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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.

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.

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.

Ruckus Wireless and Orange Poland have deployed Hotspot 2.0 Wi-Fi services in Warsaw.

Mobile billing and messaging solution provider txtNation now provides mPayments across all 3 Turkish operators - Turkcell, Avea and Vodafone.

Assurance and analytics solutions provider Teoco has been selected by Russia’s leading telecommunication service provider, Rostelecom, to deliver its proven Netrac network fault and performance management solution.

Fibre to the premises (FTTx) ultra-broadband access will soon be a reality for millions of subscribers in Indonesia following the announcement of plans for a national broadband infrastructure by Telkom Indonesia subsidiary Telkom Akses.

The Moscow Metro has deployed a new wireless broadband solution to deliver 90 Mbps per train across distances of up to 900 metres.

A new five-year agreement between Vodafone and Huawei will expand the operator group’s Single Radio Access Network (SingleRAN) for its “Project Spring” Phase 1 programme across the world.

A new collaboration agreement between Tata Communications and Turkcell Superonline will establish a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) node in Istanbul.

MTN has launched Mahindra Comviva’s Mobile Data Platform (MDP) in Congo Brazzaville.

Following on from its major rivals, China Unicom will become the last operator in the country to launch 4G services later this month.