OTT services continue to be a hot topic lately, as recent news from India and Latin America proves.
Mobile payment technology and services have received a potential boost in the Philippines with the recent news of a major sales subscription for leading Philippines’ digital technology company, Voyager Innovations.
Africa is said to be a high-priority market for UAE-headquartered satellite communications services provider Yahsat and it certainly seems to be proving that with the recent announcement that it is providing internet services through its broadband offering YahClick in Cameroon.
Digicel has certainly come a long way since it was an upstart operator entering the Jamaican market in 2001.
Brazilian airline Latam, part of the Chilean-Brazilian Latam Airlines Group – the largest airline in Latin America with subsidiaries in Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru – has launched in-flight WiFi on board nine A319 aircraft in domestic routes.
There’s been much excitement over the recent news that the South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) is ready for commercial service, but another important undersea cable connectivity project involving Africa is also about to make history.
An interesting development in the ongoing infrastructure sharing debate came in the form of a recent presentation by the Philippines’ Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) of a new policy on infrastructure sharing.
Fixed and mobile customers of Movistar Chile can now subscribe and pay for Netflix on their bill.
According to a recent report on the Chinese technology website c114.net, a few days ago China’s IMT-2020 (5G) Promotion Group has completed a third phase of non-standalone (NSA) trials.
A new report suggests that Indonesia can have a major role in the spread of digital communications services throughout Southeast Asia if it gives mobile operators access to vital spectrum bands.
A recent IMF report, 2018 Financial Access Survey, published at the end of September, underlines again the importance of mobile money in low-income countries.
The collection, storage, and usage of customer data is a hot-button issue across the telecoms industry post-Cambridge Analytica, particularly within Europe following the introduction of the EU’s GDPR laws.
The South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) is now on-stream and open for commercial traffic.
Israeli data security firm C-Data has selected CloudBlue’s digital commerce platform for its cloud services division.
Malaysian data network provider Celcom Axiata Berhad has signed an agreement with Ericsson to expand and upgrade its LTE network in Malaysia.
Global telecommunication systems and solutions vendor Intracom Telecom has joined forces with COMATEC in order to deploy an IPTV solution in a luxurious compound in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Myanmar’s two biggest mobile providers are picking up the pace of their 4G deployments.
E-learning solutions provider Astria Learning has renewed its partnership with MTN Zambia, which will see the operator provide free Internet access to students completing online courses.
Nexans has manufactured and tested 6,000 km of submarine fibre optic cables for the South Atlantic Inter Link (SAIL) project connecting Cameroon to Brazil, enabling a faster and more stable Internet connection between Africa and South America.
A new low-cost satellite broadband service will be launched across Iraq and Afghanistan as SatADSL and Talia agreed to expand their long-term partnership.
Orange is providing significant investment to MainOne’s West Africa submarine cable system.
DOCOMO Digital has partnered with Vodacom in Tanzania to give customers the option to pay for content on the Google Play Store using Vodacom Airtime carrier billing.
The Papua New Guinea Sustainable Development Programme (PNGSDP) has partnered with Digicel to execute a new telecommunications vision to benefit present and future generations in the country’s Western Province.
The second quarter of 2018 saw renewed growth in the Philippines’ smartphone market, with Chinese brands increasing their share of this market.
GTT Communications is upgrading its fibre network across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).
Mobile platform and services provider Syntonic is forming a new Brazilian unit to expand into South America following its asset purchase of the Zenvia Mobile Servicos Digitais business unit.
Fenix International, part of global utility ENGIE, has reached 30,000 Zambian households just 9 months after expanding into the country in partnership with telecom MTN.
Orange Digital Ventures Africa has made a second investment in South African mobile points of sale (mPOS) firm Yoco.
GlobeNet and Facebook have begun construction of the new submarine cable system that they announced in May.
Sky and Space Global, which works to provide affordable communications to the world's equatorial regions, has expanded its reach into Indonesia and Suriname.
BringCom has completed its acquisition of Datanet in Uganda after receiving final approval from the Uganda Communications Commission.
This year’s Operations Transformation Forum was held in Munich, and Developing Telecoms was in attendance to find out about how operators in emerging markets are looking to improve the efficiency of their networks and businesses.
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