U Mobile has extended its existing Business Support System (BSS) partnership with Ericsson to move towards fully converged billing.

Thai market leader AIS and state-run provider TOT have agreed a deal that will allow the former to deliver commercial services using the latter’s 2.1GHz spectrum.

China has maintained its dominance in the global IoT market, with Chinese operators covering around 46% of cellular IoT connections in Q3 2017.

Huawei has won a $28.5 million contract to overhaul Filipino market leader PLDT’s online charging and electronic loading platforms for prepaid users.

Tencent has hit back against suggestions that it monitors user accounts by stating that it does not store user messages sent via its popular WeChat service.

NEC Corporation is supplying a wide-area disaster prevention system to the Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysical Agency of the Republic of Indonesia (Indonesia).

Timor Telecom (TT) has expanded its partnership with SES Networks to enable international voice traffic between Timor-Leste and the rest of the world, SES announced today.

PT Hutchison 3 Indonesia (H3I) has chosen the Nokia Cloud Packet Core solution to help meet rapid data growth in the Indonesian market.

Ooredoo Myanmar is launching direct carrier billing in the market with Fortumo.

Thai regulator the NBTC has awarded a satellite licence to start up firm mu space, allowing it to offer satellite-based services until 2032.

China Mobile is launching a suite of Rich Communication Services (RCS) across the country from 1^st December, placing it in direct competition with messaging firm Tencent.

PLDT’s chairman and CEO Manuel Pangilinan has stated that the company may form a strategic partnership with a Chinese firm, either for its digital arm Voyager Innovation or for the operator as a whole.

Timor Telecom is providing a trial Wi-Fi service in Timor-Leste’s capital Dili using SES Networks’ fibre-like connectivity.

Following an examination of Line Mobile’s business model, Thai regulator NBTC has ruled that the company does not require an MVNO licence.

Nokia and China Unicom are deploying Nokia Flexi Zone small cells and an AirScale low power radio head in 31 provinces in China.

Solomon Telekom Company Limited, trading under the name Our Telekom, is boosting its capacity with SES Networks to support the launch of its upcoming 4G/LTE network across the Solomon Islands archipelago.

Qualcomm has signed non-binding MoUs to supply components to three Chinese smartphone manufacturers – Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi.

Thailand’s upcoming auction of 850MHz and 1.8GHz spectrum will see four blocks made available at similar reserve prices to its last auction in 2015.

Ooredoo Myanmar is significantly expanding its network and infrastructure to offer the fastest and widest 4G network in the country.

Shipments of iPhones in China hit 11 million in Q3, a year-on-year increase of 40% that goes against the trend of diminishing smartphone sales in the market.

The take-up of 4G services has increased by 2.5 times in Indonesia across the past year, with penetration rates for LTE reaching 21%.