State-owned operator Nepal Telecom suffered around NPR88 million (US$5.8 million) in damage after extreme flooding affected parts of South and Southeast Asia.
Infineon Technologies, a global semiconductor leader in power systems and IoT, says it has officially inaugurated its new backend manufacturing site in Bangkok. Backend semiconductor manufacturing is the final stage of chip production.
Claro Colombia has entered the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) hosting market for the first time, signing an agreement with Movil Exito to provide network access alongside its existing arrangement with Tigo.
Telefonica is looking to exit Venezuela, with the Spanish group reportedly waiting for market conditions to improve before formalising a sale within the next year.
The Philippines' National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) has fined Globe Telecom, Smart Communications and DITO Telecommunity PHP100,000 (US$1,600) each per day until they meet required mobile broadband quality-of-service standards.
Helios Towers, a telecommunications infrastructure company, and child rights organisation UNICEF (the United Nations Children’s Fund) have announced a multi-year partnership to expand internet connectivity and digital learning access for children and young people across Africa.
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned governments, regulators, and meteorologists on Monday to safeguard radio frequency spectrum essential for weather forecasts, early warnings, climate monitoring and water management.
Cambodian telco CamGSM (a.k.a. CellCard) announced on Monday it has signed an MoU with Huawei to invest approximately US$300 million over the next few years to modernise its networks and data centre infrastructure.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has launched what it calls the Digital Connectivity Rating (DCR) platform, an integrated digital platform that establishes a transparent and standardised framework for assessing the digital connectivity readiness of properties.
Russia has struck the headquarters of Ukrainian operator Kyivstar as part of a wider series of attacks on data centres and communications infrastructure across the country.
Papua New Guinea’s state-owned telecoms network wholesaler PNG DataCo revealed on Sunday that recent service disruptions over the past month were due to separate incidents involving power supply problems, vandalism and subsea cable faults.
Humanitarian charity Save the Children and Vodafone Foundation, the philanthropic arm of multinational telecommunications company Vodafone, have formed a new global humanitarian partnership.
India’s three largest operators - Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea – will be required to offer affordable voice & SMS-only tariffs from next month, following a mandate from regulator TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India).
Thailand launched a new national strategy on Thursday to boost its semiconductor sector – which currently focuses mainly on assembly and packaging – into a fully integrated domestic chipset ecosystem by 2050.
A meeting of regional intergovernmental organisation the East African Community (EAC), along with East African trade bloc the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), and Eastern African countries implementing World Bank-supported digital transformation programmes has convened in Nairobi.
Cybastion, a US company that delivers digital and infrastructure solutions in Africa, has signed an agreement with Liberia’s Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection to develop women's technology and business innovation hubs with child care centres across the country.
Telkom Indonesia signed an MoU with China Unicom Indonesia Operations on Monday to explore ways to collaborate on digital infrastructure, connectivity, and technology solutions for the Indonesian market.
The GSMA and the Partnership for Digital Access in Africa (PDAA) launched a new roadmap on Monday that seeks to narrow Africa’s mobile internet usage gap and connect 1 billion people by 2030.
Mozambique’s communications regulatory authority INCM says it is responding to concerns expressed by consumers on social media and elsewhere regarding the rapid exhaustion of mobile data packages.
Zambia’s Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) has cancelled the operator licence of Beeline, which operated under the Z-Mobile brand, for failing to meet several regulatory obligations.
African digital infrastructure provider WIOCC is to receive investment of up to $155 million from the US International Development Finance Corporation.
Axian Telecom, the pan-African infrastructure and services group behind telecommunications company Yas, has announced that it is adopting Yas Group as its new corporate identity, replacing the Axian Telecom name across external communications, investor relations and regulatory engagement.
A three-judge High Court bench in Kenya has ordered that a 15% Kenyan government stake transferred to Vodacom should revert to the State after ruling that the transaction was unconstitutional.
WhatsApp’s forthcoming username feature was meant to solve a simple privacy problem: meeting a new customer, seller, colleague or community group should not require handing over a mobile number that may also be tied to banking, social media and one’s wider personal life.
The issue of whether and how Norway’s Telenor gave sensitive customer data to the military junta following the 2021 Myanmar coup is back in the headlines. Norwegian authorities have charged the operator with complicity in crimes against humanity and breaching sanctions in Myanmar.
At the China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE) in Shenzhen in September, Huawei demonstrated its third-gen optical interconnect product for SuperPod, the 7.2T NPO (near-packaged optics), which will be deployed in its future SuperPoD series.
Cybastion, a US company that delivers digital and infrastructure solutions in Africa, reportedly plans to mobilise about US$300 million for several projects supporting Senegal's digital transformation.
As Southeast Asia's largest digital economy, Indonesia is accelerating its journey toward the "Vision Indonesia Digital 2045" (VID 2045), where resilient and inclusive connectivity forms the foundation for socioeconomic growth. Against this backdrop, the largest network integration project in Indonesia's telecom history has achieved unprecedented success—surpassing 95% completion in record time, and receiving top industry awards for 5G and overall mobile network experience across the archipelago.
Digicel announced on Monday that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its El Salvador operations to General International Telecom El Salvador (GITES) as it sharpen its focus on its core Caribbean markets.
More than one in three (38%) people remains offline despite being covered by mobile broadband – and a lack of digital literacy skills is often to blame, according to new research published today.
In what could prove an important boost for the drive towards enabling cash-free economies in the developing world, the World Bank Group has launched an initiative to help local financial institutions expand digital payments in emerging markets.
ZTE and Uruguay's Antel have completed what they describe as the first validation of symmetric 50G PON technology in Latin America, demonstrating the coexistence of GPON, 10G PON and 50G PON on the same access network.
Pan-African telecoms firm Africell confirmed on Friday it has secured a US$99.6 million direct loan from the US Export-Import Bank (ExIm) primarily to enable the American-owned company to buy only US and European mobile network equipment.
Azerconnect’s international backbone operator AzerTelecom announced on Friday it has entered into a strategic partnership with DE-CIX to launch a new internet exchange in Azerbaijan.
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