New Caledonian operator OPT-NC has successfully completed its first satellite mobile connectivity test in New Caledonia in partnership with satcoms company Lynk Global.

Google has signed a deal with agroforestry carbon removal firm Thryve.Earth to purchase 260,000 tons of carbon removal credits from a reforestation project in Sulawesi, Indonesia.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a senior loan of up to €270 million to Yas, a leading pan-African telecommunications company owned by Axian Telecom, to support the expansion of digital infrastructure and improve connectivity across Africa.

The London Internet Exchange (LINX), the member-owned internet exchange operator, says it has welcomed Angani Ltd, described as the largest and fastest growing cloud services company in East Africa, to its LINX Nairobi interconnection hub.

The Bank of Central African States (BEAC) has officially joined the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS), which aims to enable the efficient flow of money securely across African borders.

Mercantile Space, a leading Nepalese communications technology company, is partnering with Rivada Space Networks to provide what is described as a unique next generation connectivity network with the necessary security and performance to drive digital innovation and transformation.

The UAE-headquartered operator group e& is selling its 16.21% stake in Vodafone Group to Vega, an acquisition vehicle wholly owned by the family of French billionaire Xavier Niel, for £4.4 billion (US$5.95 billion).

India has approved a joint venture between Chinese smartphone vendor Vivo and electronic manufacturer Dixon Technologies, as the government continues to strengthen domestic electronics manufacturing under its Make in India strategy.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) announced on Thursday it has launched a new initiative to develop frameworks that ensure that the behaviour of AI agents are trustworthy and accountable.

MTN Ghana and Telecel Ghana are reportedly planning to make bids for 5G licences after the government revoked the exclusive concession of 5G wholesaler Next-Gen Infraco (NGIC).

Airties is set to acquire Bengaluru-headquartered Aprecomm, a provider of self-healing network and customer experience solutions.

Operator Vodafone says is trialling energy-saving 5G technology in Turkey, using new radio antennas and advanced engineering designed to boost performance and resilience while saving power.

Agribusiness seems to have become a very attractive proposition for IoT equipment and services providers, as a recent announcement from the LoRa Alliance, the organisation defining, evolving and promoting the LoRaWAN standard, indicates.

Airtel Africa reduced diesel consumption by 9.1 million litres during its 2025/26 financial year as the operator accelerated efforts to lower emissions and improve the sustainability of its network operations.

East African cloud services provider Angani has joined the London Internet Exchange (LINX)’s Nairobi interconnection hub for regional peering in Kenya.

Philippine telco PLDT said on Wednesday that its wireless arm Smart Communications has successfully completed a live trial of Nokia’s local-breakout roaming technology that it hopes will improve the outbound data roaming experience for subscribers.

Saudi telco Zain KSA said on Tuesday it’s collaborating with open-source solutions provider Red Hat to make its internal digital backbone ready to support AI app development and deployment across its businesses.

NEC XON Systems and PowerX have announced a strategic partnership to deliver intelligent remote management system (RMS) and energy efficiency solutions for large, distributed telecommunications networks across Africa.

Underlining the continuing difficulties faced by telecoms companies in extending broadband rollout is news of complaints from a recent forum hosted by the Association of Telecoms Companies of Nigeria in Lagos.

A recently announced collaboration is set to deliver Eutelsat OneWeb low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite services to heavy industries operating across Southern Africa.

South Africa mobile network operator rain and technology giant Huawei say they are jointly accelerating the deployment of a sub-1GHz massive MIMO 5G network across South Africa, with plans to deploy a multi-thousand-site scale commercial network.

Sri Lankan telco Dialog Axiata announced on Tuesday it has launched Dialog Pay, a unified payments and financial services ecosystem designed to boost adoption of digital payments.

Agentic AI and automation solutions provider Flytxt announced on Tuesday it is partnering with Digicel Trinidad & Tobago (T&T) to optimize its customer value management (CVM) platform with AI.

Nepalese cloud service provider DataHub has teamed up with Hosted AI, a turnkey platform for GPU orchestration, monetisation and neocloud operations to launch an AI cloud offering in Nepal.

Latin American digital infrastructure provider Cirion Technologies confirmed that it has restored 62% of the services knocked out by the two recent earthquakes in Venezuela.

Gabon has inaugurated its first Tier III international-standard data centre, in a move widely described as being aimed at strengthening the country’s digital sovereignty and expanding its digital infrastructure.

Tech giant Huawei and the Argentinian Agricultores Federados Argentinos (AFA) association have signed a cooperation agreement to accelerate the digital transformation of Argentina’s agricultural sector.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) provided Airtel Africa with a US$150 million loan to help expand and modernise its mobile networks, targeting improved connectivity in underserved communities across the continent.

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) will extend the tenure of President Director and Chief Executive Officer Vikram Sinha for another five years, subject to shareholder approval at the company’s upcoming Annual General Meeting.

Conversational agentic AI is heralded as the next big opportunity for 5G – provided 5G operators have sufficient uplink speeds to support its latency requirements. But a new report from Ookla finds that most don’t – and the gap is getting worse.

French satellite startup Univity – which plans to launch very low earth orbit (VLEO) satellites for wholesale 5G direct-to-device (D2D) services – said on Monday it has signed an MoU with Telkom Indonesia’s satellite arm Telkomsat to cooperate on satellite-based connectivity solutions.

ZTE revealed on Monday it has signed an MoU with Indonesian telecoms infrastructure and network provider MoraRepublic to collaborate on developing and expanding fixed wireless access (FWA) and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) services for residential and enterprise customers.