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Gilat Satcom has established a new Point of Presence (PoP) for its East African broadband network in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. 

In advance of this summer’s FIFA World Cup, Claro Brazil is enabling LTE data roaming for its subscribers with Syniverse.

Malaysian provider and Axiata subsidiary Celcom has selected Nokia’s optimisation services to enhance its network, voice and data quality in Klang Valley and Kuala Lumpur.

Orange has launched the Alcatel OneTouch Pixi 2 smartphone across Africa and the Middle East.

Dutch electronics manufacturer Philips is set to re-enter the Indian device market with a range of smartphones and feature phones.

SES and CETel have signed a new capacity agreement for service on SES’s NSS-7 satellite located at 20 degrees West.

NEC Corporation subsidiary NEC Neva is supplying Rostelecom with an outdoor, integrated, ultra-compact microwave communications system which supports 70-80GHz E-band communications.

Online payment solutions provider mopay has entered the Indian market with an HTML5 in-app billing solution.

Indian operator Reliance Jio Infocomm is aiming to extend broadband services to 900 cities and towns across the country using optical fibre (FTTx).

Lao Telecommunications Company (LaoTel), the incumbent telecommunications service provider in Laos, has deployed the MaxBill billing solution from LogNet Systems.

Zain Kuwait is boosting the capacity of its LTE, 3G and 2G networks via a new agreement with NEC and solutions integrator METCO (Middle East Telecommunications Company).

Comarch has finished implementing Field Intervention Management solutions for Orange Polska, allowing the telecom operator to reduce the costs of network operations and improve the quality of tasks performed by technical staff.

Ooredoo Maldives has deployed a new VAS consolidation project provided by Jinny Software.

Leading Russian operator MTS has completed the first Voice over LTE (VoLTE) call on a telco cloud infrastructure using Nokia’s technology.

SkyVision is launching its fibre and wireless based services SkyFibre in Guinea.

Cable & Wireless Panama (CWP) has launched MovilCash, Panama’s first mobile money service.

Vodacom Tanzania has ordered an energy centre from Flexenclosure to power its main switching centre in the capital Dar es Salaam, as replacement for the energy centre that was damaged in a fire in August.

Tata Communications and Orange International Carriers have announced an agreement to interconnect their respective IPX (IP-Exchange) communities for voice over IPX and Signalling Sigtran, which allows IP networks to inter-work with the public switched telephone network.

Satellite provider Speedcast has announced that it will expand its Tier 1 IP backbone into Vanuatu.

Chilean operator Entel has pledged $2.8 billion worth of investment into 3G and 4G networks across the next three years.

DTAC, Thailand’s second largest mobile operator is to upgrade its 3G network and lay the foundation for a 4G LTE network in partnership with Alcatel-Lucent.

Former Apple CEO John Sculley is backing the launch a new range of smartphones in India. Obi Mobiles plans to invest US$20 million to enter the market during 2014.

Bahrain Telecom (Batelco) has announced it will offer cloud based DDoS protection services to business customers to protect customers' websites from DDoS attacks.

In a Landmark partnership expected to benefit over 500 million mobile customers across three fast developing regions, SingTel Group and Samsung have unveiled a suite of joint initiatives to bring improved mobile data experiences to customers.

Tigo is extending financial inclusion in Tanzania by partnering with 17 major banks. The new service will enable Tigo Pesa customers to send and receive funds to and from any bank account to and from any Tigo Pesa wallet almost anywhere in the country.

Telecom Namibia has launched international MPLS interconnect services for the first time.

Telecom service-layer innovator OpenCloud has been chosen by Vodafone Egypt to provide its Rhino service-layer to enable delivery of new services.