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Ericsson said on Monday it has extended its strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Thailand’s Digital Economy Promotion Agency (DEPA) to develop 5G solutions for the country’s industrial sector.

ZTE said on Monday it has formed a strategic partnership with Sacofa – a telecoms infrastructure provider in East Malaysia owned by the Sarawak government – to modernise its fibre infrastructure network.

The London Internet Exchange (LINX) announced on Monday it has signed a co-operative agreement with internet exchange incubator Asteroid to take over its interconnection operations in Kenya.

Odata, a Brazilian provider of data centre services for Latin America, has announced a US$1.02 billion green financing deal focused on sustainable data centre infrastructure investments.

Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) reportedly plans to allocate 100 MHz of free spectrum in the 4800-MHz band to encourage factories to develop private 5G networks.

EXA Infrastructure has announced plans to deploy a new fibre backbone connecting Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary to its network in Germany and Austria, which it claims will be the largest pan-European backbone fibre deployment in Central Europe in the last 25 years.

Digital payments giant Visa has announced the launch of Visa Pay, a mobile solution that provides access to digital payments and account-to-account money movement, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Apogeo Space, an Italian SME that says it is developing the first private national constellation of picosatellites for IoT telecommunications, has announced a strategic agreement with Telespazio Brasil to expand its picosatellite IoT services into the Latin American market.

Nigeria’s National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Kaspersky Global, a leading name in cybersecurity, to strengthen Nigeria’s cybersecurity ecosystem. The agreement was formalised last week during IT exhibition and conference GITEX Nigeria 2025 in Lagos.

Data centre colocation services provider Telehouse Thailand announced on Thursday it has partnered with state-owned telco National Telecom (NT) to link its facility in Bangkok to NT’s international subsea cable network.

Orange has appointed Thierry Millet (pictured) as CEO of Orange Money Group, replacing Aminata Kane.

The Tanzania Telecommunications Corporation (TTCL), which operates and maintains all types of telecommunications networks, including ICT systems and services, within and outside the United Republic of Tanzania, has announced plans to construct more than 1,400 communication towers across the country to strengthen national network coverage and support the digital economy.

In what it calls a decisive turning point in its mission to bring finance and essential services closer to citizens, everywhere, for everyone, KaliSpot, which describes itself as a Senegalese fintech born in the United States, has announced the deployment of its first 1Net smart kiosks in the Senegalese capital, Dakar.

Pan-Asian data centre operator Digital Edge and Thai energy company B.Grimm Power announced on Thursday that they have broken ground on their first joint data centre in Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).

South African telco Vodacom announced on Wednesday that its virtual wheeling solution is now live, enabling it to purchase renewable energy for its countrywide operations more efficiently and on a broader scale.

Bharti Airtel-controlled telecoms tower firm Indus Towers revealed on Tuesday it is making plans to expand operations outside of India into select international emerging markets – particularly countries in Africa where Airtel currently operates.

Nokia has announced that it has been selected by Indian next-generation connectivity solutions provider Vortex Group to modernise its IP edge and transport network across the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat in the west of India, and Goa in the southwest.

Cloud-native network infrastructure provider Mavenir has announced the successful completion and go-live of its converged charging system (CCS) transformation for SETAR, the primary full-service telecoms provider on the Caribbean island country of Aruba.

Qatar-headquartered telecommunications and ICT provider Ooredoo and airline Qatar Airways have announced a strategic partnership to enhance artificial intelligence (AI), cloud and cybersecurity capabilities in Qatar.

Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research arm of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), and VentureOne, ATRC's venture builder, in collaboration with technology group e&, say they have launched QuantumConnect, a next-generation hardware-based encryption solution, in the UAE.

The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has confirmed that talks are still ongoing with satellite company Monacosat over launching a satellite to boost the country’s connectivity.

Jio Platforms parent company Reliance Industries (RIL) has announced a joint venture with Meta to build agentic AI enterprise platforms and tools for businesses in India and select international markets.

Nokia announced on Tuesday that that it has signed a contract agreement with Malaysian ISP Extreme Broadband (EBB) and its wholly owned subsidiary Open DC to upgrade Open DC’s AI data centres to improve security and network performance.

PLDT announced on Tuesday it has deployed free-space optics technology from Google Taara in three remote locations in the Philippines as an alternative to terrestrial and subsea fibre optic cables.

5G finally arrived in Bangladesh on Monday after telcos Robi Axiata and Grameenphone reportedly launched 5G services within a few hours of each other, and 18 months after receiving licences to streamline 5G rollouts.

Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), the Costa Rican government-run electricity and telecommunications services provider, has announced that it will boost its current international capacity 23-fold through the integration of the Trans Americas Fiber Systems submarine cable TAM-1.

The past two years have seen an explosion in Generative AI. The ubiquitous technology has had a huge impact on customer service, but it also has a major shortcoming – it is predominantly reactive. While GenAI can respond to prompts, it is unable to take an independent action – to ‘take initiative’ by anticipating a customer’s needs, making a decision, and then interacting meaningfully with its systems to pursue a desired outcome.

Telkom Indonesia revealed over the weekend that it has launched an AI Centre of Excellence (CoE) supported by its digital services arm Telkom Solution that it describes as a “national AI ecosystem enabler.”

Djibouti Telecom has announced plans to extend the regional subsea cable, Djibouti Africa Regional Express 1 (DARE1), southward along Africa’s east coast to broaden reach and enhance route diversity.

Telkom Indonesia’s international arm Telin said it has signed an MoU with Malaysian engineering company ITCO Niaga to collaborate on planning and development of the Indonesia Cable Express II (ICE II) subsea cable system that now includes landing stations in eastern Malaysia.

Smart Communications, the wireless subsidiary of PLDT, announced on Friday it has launched 5G Standalone in Iloilo City in the region of Western Visayas, which it says marks the beginning of a broader nationwide rollout of 5G SA across the Philippines.

Techno Digital, the digital infrastructure arm of India’s Techno Electric & Engineering Company Limited (TEECL), has announced the inauguration of its 36MW data centre at SIPCOT IT Park in Chennai.