Wireless Networks

The Belarusian government has announced plans to roll out a single 5G network, following a similar approach taken by the Malaysian government.

Pan-African service provider Airtel and tower company IHS, Africa’s largest telecommunications infrastructure provider, have unveiled a plan to expand network reach in Zambia.

India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has reportedly awarded 5G spectrum worth INR610 billion to state-owned telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) to ready the telco for its planned launch of 5G services sometime this year.

Following hard on the heels of a Nokia-Vodafone Idea agreement announced earlier this week, tech giant Nokia and Indian operator Bharti Airtel say they are expanding their partnership with the deployment of Nokia’s Packet Core appliance-based and fixed wireless access (FWA) solutions.

More good news for Vodafone Idea has followed hard on the heels of the recent announcement that the Indian government has expanded its ownership stake in the operator. This time it involves a network upgrade supported by tech giant Nokia.

ACES, a leading Saudi Arabian neutral host operator which provides in-building solutions, Wi-Fi-DAS, fibre optics, data centres and managed services, has announced a collaboration in a strategic open RAN partnership with RANsemi, a British wireless semiconductor innovator specialising in 5G open RAN baseband technologies.

As the telecoms industry hurtles towards the digital world, demand is already growing for emerging bandwidth-intensive applications and services such as artificial intelligence (AI).

Global digital operator Veon announced on Friday it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Airspan Networks to collaborate on Open RAN and air-to-land network solutions for Veon’s Ukrainian operator Kyivstar.

India’s 5G subscriber base has reportedly grown to around 250 million since commercial 5G services were launched almost two and a half years ago, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Communications.

The released scenario-based WLAN performance certification standards by the World WLAN Application Association (WAA), marks a key step in ensuring a high-quality WLAN user experience across a broad range of applications including industrial and medical scenarios, as well as in the home.

As well as providing a showcase for new products and services, Mobile World Congress is an occasion for industry bodies to gather and review ongoing work designed to set new benchmarks and establish the future direction of key enabling technologies.

Vodafone Idea (Vi) has launched 5G services in Mumbai.

MyRepublic Indonesia is a provider of fiber optic internet and subscription TV services that offers solutions for the internet and entertainment needs of Indonesians. The company has been working with ZTE to boost high-speed internet access in Indonesia. We spoke to Mei Zhonghua, President of Asia-Pacific and CIS, ZTE Corporation, and Timotius Sulaiman, CEO of MyRepublic, to learn more.

During MWC Barcelona 2025, the World Broadband Association (WBBA) hosted an industry summit themed "Smarter Broadband: Investment. Innovation. Intelligence."

Netmore Group, a global operator of IoT networks, has announced its continued expansion into Brazil and South American markets, following the completion of its acquisition of Everynet, an operator of neutral-host, low power wide area (LPWA) networks.

Rather than being just a “hot topic” for the next few years, AI will impact every aspect of every user’s life and be adopted by mobile operators as a productivity tool to create value, reduce costs and boost network ROI, according to Chief Marketing Officer of Huawei Wireless Networks, Zhao Dong.

UAE-based telco du announced at Mobile World Congress 2025 on Thursday it is collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Nokia to implement 5G cloud RAN technology in its network. 

CelcomDigi said on Thursday it has signed several MoUs at Mobile World Congress 2025 – two with Huawei and ZTE related to AI-powered network evolution, and and one with Ericsson to develop private 5G solutions for Malaysia’s oil and gas sector.

Viettel High Tech, a Vietnamese end-to-end 4G/5G solution provider and part of the state-owned multinational telecommunications, technology and manufacturing conglomerate Viettel Group, has officially announced the launch of its 5G equipment trial with the UAE's Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company PJSC (du), a leading telecom operator in the Middle East, at MWC25.

Orex SAI – the Open RAN joint venture between NTT DoCoMo and NEC – announced on Wednesday it has signed an MoU with Indonesian network service provider Solusi Sinergi Digital (Surge) and Nokia to connect underserved communities in Indonesia with Open RAN 5G fixed wireless access (FWA).

Chinese wireless technology company Tongyu Communication has launched what it calls its groundbreaking MacroWiFi product at MWC25.

Quectel Wireless Solutions, an IoT solutions provider, has announced the launch of its 5G transparent antenna, the YFCX001WWAH, at MWC25. This solution is designed to improve connectivity while maintaining seamless device design.

Tech giant ZTE has announced at MWC25 that it has successfully completed the world’s first extended C+L band integrated 80×800 Gbps wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) trial in collaboration with China Telecom. This trial achieved flexible adjustment of wavelengths within a 12THz ultra-wide spectrum.

Mavenir, the cloud-native network infrastructure provider, and e& UAE, telecom arm of global technology group e&, have announced a collaboration to advance e& UAE’s future of cloud-native converged packet core networks across 4G and 5G (NSA and SA) at MWC25.

High altitude platform stations (HAPS) are back in the news at MWC25 with an announcement from AALTO, an Airbus subsidiary which designs, manufactures and operates the Zephyr HAPS. AALTO says it has completed successful connectivity testing in Kenya on behalf of its customer Space Compass Corporation and partner NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s leading mobile operator.

Indonesian telco Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison said on Wednesday it has signed a MoU with Nokia and Nvidia at Mobile World Congress 2025 to deploy AI-RAN infrastructure in Indosat’s network.

Indonesian telco Telkomsel and ZTE signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at Mobile World Congress 2025 in Barcelona on Tuesday to collaborate on AI-based technologies, 5G-LAN, and ultra-compact solutions for private industrial networks.

Hytera Communications, a provider of professional communications technologies and solutions, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Cable & Wireless Seychelles (CWS), the country’s pioneering quad-play telecommunications operator at MWC.

At MWC Barcelona 2025, Li Peng, Huawei's Corporate Senior Vice President and President of ICT Sales & Service, delivered a keynote on how carriers can make the most of AI to fully unleash the value of their networks.

Intelligent connectivity company Syniverse has announced that it has furthered its partnership with Limitless Mobile, a specialist mobile network operator (MNO) focused on enabling technically advanced mobile use cases for enterprise and government customers, by providing connectivity for the first commercial 5G SA roaming sessions involving MNOs globally. Both companies are attending MWC25.

Philippines operator Globe Telecom and Orex SAI, Japanese operator Docomo's open RAN service brand, developed in collaboration with multiple global vendors, have announced a partnership to collaborate in the Philippines to launch a demonstration experiment for open RAN.