In order to accommodate increasing international bandwidth demand, the Middle East-Europe Terrestrial System (MEETS) is implementing a solution from Ciena.
In order to accommodate increasing international bandwidth demand, the Middle East-Europe Terrestrial System (MEETS) is implementing a solution from Ciena.
Astellia has signed a 4G network contract with Orange Slovensko, the largest mobile operator in Slovakia.
Vodafone M-Pesa has launched its first international money transfer corridor between Tanzania and Kenya.
Data centres have for years been known to be excessive consumers of power, consuming up to 3% of all global electricity production, and roughly ten times more per square metre than the average office.
Huawei has launched a Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) solution for the first time in South Africa.
Finnish smartphone firm Jolla has partnered with the Indian e-commerce marketplace Snapdeal.com to form the Sailfish OS Alliance.
Ooredoo’s Indosat and Ericsson have launched a cloud-based Machine-to-Machine platform in Indonesia.
Zoom Wireless has begun offering ultra high-speed internet services for businesses and residents in Uganda.
Airtel Ghana has deployed an SMS-based internet service from Dotgo.
Aruban operator Setar has selected Acision’s Diameter Intelligent Signalling Controller (DiSC) to support real-time rating across its 2G, 3G and 4G-LTE networks.
Globe Telecom has partnered with Google to launch Android One in the Philippines.
Orange is launching a new digital offer, branded as Klif, across its African and Middle Eastern footprint.
Indonesian market leader Telkomsel has selected Ericsson to provide a comprehensive OSS transformation that will help the operator meet new customer demands and efficiently manage rapid network growth.
Asian group Axiata Berhad has launched MIFE, an Application Programme Interface (API) platform for all of its operations across Asia.
Bharti Airtel and Visa have partnered to bring mobile payment services to seven markets in Africa.
Vodafone Fiji has deployed Genband’s Experius Application Server for advanced SIP Trunking, Hosted PBX and Unified Communications (UC) services.
Millicom’s Tigo Pesa mobile money service is becoming the first in Africa to allow transactions with users of other mobile money networks within the same market.
Scandinavian operator Telenor has partnered with Opera to pilot its Opera Max app in several Asian markets.
Turkcell’s subsidiary Astelit, along with the Russian operators MTS and VimpelCom, has acquired spectrum to offer 3G services in Ukraine.
Pakistani operator Warid Telecom is deploying SpiderCloud Wireless’ small cell offering.
Azercosmos, the national satellite operator of Azerbaijan, has partnered with Intelsat S.A to design and launch the Azerspace-2/Intelsat 38 satellite at the 45 degrees East orbital position.
Digicel is offering prepaid electricity to residents and business owners in Papua New Guinea via Redknee’s converged billing solution.
Zain Jordan has become the country’s first operator to launch 4G/LTE services in the Kingdom.
Cloud services firm acens has partnered with BaseKit to deploy the latter’s website building platform in Brazil.
Angolan operator Unitel has successfully demonstrated an end-to-end LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) Carrier Aggregation solution in conjunction with Ericsson.
T-Mobile Poland is increasing network visibility and performance with Accedian’s V-NID Performance Platform.
Facebook and Reliance Communications (Rcom) are teaming up to launch the social network’s internet.org app in India for the first time.
BelCash Technology Solution PLC has partnered with two banks to launch HelloCash mobile money services in Ethiopia.
Astellia is implementing its managed services platform for the Filipino operator Smart.
China Telecom’s cloud branch CTCC will implement Nuage Networks’ SDN technology into its public cloud services for the Chinese market.
A new service will enable customers of Orange and the pan-African banking group Ecobank to transfer money between their respective accounts.
Vietnamese market leader Vinaphone is launching a new cloud-based voice messaging solution with CT-IN and Nuance Communications.
South African operator Vodacom is upgrading its billing system to Redknee’s Unified platform.
Bharti Airtel has commissioned Nokia Networks to expand its 4G presence to a further 6 of India’s 22 telecom circles.