Chilean operator Entel has pledged $2.8 billion worth of investment into 3G and 4G networks across the next three years.
Tigo Tanzania has announced a partnership with Facebook which includes free trial access to Facebook services in English plus a new Kiswahili version through their mobile handsets.
NAPAfrica, Africa’s fastest growing neutral internet exchange point (IXP), is the first African exchange to offer remote peering. The service has already been snapped up by SEACOM and Liquid Telecoms among others.
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.
Caribbean operator LIME has announced plans to launch 4G LTE mobile data services in the island territory of Antigua & Barbuda.
Telecom service-layer innovator OpenCloud has been chosen by Vodafone Egypt to provide its Rhino service-layer to enable delivery of new services.
YooMee Africa Group is launching Côte d’Ivoire’s first LTE services. The group has expanded its operations into the West African country after establishing itself as a broadband provider in Cameroon.
Cameroon’s national telecom provider Camtel has renewed its convergent billing agreement with FTS.
Aircel India has deployed the NetVertex PCRF from Elitecore Technologies its flexible & carrier grade architecture to enable greater revenue creation and enhance scalability.
Intelligent transport networks provider Infinera has partnered with pan-African provider Internet Solutions to deploy the former’s DTN-X platform across the company’s South African long distance network.
The changing dynamic between operator services and OTT providers is a fascinating one. It is constantly evolving as the industry presses forward, and while the popularity of OTT – and the threat that this poses to operators – is undeniable, the answers are not quite so obvious.
Indian mobile operator Videocon Telecom is aiming to launch 4G/LTE services in three major cities before the end of the 2014-15 fiscal year.
Intelsat and Vodacom are partnering to bring a managed broadband service to sub-Saharan Africa aimed at the small office/home office (SOHO) and small/medium enterprise (SME) users.
Filipino operators Digitel and Smart – both part of market leader PLDT – have signed a direct agreement with electronic payment service iSend to allow their customers to receive top-ups from iSend subscribers worldwide.
Thuraya and Bharti Airtel have announced an agreement to provide Airtel Africa customers with mobile satellite products and services across 17 countries in Africa.
To meet the needs of a data-hungry new generation of users in densely populated areas, dtac TriNet, a subsidiary of Thailand's second-largest mobile operator dtac, has assigned Ericsson to deploy a 4G/LTE network.
Brazilians will soon be able to use their smartphones to carry out contactless payment transactions when shopping following an initiative by Claro, Giesecke & Devrient, and Brazilian bank Bradesco.
India’s largest energy exploration company has commissioned a new high capacity wireless network to be built by Ceragon Networks.
One of the most prolific mobile money services in emerging markets, Vodafone’s M-Pesa, has marked its European debut with a launch in Romania.
Infrastructure provider Internexa is using a 100Gbps transponder delivered by NEC to provide optical transmission throughout Colombia.
FiberHome Technologies Group has selected Lantiq’s LTE gateway to provide high performance, cost effective fixed LTE broadband services to the China market.
Indian operator Uninor, a subsidiary of Telenor, is extending its coverage to the state of Andhra Pradesh.
A new agreement between Sub10 Systems and Mexico-based Sitec will see the former’s millimetre wave wireless Liberator products made available across the country.
Nawras, one of the largest wireless operators in Oman, has signed a capacity agreement on SES’s NSS-6 satellite.
VSAT systems operator and integrator Nynex satellite OHG has grown its multi-million dollar contract with Avanti Communications to extend satellite broadband coverage across Libya.
South African Internet service provider MWEB has selected Ruckus Wireless to supply Smart Wi-Fi products and technology to support a new nationwide wireless broadband public access service, as well as managed enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) services to businesses that exploit its vast fibre broadband service available throughout South Africa.
Indian service provider Tata Communications has entered into a partnership with data protection firm SafeNet to provide cloud-based multi-factor authentication globally as a managed service.
Smile Communications has announced the launch of a 4G/LTE network on 800 MHz spectrum in Ibadan and Lagos, both in Nigeria.
Nokia underscored its commitment to emerging markets by releasing three new devices using the Android operating platform at the recent Mobile World Congress.
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