The two-day 2023 Global Talent Development Forum (TDF), themed "Leading an Intelligent Journey to a Bright Future", concluded successfully at Huawei’s Global Training Center in Hangzhou.
As the benefits of the digital economy become apparent in countries around the world, the issue of digital inclusion has never been more paramount – particularly in Africa, which is brimming with digital potential that can be fully realized with the right amount of innovation and cooperation.
Connectivity has become synonymous with productivity thanks to the Internet of Everything.
Indian telco Bharti Airtel has launched a Contact Centre as a Service (CCaaS) solution that offers enterprises a unified omnichannel cloud platform to serve their contact centre needs.
At OTF2023, Huawei released the FAST (Full-stack, AI Large Model, Service Engine, Transformation) reference architecture for carriers' digital operations transformation in the digital intelligence era.
Tecnotree has implemented a Business Support System (BSS) upgrade for MTN South Sudan.
Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a leading provider of pan-African digital infrastructure, has partnered with wingu.africa a provider of carrier-neutral data centre services, to introduce Tanzania’s second Azure Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) stack.
Digital systems integrator BCX has launched an Africa Local Public (ALP) cloud service, with Alibaba Cloud, aimed at delivering innovative technology solutions to businesses across the continent.
Kenyan operator Safaricom has announced an upgrade to its local cloud computing platform and cloud services suite.
TM Forum's annual Digital Transformation World (DTW) is a major event in the communications industry, where innovation comes to life, inspiration is sparked, connections are made, and knowledge is gained. Around 3500+ attendees, 50+ CSP VPs, and above from 100+ countries joined this event.
Last week saw a fascinating development in the cloud services area with news that TelCables Nigeria, a telecommunications provider and a subsidiary of Angola Cables, had launched what it calls its ground-breaking Clouds2Africa node in Nigeria.
PLDT and its mobile unit Smart Communications have tapped Amdocs to accelerate their cloud modernisation on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
US cloud giants Oracle announced Beyon-owned operator Batelco chose the vendor to upgrade its core IT platforms, in a move to enhance new services and respond to changing market dynamics.
Salam has selected Oracle to drive 5G innovation across the Middle East.
Cloudmania is joining the Mauritius channel partner ecosystem.
UPDATE: Emtel Mauritius has announced the launch of its 5G mobile network alongside a new agreement with Tecnotree.
Nokia and Telefónica have announced an alliance to accelerate digital transformation for enterprises in Latin America.
RingCentral, a US-headquartered provider of AI-powered global enterprise cloud communications, video meetings, collaboration and contact centre solutions, has announced that it is the first global cloud provider to offer fully compliant cloud phone services in India.
Kazakhtelecom JSC is working with A10 Networks to improve the reliability of broadband access for businesses and consumers nationwide.
MTN Sudan has chosen Skyvera’s cloud-native digital BSS/OSS portfolio for its digital transformation programme.
Digital solutions provider Elm has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Digital Economy, Posts, and Telecommunications of the Central African Republic.
Thanks to sweeping digital transformation enablement efforts, the Kingdom’s ICT market is now the largest and fastest growing in MENA, with a total market size of SAR154 billion in 2022.
Yet another a business division of pan-African technology group Liquid Intelligent Technologies is in the news. This time it’s Liquid C2, with a cloud contact centre deal.
Moro Hub, a subsidiary of Digital DEWA, the digital arm of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has signed a collaboration with Red Hat, a major provider of enterprise open source solutions.
Zain has acquired the UAE-based cloud and data analytics firm Adfolks via its enterprise unit ZainTech.
China Telecom do Brasil (CTB), the largest subsidiary of China Telecom Americas in Latin America and a leading provider of internet and cloud computing services in Brazil, has announced the launch of eSurfing cloud services in the country.
Claro Colombia has deployed solutions from Casa Systems as it seeks to expand its broadband capacity and build a converged, cloud-native network.
MTN announced it will migrate BSS and OSS applications to Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform, a move to tap into machine learning and AI to deliver operational efficiency across the operator’s footprint, starting with Nigeria and South Africa.
As 5G networks are deployed one of the most important growth opportunities for carrier will be in the enablement of digital transformation for enterprises and the public sector.
MTN conducted a proof of concept (PoC) for what it claimed to be Africa's first 5G standalone core, deployed with the cloud computing platform Microsoft Azure.
The next decade will see continuing challenges in the area of core network evolution with significant changes coming down the line as core networks evolve towards next-generation architectures and platforms, says Richard Liu, President of Huawei’s Cloud Core Network Product Line.
Vivo, the Brazilian branch of service provider Telefónica, is migrating essential data and processes from its data centre in Campinas, São Paulo, to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in order to reduce IT costs and accelerate new service offerings.
As digital transformation becomes ever more essential, cloud-based transformation has become a common choice for global telecom carriers.
At MWC 2023, VMware announced that Vodafone Qatar has selected its solutions to deliver new service offerings via the cloud.
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