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Avanti Communications has signed a Master Service Agreement on Avanti’s HYLAS 4 satellite with Logical Wireless, a South African Satellite integrator.

Lebanese operator Alfa is deploying 4.5G Pro technology using the Nokia AirScale 5G-ready radio platform following a recent successful test of the technology.

Vietnam is looking towards 5G, with four operators expected to receive licences for testing 5G services in January next year.

Nokia has deployed its 5G site for the South African operator rain in time for the operator to launch 5G services ahead of AfricaCom 2018.

MTN has partnered with KaiOS to launch the world’s first 3G smart feature phones in Africa.

RCS-Communication, a leading ISP in South Sudan, has established the first site for Avanti’s HYLAS 4 high-speed satellite broadband service in-country.

Teraco’s data centre clients in Cape Town and Johannesburg are set to benefit from the cross connection to the South Atlantic Cable System (SACS).

First Brick Holdings has announced plans for multiple investments to boost the digitalisation of East and Southern Africa with the funding, and development, of several data centres across the region.

Over the past twelve months, the number of African networks that have joined France-IX in Paris and Marseille has increased by 60% and traffic from African ISPs has increased by 90%.

FreeConferenceCall.com has launched free conference calling in Uganda.

Indonesia’s government has made a commitment to ensure telecommunications and broadband access for the country’s fast growing population of 267 million people.

The four mobile operators active in Myanmar are launching a collaborative campaign to raise awareness of possible pitfalls related to data usage.

Vodacom Mozambique has signed an agreement with Intelsat SA for a satellite solution to deliver 3G services to meet the growing data demand generated by the country’s tourism sector.

African tech player Mara has announced their newest product, the Maraphone – the first made-in-Africa, full-scale smartphone, soon to be manufactured in plants across Africa.

Thailand’s second largest operator group True Corp has extended its strategic convergence transformation engagement with Amdocs for ongoing development and support until end of 2021.

CETel is set to deliver fibre-like connectivity into Africa via the medium earth orbit (MEO) satellite constellation O3b.

Vodafone Romania has selected mobile carrier payment solutions provider RGK Mobile to deliver carrier billing services for its customers.

EdgeConneX has acquired the Linxdatacenter facility in Warsaw, Poland.

Hutchison 3 Indonesia has implemented Nokia's Spectral Performance Management solution to increase its network efficiency and boost customer experience.

Parallel Wireless has partnered with Ghana’s LTE network Telesol to connect citizens and businesses in Ghana with 4G wireless services.

MDXI has partnered with global IXP platform provider Asteroid to launch a carrier-neutral Internet Exchange Point (IXP) for West Africa.

Huawei has selected Zain Group as a strategic partner in deploying its cloud services in Kuwait and across the Middle East and North Africa region.

Indian state-owned operator BSNL has selected Nokia to support the transformation of cities through intelligent infrastructure.

Megaport and Orixcom have partnered to enable enterprises and carriers with facilities in the Middle East with direct access to leading Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Cloud Service Providers (CSPs).

Angola Cables has entered into a strategic business partnership with Silica Networks in Argentina and Silica Networks in Chile to connect their terrestrial fibre networks to the recently commissioned South Atlantic Cable System (SACS).

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Vivo has formed a new long-term partnership with Taboola to bring personalised news to mobile users across Asia.

Polish operator Netia is deploying Nokia’s Unified Cable Access solution to significantly increase the network capacity needed to support surging bandwidth demands.

Suntech has signed a non-exclusive business alliance agreement with Cyient, a provider of engineering, manufacturing, geospatial, digital, network and operations management solutions.