Ka-band satellite communications will drive an inflight connectivity agreement coming to the Chinese market.
Vodafone Idea is expanding its Network as a Platform agreement with Mavenir, enabling a distributed presence across all the major industrial, commercial, and services clusters in India.
Vendor Nokia and operator Hutchison 3 Indonesia (3ID) have announced the completion of what is described as the first 5G end-to-end live network trial in Indonesia.
To improve broadband coverage governments need to update laws and regulations that are restricting funding and right of way acquisition, according to Chen KuanHong.
Ongoing plans for 5G rollout in South America have reached a new stage in Chile and Peru this week.
Myanmar’s state-run operator MPT has been granted a mobile financial services licence by the country’s central bank after a lengthy approval process.
Nokia’s Nuage Networks SD-WAN 2.0 solution has been picked up by two major cloud/digital service providers active in the Middle East.
A major new digital payments initiative has been launched across 14 African countries. Will it transform the digital payments landscape?
Rwanda’s Mara Group has launched two smartphones, which it describes as the first Made in Africa models.
Seaborn Networks and EdgeUno are launching managed cloud and data centre services in Latin America in an expansion of their partnership.
Kia Motors India, a division of the South Korean company Kia Motors, is planning to utilize IoT Solutions from Vodafone Idea Business Services, a division of the Indian operator Vodafone Idea, to enable an array of connected car services.
Telefónica is developing direct carrier billing (DCB) in partnership with Docomo Digital to accelerate the adoption of content and digital services among its subscribers in Latin America.
Kuwait-headquartered mobile telecommunications company Zain Group has announced that its operation in Saudi Arabia has launched 5G commercial services.
Vodafone is using technology from Parallel Wireless to deploy macro OpenRAN pilots in Turkey and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as part of an initiative to reduce deployment and maintenance costs for RAN platforms.
Hard on the heels of the announcement of 5G trials in the country, one of Malaysia’s leading mobile network operators, Maxis, has signed a deal with China’s Huawei Technologies for the provisioning of a 5G network.
Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) is now offering commercial 4G services across several cities in the country.
Mobile data usage in India has increased threefold since last year, with the average monthly usage hitting 9.77GB at the end of June this year.
Over 25 million mobile phone users in South Africa now have access to mobile internet basics at no cost – and signs are that the new offering – from Vodacom – is already very popular.
Nepal Telecom is extending its 4G network services offering to around 25 cities beyond the Kathmandu Valley.
Satellite operator SES has announced the launch of Ethiosat – the first-ever dedicated Ethiopian TV platform to host Ethiopia’s most popular local channels.
MainOne, which recently announced plans for a new data centre facility in Ghana, has made news again, this time in Cote d’Ivoire.
As 4G-related activity continues across Africa there’s news of promotional efforts in Senegal and an imminent rollout in Zanzibar.
Cable operator Seacom has told South African press that it has lit up a one terabyte fibre line connecting Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Hard on the heels of last week’s news that MainOne is to expand its data centre brand into Accra in Ghana, US-based First Brick Holdings has announced that it is entering the Ethiopian market.
Among many 5G demonstrations planned or recently held, two that certainly put 5G centre stage – almost literally – are in Myanmar and Brazil.
Facebook is inviting applications for the third edition of its London accelerator programme, which, for the first time, is open to start-ups from Africa.
Global sales of smartphones to end users declined 1.7 percent in the second quarter of 2019, totalling 368 million units. However, demand for high-end smartphones has slowed at a greater rate than demand for midrange and low-end smartphones.
Hughes Network Systems recently announced a high-speed satellite internet service for Mexico. Now it’s the turn of Viasat.
Satellite news relevant to Mexican consumers, as well as industry in the wider Latin American region, comes in the form of recent announcements from Hughes Network Systems and a new entity called AXESS Networks.
Moroccan operator inwi has recently launched a new mobile money service called ‘inwi money’. The service works on mobiquity Money, a platform offered by mobile solutions provider Comviva.
MainOne, a provider of telecom services and network solutions for businesses in West Africa, has announced the expansion of its data centre brand, MDXi, into Accra in Ghana, in line with its ongoing West African expansion plans.
Malaysia, Nigeria and Bolivia have all been trialling 5G – at least one of them with an eye to 5G rollout in 2020.
The continuing rollout of innovative financial services for those with limited, or no, access to banks is also inspiring all sorts of innovation, including a concept that its originator Juvo calls Financial Identity as a Service (FiDaaS).
At the Mobile 360 Series – Digital Societies conference in Kuala Lumpur the GSMA, which represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, has launched the fourth edition of what it calls a key annual report on the region.
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