated the landing station of the Melting Pot Indianoceanic Submarine System (METISS).

Integrated ICT and infrastructure provider Vox has entered into a partnership with Angola Cables that will give it remote peering access to the undersea South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) linking Africa with the Americas.

Satellite communications operators the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) and Azerbaijan’s  Azercosmos have signed a cooperation agreement relating to satellite communications and broadcasting services.

Operators Djibouti Telecom, Somtel Somalia and Telkom Kenya, along with SubCom, which designs, manufactures, deploys, maintains and operates fibre optic cable networks, have announced that all manufacturing aspects for the Djibouti Africa Regional Express 1 (DARE1) submarine cable system are complete.

Satellite-based systems designer Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with the Egyptian operator Nilesat to build the Nilesat-301 geostationary communications satellite.

MainOne, a provider of telecom services and network solutions for businesses in West Africa, has announced that its submarine cable in Cote d’Ivoire is live and ready for service.

The African Development Bank and Microsoft have launched what they call the Coding for Employment digital training platform (Coding4Employment.org), described as an online tool to provide digital skills to African youth, wherever they are across the continent.

Local carrier SCCI and New Zealand submarine cable system operator Hawaiki Submarine Cable have signed a multi-million-dollar contract to provide SCCI with a turnkey solution to connect the island nation of New Caledonia to Hawaiki.

The African space industry is enjoying enormous growth, according to the recently published African Space Industry Annual Report.

Orange Poland has selected Juniper Networks to enhance the resilience and automation capabilities of its IP network core.

ZASpace is the name of a new South African organisation that will, it is hoped, galvanize the country’s geospatial industry and bridge the skills deficit in this sector.

Recent local press reports, along with news from satellite launch company Arianespace, indicate that Egypt has successfully launched the telecommunications satellite TIBA- 1.

Ooredoo Kuwait has selected Fortinet to provide its secure SD-WAN managed service.

If you needed further proof of the diversification of what was once a dedicated e-commerce company, the fact that the Amazon subsidiary Amazon Web Services recently announced the expansion of AWS Ground Station in the Middle East should give some indication.

More 5G activity has been reported in two very different markets in West Africa: Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, and Gabon, whose population, at an estimated 2.1 million, is a little over one hundredth the size of Nigeria’s.

Malaysian satellite operator MEASAT and satellite services provider Arianespace have announced the signing of a launch services contract for MEASAT-3d that could boost 4G and 5G growth in Malaysia.

You wouldn’t necessarily describe it as unobtrusive, but Mynmar’s first telecom tower constructed from bamboo, which has been installed in Thanlyin, a major port city, is certainly sustainable.

The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) is coming to South Africa for the first IAA Symposium on Small Satellites in Africa.

A plan to upgrade communications infrastructure connecting the major Myanmar cities of Nay Pyi Taw, Yangon and Mandalay, along with the Thilawa Special Economic Zone (SEZ), has been announced.

Described by international operator Eutelsat as a major contribution to reducing the digital divide in Africa and Europe, Eutelsat’s KONNECT satellite is now ready to ship to its launch site with a launch planned for mid-January 2020.

Wiicom has tapped Intracom Telecom for a network delivering mobile and ultra-broadband services to residential consumers and businesses across Cameroon that cannot be reached by fibre.

IT services, consulting and business solutions organization Tata Consultancy Services has announced the launch, in collaboration with wireless technology giant Qualcomm Technologies Inc, of what it calls a first-of-its-kind Innovation Hub in Hyderabad, India.