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Ooredoo has selected Ranplan’s RF indoor planning tool iBuildNet for the design and optimisation of complex in-building DAS and Small Cell HetNets for its global footprint.

Vinaphone is launching carrier billing on Google Play in Vietnam with solutions from Fortumo.

Bangladeshi operator Grameenphone has awarded a five-year IT infrastructure and applications managed services contract to Wipro.

Facebook has quietly begun offering a new photo-sharing app in China via a local company with which it has no affiliations.

Orange Poland has implemented virtualised versions of Openet’s Policy Manager and Evolved Charging solutions.

Several Chinese firms are being investigated by the country’s internet authorities after claims that their social media services were being used to disseminate illegal content.

TerraPay has obtained an approval from Bank of Uganda to facilitate International money transfers to mobile wallets in the country.

Helios Towers Tanzania (HTT) has reached an agreement with Zanzibar Telecom (Zantel) for the acquisition of all unique sites in their mainland tower portfolio.

Djibouti Telecom has signed a contract with France-IX to peer its IP traffic through France-IX’s IXPs in Paris and Marseille.

Latin American telecoms provider Grupo Gtd has selected Netcracker solutions to enable its large-scale IT consolidation, transformation and network virtualisation program.

Indian mobile payments firm Paytm may launch chat services in an effort to shore up its position against WhatsApp and Hike – both of which are looking into offering mobile payments.

iSAT Africa is providing a key East African customer fully managed satellite telecommunications services including satellite backup of its fibre network via a new agreement with Thaicom.

Customers of Indian newcomer Reliance Jio are experiencing slower connections due to the 4G operator’s network being “overloaded”, according to wireless mapping firm OpenSignal.

Zong 4G has collaborated with LePhone to launch affordable 4G handsets in Pakistan.

Visa CEO Alfred Kelly has affirmed the company’s goal to claim a “fair share” of India’s incipient cashless payment market by offering low cost, low hassle solutions to merchants.

Telebras has awarded Gilat Satellite Networks an $11.4M contract to provide a satellite-based broadband network to the Brazilian Geostationary Satellite of Defense and Strategic Communications, SGDC.

Managed municipal services provider Viginet-IP S.A. has selected solutions from 5G specialist Mimosa Networks for its new network in Argentina.

OPT and Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) - part of Nokia - have signed a turn-key agreement for the deployment of the NATITUA cable system, which will further enhance the connectivity in French Polynesia.

Cable & Wireless Seychelles has tapped Syniverse to improve roaming experiences for inbound and outbound roaming customers.

Indonesia has blocked access to the encrypted messaging service Telegram over claims that users were spreading “radical and terrorist propaganda”.

Caribbean service provider Logic has selected solutions from Calix to enhance existing GigaCentre deployments and improve its subscriber experience in the Cayman Islands.

Belizean operator Smart has implemented FTS’ real-time billing and charging solution to support its expansion into 4G/LTE.

According to latest research conducted by Dataxis, fixed broadband connections for Latin America in the first quarter of 2017 reached 68.11 million.

Mobile payments company Bango has enabled mobile operator Viva Kuwait to upgrade its Google Play carrier billing from a direct integration to the Bango Platform.

Ooredoo Maldives is leveraging Syniverse’s global, reliable and secure platform to protect against mobile roaming fraud and more accurately collect revenue for services across its operations.

WorldRemit and Huawei have announced a partnership to make WorldRemit’s international money transfer service available to all partners of Huawei’s mobile money service platform across Africa.

Telefonica’s global infrastructure group Telxius is now offering its customers on-demand software-defined terabit capacity subsea service activation on its SAM-1 subsea network between the U.S., Brazil and Puerto Rico.