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NEC Corporation has announced the completion of the Sistem Kabel Rakyat 1Malaysia (SKR1M) 100 gigabit per second (Gbps) submarine cable linking Peninsular Malaysia with Sabah and Sarawak.

UHP Networks has announced RUN, a FaaS broadband data solution optimised to take advantage of the maximum efficiency provided by Intelsat EpicNG’s high-throughput fleet.

Telenor Pakistan’s CEO Irfan Wahab Khan has called for the country’s government to offer subsidised smartphones to expand high-speed connectivity among Pakistani consumers.

Kerlink is expanding into India by setting up a subsidiary to coordinate the company’s partnership with Tata Communications to deploy the world’s largest LoRaWAN network.

Syniverse has signed a multiyear agreement to provide LTE roaming and real-time monitoring services to Lebanon-based operator Alfa, managed by Orascom TMT.

Indian operator Aircel has partnered with digital security specialist Avast to provide its 85 million subscribers with greater online protection.

Energy Vision has ordered over a hundred units of Flexenclosure’s eSite x10 for a large rollout of cell site power systems in Burkina Faso, to be utilised by a major pan-African mobile operator.

Globe Telecom has chosen Gilat for a five year multi-million dollar managed service contract to enable accelerated deployment for the mobile operator’s rapid network expansion throughout the Philippines.

Identity scoring firm Juvo has partnered with Malaysia’s fastest growing MVNO, Tune Talk.

Pakistani satellite network service provider Supernet has partnered with LeoSat Enterprises, which is launching a constellation of up to 108 low-earth orbit communications satellites.

A new shared infrastructure project aimed at promoting rural mobile voice and data coverage in Gabon has been granted Universal Service Fund capital.

South Africa’s FibreCo Telecommunications has selected ADVA Optical Networking to enable its roll out of high-bandwidth services across South Africa.

Gilat Telecom is expanding its satellite capacity with SES Networks to over 3.0Gbps in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Indian state-owned operator BSNL has formed a partnership with Coriant to chart a path towards 5G and IoT deployments in India.

IoT specialist Kerlink has partnered with YEAP! to deploy Argentina’s first LoRaWAN network.

Globe Telecom's mobile commerce subsidiary G-Xchange has partnered with EMQ to expand the latter’s reach in the Philippines through GCash, offering overseas workers greater flexibility and convenience.

Ooredoo Myanmar is partnering Pact, a leading international NGO, to provide the country’s first telemedicine service.

Saudi Arabia’s Mobily has recruited three of the world’s biggest network equipment vendors to implement upgrades to its network over the next three years.

Orange Polska, the leading Polish telecommunication provider, has chosen Comarch as its OSS software vendor to support Orange’s OSS4TTH project.

Bluesky Cook Islands has increased the amount of satellite capacity it is using from SES Networks in order to launch 4G+ service to Rarotonga and Aitutaki, the two key cities of the island nation.

MyTel, the fourth licensed operator in Myanmar, is aiming to extend its 4G-only network to 90% of the country’s population when it launches in Q1 2018.

Axiata’s tower business Edotco is partnering with investment firm Dawood Hercules to obtain Pakistan Mobile Communications’ tower assets for $940 million.

Viva Bolivia has launched Viva Ilimitado, a time-based mobile data solution powered by Comptel’s FWD solution.

Zain Iraq is upgrading its existing network using Ericsson’s virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) offering to meet the growing data demands of its customers in the region.

Cameroonian operator iPLANS has partnered with World Telecom Labs (WTL) on its new VoIP network.

Ericsson has been selected by VIVA Dominicana to deploy its Revenue Management products, as part of a five-year, full end-to-end network modernisation project.

Cloud networking provider GTT Communications has expanded its platform of low latency services to Brazil’s financial markets.

Open Mobile is deploying a virtualised IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Core from Interop Technologies to provide a range of network services in Puerto Rico.