Telkom Kenya is switching out its Orange Money service for a new platform in order to better compete with Kenya’s mobile money market leader, m-Pesa.
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Singaporean ride-sharing platform Grab is acquiring Indonesian online payments provider Kudo.
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The partnership between Ericsson and Cisco has secured its first agreement in Brazil, with the two companies working together to supply and install IP routers for Nextel.
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Vietnamese market leader Viettel is hastening the deployment of its 4G infrastructure so that it can deliver nationwide coverage when its 4G service launches next month.
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Nokia has been selected by Altàn Redes to design, build and operate a new nationwide LTE and 5G-ready wholesale network in Mexico.
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Avanti Communications has partnered with Millicom to bring broadband connectivity to consumer, enterprise and government applications.
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Digicel is using equipment from ZTE to expand its 4G LTE networks across its 26 markets in the Caribbean and Central America.
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Russian CSP TransTeleCom has shifted all its international backbone traffic to a Long Haul DWDM network.
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The Philippines’ Smart – the wireless unit of PLDT - is speeding up the deployment of its 4G network upgrade with the goal of providing coverage in 785 municipalities by the end of this year.
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India has become the twelfth market to receive Samsung’s mobile payments service.
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China saw a surge in mobile payments across 2016, with transactions up by 86% over the year to 25.7 billion.
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MTN Group has chosen PeerApp's local content delivery solution for its operations in various geographic regions.
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Pan-African communications service provider Internet Solutions Kenya has tapped Telco Systems to upgrade its entire fibre network infrastructure to 10GB.
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Reliance Jio has deployed Ciena’s multi-terabit converged packet-optical technology to power its pan-India 4G network core and help unleash digital revolution in India.
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Afghan CDMA operator Wasel Telecom has partnered with SpeedCast International to connect residents in remote villages in Afghanistan.
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Kenya is launching its mobile money-exclusive government bond this week.
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TIM Brazil has signed a new contract with Nokia to build out a robust network infrastructure, helping the operator cope with increasing consumption of 4G mobile data.
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The Reserve Bank of India is reportedly drafting guidelines that will allow for direct money transfers between the apps of different mobile wallet providers, removing the need for a traditional bank.
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Indian newcomer Reliance Jio is collaborating with Google to develop a low-cost 4G smartphone that can only be used on its network.
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The government of the Philippines has approved a project to create a national broadband network.
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Nokia and Ooredoo Qatar have deployed Nokia 4.5G Pro technology to increase mobile data speeds to up to 800 Mbps for Ooredoo's customers in some of the busiest areas of Qatar's capital city.
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Airtel Lanka is deploying Gemalto's Device Management platform in Sri Lanka, enabling its subscribers to have instant access to 4G data services such as email and internet.
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Carrier-neutral data centre and connectivity platform datamena has partnered with Epsilon to deploy the latter’s Infiny on-demand connectivity platform.
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Ooredoo has chosen Telia Carrier to provide IoT backhaul connectivity to Ericsson’s DCP platforms in Europe.
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Omantel is partnering with Console Connect, marking the global direct connect solutions provider’s first Middle Eastern network partnership.
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Nokia and Saudi Telecom Company (STC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on the development of 5G and IoT use cases.
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Slovenian operator Telekom Slovenije is partnering with Fortumo to launch direct carrier billing on the Google Play app store.
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iBasis has collaborated with Turkcell to open an IPX Point of Presence (PoP) in Istanbul.
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VimpelCom has tapped Nokia to supply managed services for its fixed, mobile and transport network operations for the next five years.
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Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) has signed a cooperation agreement for a smart city consultancy project with Ericsson.
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Elitecore, the telecom software division of Sterlite Technologies, has announced next generation Wi-Fi solutions including Enterprise Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi Global Roaming, Wi-Fi calling and Middleware for Carriers and Enterprises.
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IoT firm Ingenu and Datorá Telecomunicações are launching an IoT network powered by Ingenu’s RPMA (Random Phase Multiple Access) technology in Brazil.
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The Samoa Submarine Cable Company (SSCC) has commissioned two eCentre data centre solutions from Flexenclosure.
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Turkcell is implementing Teoco’s Helix 9.0 unified service assurance suite to reduce costs and increase the efficiency of its multi-vendor network.

