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Fibre optic cable manufacturer AFL is moving into the Indian market via a new partnership with Bangalore-based start-up Citadel Intelligent Systems.

Slovak Telekom has gone live with Netcracker's converged Revenue Management solution for its residential and VSE/SoHo customers.

Peter-Service and Rostelecom are launching a project to implement a unified CRM system for Russia’s B2B segment.

Nokia and China Unicom are deploying Nokia Flexi Zone small cells and an AirScale low power radio head in 31 provinces in China.

Solomon Telekom Company Limited, trading under the name Our Telekom, is boosting its capacity with SES Networks to support the launch of its upcoming 4G/LTE network across the Solomon Islands archipelago.

Ericsson has been selected by RCS & RDS to modernise its mobile network in Romania, allowing its Romanian subscribers to enjoy enhanced mobile broadband services.

Bango has launched operator-billed payments for Google Play users with 9mobile in Nigeria.

Mobile payment company Fortumo and mobile operator Telenor are launching direct carrier billing for consumers in Serbia.

Speedcast International has been selected by an affiliate of Nabors Industries to provide new IT communications equipment and cloud-based connectivity services to 40 land-based sites in Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and Argentina.

American Tower (ATC) is acquiring the tower units of both Vodafone India and Idea Cellular in separate agreements.

Orange Group has selected ZTE’s ZSmart Digital BSS to support the strategic transformation of the IT ecosystems in its subsidiaries in Cameroon, Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Eutelsat-owned satellite broadband service provider Konnect Africa has unveiled SmartWIFI, a new hotspot service, as part of its ongoing commitment to bring digital opportunities to Africans.

InterSat and ABS have launched iDirect platforms on ABS-3A C-band and Ku-band beams.

Speedcast and SES have announced an agreement to provide several hundreds of Mbps of connectivity into Peru.

Inmarsat and JT Group (formerly Jersey Telecom) have partnered to implement a holistic connectivity solution for Internet of Things (IoT) technology.

Moroccan IT brand Accent has selected Spreadtrum's LTE platform SC9832 and WCDMA//HSPA(+) platform SC7731C for its smartphones.

Intelsat S.A. and the Coca-Cola Company are working together to bring satellite-enabled Wi-Fi services to remote communities across Africa.

French Internet Peering Service Provider France-IX rapidly expanded its presence in Africa in 2017, positioning itself for African networks and content providers wishing to peer with its community of several hundreds of carriers, ISPs and content delivery networks.

Nokia and Vodacom have signed an MoU under which the companies will trial Nokia 5G technology to accelerate the launch of the new technology and enable Vodacom to drive digitalisation for the benefit of businesses and individuals in South Africa.

Mobily has awarded Ericsson a modernisation contract to upgrade its access network in the western region of Saudi Arabia, deploying the latest features of the Ericsson Radio System.

Teleport, satellite and network operator Talia has announced Quika, a state of the art service using Ka-band High Throughput Satellites (HTS) to provide customers with connectivity at low cost with the use of antennas as small as 74cm.

Ooredoo Myanmar is significantly expanding its network and infrastructure to offer the fastest and widest 4G network in the country.

MEASAT Satellite Systems has announced an agreement with CETel (Central European Telecom Services GmbH) to provide pan-African C-band VSAT satellite services via the AFRICASAT-1a satellite at 46.0°E.

TerraPay and Wari have signed a strategic partnership agreement that will strengthen the remittances ecosystem in 35 key African markets.

Swazi Mobile, Swaziland’s recently launched second mobile network, has tapped BICS for its complete range of voice and data roaming services.

Allied Technologies Limited (Altron) has partnered with Tango Telecom to launch Data Retail Engine (Tango DRE) in Africa.

Parallel Wireless is adding 2G capabilities to its end-to-end cellular network technology.

Chilean market leader Telefónica Chile has selected Ericsson to virtualise its core network.

Zong 4G has expanded its backbone transmission network from multiples of 10Gbps to 100Gbps to keep up with its fast rising subscriber base.

Africa’s largest neutral data centre Teraco Data Environments is becoming a Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute Connectivity partner, providing clients high performance private network connections to Microsoft Azure and other Microsoft Cloud Services.

Intelsat S.A. and Gilat Satellite Networks have announced the availability of a joint managed services solution that adds 4G broadband infrastructure to their networks.