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Vietnamese telco MobiFone has launched a new digital MVNO brand, Saymee, which is aimed at Gen Z subscribers and powered by a cloud-native SaaS platform from software and services provider Amdocs.

Qatar and the UAE have new sovereign cloud services following separate launches this week from Ooredoo and du that promise a local alternative to international cloud service providers.

TurkNet and SOCAR Fiber announced on Thursday they have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to integrate their fibre optic networks along the TANAP natural gas pipeline to expand TurkNet's fibre business and fortify Turkey’s internet backbone.

It’s not unusual to hear of operators using renewable energy, but in Kenya Sistema.bio, a biogas and regenerative agriculture platform, and operator Safaricom appear to be donating it to farmers.

Pan-African financial services group Ecobank and cloud computing services company Google Cloud have announced what they call a groundbreaking collaboration aimed at transforming financial services with advanced analytics and AI and driving digital empowerment across Africa.

Telecom Egypt and subsea supplier SubCom announced on Wednesday they have successfully completed two landings for the Southeast Asia-Middle East-Western Europe 6 (SEA-ME-WE-6) subsea cable system on each of Egypt’s two coasts.

Ericsson said on Wednesday it has struck an agreement with Latvian telco Latvijas Mobilais Telefons (LMT) to modernize its subscriber domain infrastructure to support its planned deployment of standalone 5G.

Malaysian telco YTL Communications launched a fully operational multi-operator core network (MOCN) 4G base station site in Penang on Tuesday as part of Malaysian government initiatives to share infrastructure and provide 100% mobile coverage of roads.

Indian IT services firm Echelon Edge has announced that it has been entrusted with managing OSS/BSS infrastructure for the first two phases of state-owned operator BSNL’s call detail record (CDR) project across North and East India.

Telkom Indonesia announced on Monday it has signed established a strategic cooperation deal with Conversant Solutions to provide Content Delivery Network (CDN) as-a-service solutions in Indonesia.

MTN Nigeria officially launched the first phase of its US$235 million data centre in Lagos on Tuesday, along with a cloud service to compete against the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google.

Africa-headquartered technology company Cassava Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the South African AI Association (SAAIA), an industry body focused on growing responsible AI adoption, to deliver artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaas) across the African continent.

Arkan Solutions, a provider of cloud communication services and session border controller as a service (SBCaaS) across the Middle East and globally, has announced the successful go-live of its PSTN integration service for international express shipping service DHL Express in Kuwait, Qatar and Jordan, in collaboration with British Telecom (BT).

After new power tariffs were put in place on Tuesday, operators of data centres in Malaysia have apparently expressed concerns that they are much higher than were expected.

African mobile money platform Wave Mobile Money says it has raised EUR 117 million (about US$138.2 million) in debt financing to advance what it describes as its mission of making affordable, user-centric financial services accessible to everyone.

The governments of Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) have held talks on the potential construction of three new subsea cables, aiming to meet the Pacific Island nation’s growing demand for digital connectivity.

Contact Financial Holding, an Egyptian non-banking financial services provider, has announced a strategic partnership with noon Payments, an integrated online payment gateway powered by digital e-commerce platform noon.

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AIS Business said on Thursday that it has launched what it says is Thailand’s first locally-based hyperscale cloud service using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to support AI workloads for public and private organizations.

Telecoms tower company IHS South Africa announced on Thursday it has kicked off an initiative with non-profit organization Project Isizwe in KwaMashu, Durban to provide free, uncapped public Wi-Fi for local residents, students, job seekers and entrepreneurs.

iXAfrica Data Centres, which owns and operates East Africa’s first hyperscale, AI-ready data centre, in Kenya, and EdgeNext, a global leader in cloud infrastructure and edge computing services, say they have partnered to drive the next wave of digital infrastructure growth across the region.

As AI in particular drives more technology development, including data centre rollout in emerging markets, a new report is suggesting that some of the world’s best-known tech giants are emitting more while presenting climate targets that may be, at the very least, optimistic.

I&M Group PLC, a leading regional financial services group in Africa, has announced a partnership with ThetaRay, a company that harnesses the power of cognitive AI for financial crime compliance, enabling financial institutions to precisely identify legitimate customers while flagging bad actors.

The London Internet Exchange (LINX) announced on Wednesday it is expanding its partnership with Digital Realty into west Africa via a deal to establish its planned internet exchange point (IXP) for Ghana in Digital Realty’s upcoming data centre in Accra.

Nokia announced on Thursday that it has signed a deal with Philippine fibre broadband provider Converge ICT Solutions to deploy its data center fabric solution to future-proof Converge’s new data centres with AI and automation technology.

Huawei Cloud has unveiled the latest update of its Chinese-language large language models (LLMs) – Pangu Models 5.5 – with major upgrades across five capabilities that it says will enable transformative applications in industry sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing and scientific research.

Could the US and West Africa soon enjoy a dedicated subsea link? It’s early days yet, but this week US lawmakers have passed legislation to at least examine the feasibility of building a subsea cable linking the US to Africa.

Kacific Broadband Satellites Group announced on Tuesday it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) and Telco Integrators (TI) to expand satellite internet, broadband, and voice services across Pakistan.

Digicel Tonga announced on Wednesday it has completed the first phase of its 5G rollout, with its network now covering about 30% of the population in Nuku’alofa.

Robi Axiata’s digital services subsidiary Axentec announced on Tuesday it has launched what it says is the first Tier-IV cloud platform fully hosted and operated in Bangladesh that promises data sovereignty for local enterprises.

West African Tier III carrier and cloud-neutral data centre Rack Centre says it has signed a strategic collocation agreement with network operator TelCables Nigeria, a subsidiary of Angola Cables.