Ooredoo has announced the launch of its Smart City initiative in the Maldives, with a range of smart solutions to be introduced across the country.
Bharti Airtel has announced it has selected Ericsson as its partner for the launch of 4G services in Delhi, India, with Ericsson to provide equipment and software for the roll-out of the new network.
Leading Kenyan operator Safaricom has announced it has introduced charges to banks for transferring funds from accounts of third-party M-Pesa wallets.
Global internet of things (IoT) provider Jasper and Thai mobile operator TrueMove H have announced an IoT partnership.
MobilArt, a digital B2B and B2C solutions provider based in India, the Middle East and South Africa and specialising in mobile content, has partnered mobile solutions firm SLA Mobile to offer direct operator billing as a payment option to its customers.
Millicom Group-affiliated mobile operator Tigo has selected digital security firm Gemalto to provide a suite of M2M solutions, aimed at improving preventative maintainance using remote monitoring and management of machine identification modules (MIMs) in the field.
Kenyan bank KCB Group and the country’s second largest mobile operator Airtel have signed a strategic partnership enabling Airtel customers to walk into KCB outlets in order to deposit or withdraw money from Airtel Money wallets.
Global cloud business communications provider Solgari has partnered London-based IT solutions provider Pensar to address the growing demand from financial institution and technology companies for cloud services across the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.
Indian telecoms service provider Reliance Communications has partnered Internet of Things (IoT) firm Jasper to enable Indian enterprises to launch, manage and monetise next-generation IoT businesses.
Epsilon has rolled out new fibre infrastructure in Singapore to strengthen its local reach, and support the growth of cloud services in Singapore and across the Asia-Pacific region.
Thai mobile operator dtac and mobile payments company Fortumo have announced the launch of direct carrier billing in Thailand.
Smartfren Telecom has launched a 4G LTE-Advanced network in Indonesia, providing users in 22 major cities with access to the highest-performance mobile broadband services.
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN), the undersea cables subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent, and Ocean Networks will extend the South America Pacific Link (SAPL) submarine cable system.
Mobile operators have a key role to play in fostering financial inclusion in Latin American countries with underdeveloped financial services markets through m-payments offerings, according to a new report by Pyramid Research.
Nokia Networks has secured a deal from Ooredoo Qatar for the deployment of Nokia small cells in hotspots around the country, in a bid to increase Ooredoo's network capacity and coverage country-wide.
Leading South African operator Vodacom has launched Video Play, an app that utilises spare network capacity to download and cache selected video content at a reduced cost.
South Africa's dominant operator Vodacom has successfully launched and tested its Radio Access Network (RAN) Mobile Recovery Solution, claiming to be the first time an African operator has successfully deployed such a solution.
Indonesian telco Indosat has announced a partnership with e-book reading service Bookmate to launch a mass market mobile reading service under the Bookmate-Cipika Books brand.
Annual purchases made via mobiles, tablets, desktops and other connected devices should reach 125 billion globally by 2018, fuelled by an increase in "commuter commerce", according to new data by Juniper Research.
Taxi-hailing app Uber and Bharti Airtel have announced a partnership in India, under which Uber riders will receive free in-vehicle Wi-Fi, and can pay using their Airtel Money mobile wallet.
South Africa's MTN has announced its business arm is to partner with Microsoft for the launch of a pan-African cloud platform, providing customers with a hybrid cloud solution serviced from MTN's data centres.
Airtel, Vodafone, Aditya Birla Nuvo, and Tech Mahindra are among 11 applicants to have been granted "in principle" approval by the Reserve Bank of India to launch payments banks, in a bid to achieve universal access to financial services in the country.
Ecuadorian telecoms provider Telconet is deploying Ruckus Wireless’ Smart Wi-Fi products across the Latin American country, with over 4,000 ZoneFlex indoor and outdoor access points so far rolled out.
Fibre-optic (FTTH/B) connections in Latin America will hit 5.1 million connections by the end of 2015, according to Pyramid Research’s latest Fixed Communications Demand Forecast, with fixed lines reaching 163.8 million.
South African market leading operator Vodacom has claimed to have made the first ever commercial voice over WiFi (voWiFi) call, saying the move to use WiFi technology will mean better calling quality for its customers.
Google is relaunching its Android One project in order to strengthen its position in the Indian smartphone market.
Huawei has won a $300 million contract to extend and modernise the 2G network of Uninor, the Indian subsidiary of Telenor.
China Mobile has selected Alcatel-Lucent’s Rapport communications software to enable consolidation of video, voice and messaging services onto a single platform.
Sri Lanka Telecom has deployed new revenue management, interconnect and mediation solutions from NetCracker.
Indian market leader Bharti Airtel is extending its 4G coverage in India from the current 45 cities to a further 296 urban areas across the next month.
The West Africa Cable System now uses 100G transmission technology following an upgrade by Huawei Marine Networks.
Facebook’s incoming security chief has asserted that internet users in emerging markets should have the same right to security as those in developed markets.
SLA Mobile has partnered with the Arabic App Store, GLWAN, to facilitate Carrier Billing with Middle Eastern Mobile Operators.
Bhutan Telecom has selected a backbone solution from Coriant for its new country-wide DWDM infrastructure network.
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