Ericsson and Huawei have expanded their global patent licensing deal.

Indonesian operator 3 PT Hutchison 3 Indonesia (H3I) has partnered with net mobile AG to enable direct carrier billing for Windows apps purchases.

China Unicom and China Telecom have signed a cooperation agreement to compete more effectively against market leader China Mobile.

Ocean Networks has appointed Natixis to act as exclusive equity and debt advisor for the South America Pacific Link (SAPL) fibre optic cable system project currently under way.

China Unicom has formed a joint venture with Telefonica to offer big data services in its home market.

Ooredoo has selected GoSwiff as its partner for the implementation of its international mPOS (mobile point of sale) platform.

Vietnamese operator MobiFone has become the first operator in the country to launch a Wi-Fi calling service.

Brunei’s leading mobile operator Telekom Brunei Berhad (TelBru) has selected Aptilo Networks to enable carrier Wi-Fi for its Nationwide Wi-Fi service.

Thai market leader AIS has formed a new partnership with BaseKit to offer the latter’s website building platform to SMB clients.

China Mobile has put in a CNY31.88 billion ($4.98 billion) for local fixed-line provider Tietong in order to bolster its portfolio of assets.

The government of Myanmar has stated that it will make 4G spectrum available to operators as soon as they are able to begin providing commercial services.

AIS and True Move have become the first Thai operators to win 4G licences in the country’s long-delayed auctions.

Apple has established a new unit in Vietnam to facilitate imports and distribution in the market, which is seeing a huge increase in demand for smartphones.

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chanocha has issued a strongly-worded warning to the country’s state-owned operators over making further postponements to the already delayed 4G auctions.

Vietnamese market leader Viettel has partnered with mobile payments firm Fortumo to provide direct carrier billing to the operator’s subscribers.

Filipino number two Globe has pledged a minimum $200 million investment to upgrade the network of its recent acquisition, Bayantel.

Ericsson has strengthened its partnership with Indonesian operator Indosat with a new agreement to deploy 4G/LTE network in Greater Jakarta.

Mirantis has formed a joint venture with Chinese public cloud provider UCloud to accelerate adoption of OpenStack in China.

Vietnamese operator Mobifone has selected Synchronoss Technologies to deploy a wide range of its services and solutions over the next three years.

State-owned Thai operator TOT pulled out of negotiations with market leader AIS over the possibility of forming a joint venture for tower infrastructure.

The three major Chinese operators are allowing prepaid subscribers to carry their unused data allowances over into the next month.

Axiata’s tower subsidiary edotco is acquiring a 75% controlling stake in Digicel’s Myanmar Tower Company.