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Etisalat Egypt has deployed JDSU’s ariesoGEO solution to enhance service quality and optimisation for postpaid customers.

Alcatel-Lucent has partnered with the Internet Society to provide equipment for the Bangkok Internet Exchange Point.

Mobile satellite services operator Thuraya has partnered with SOS Children’s Villages International’s Gulf Area Office to bring satellite connectivity to remote communities in the Central African Republic (CAR).

Slovakian operator SWAN has selected Cerillion to deliver a complete business support system (BSS) solution for its 4G launch.

Elara Communications is launching an international calling app for customers in rural and remote villages in south-eastern Mexico, in partnership with IDT Global.

Sierratel has launched new advanced landline services in Sierra Leone. The launch was overseen by consultancy and management firm MDIC.

Chinese manufacturer Lenovo is setting up a new company in China focused on low-cost smart devices.

Kenya’s Equity Bank will be issuing an ultra-thin mobile banking smart SIM featuring technology from SIM manufacturer Taisys.

Facebook and Ericsson claim to have developed a methodology that will improve app performance by as much as 70%.

The consortium behind the Asia-Africa-Europe 1 (AAE-1) submarine cable system project has signed a supply contract with NEC for the S1H segment, which connects Thailand, Vietnam and Hong Kong.

Alcatel-Lucent is launching a 100 gigabit-per-second fibre-optic network with MTN Nigeria.

Vodacom has launched Long Term Evolution (LTE) in Lesotho, addressing the relative scarcity of fixed line connections in the country.

Orange Botswana has entered into a multi-year managed services agreement with Ericsson.

The Asia America Gateway consortium is upgrading its trans-Pacific cable network using solutions from Ciena to address the growing demand for broadband access.

Pan-African telecoms operator Gondwana International Networks (GIN) has announced that its AfricaOnline business has launched a managed infrastructure and services solution in Ghana.

Televõrgu AS has deployed the ADVA Optical Networking’s 100G Core to connect Northern and Eastern European countries to Central Europe over a route running through the Baltic States and Poland.

Virgin Mobile Middle East & Africa (VMMEA) is now operating an MVNO service in Saudi Arabia.

Indonesian number two XL Axiata is selling off a portion of its telecoms towers to dedicated tower firm Solusi Tunas.

Mobile messaging software solutions provider Anam Technologies has been selected to provide its Anti-Spam solution to Russian mobile operator Tele2. 

Reliance Jio Infocomm has signed a tower-sharing agreement with Indus Towers that will see the operator using all of the latter firm’s pan-Indian infrastructure at “prevailing market rates”.

Telefónica has selected Comarch to provide Configuration Management, Network Planning & Design across its Latin American operations.

Jolla has launched its first smartphone in India via an exclusivity agreement with Snapdeal.com, India’s largest e-commerce marketplace.

Telkom Indonesia, the parent company of Indonesian mobile market leader Telkomsel, is planning to acquire a stake in a listed tower company in order to realise its ambition of becoming the country’s leading tower operator.

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) is close to approving Apple’s iPhone 6 for sale in the country.

Myanmar-based systems integrator Terabit Wave has ordered Gilat Satellite Networks’ Satcom-On-The-Move terminals for a Myanmar governmental agency. 

Moroccan operator INWI is implementing convergent policy control across its operations using a Policy Manager solution from Openet.

Reliance Jio Infocomm is aiming to roll out its full 4G offering by March 2015, and has signed a tower-sharing deal with GTL Infrastructure to speed up the deployment while keeping costs down.

Indian state-owned operator BSNL is distributing 5000 free SIM cards to areas of the Kashmir valley affected by flooding.