Helios Investment Partners and Orange are reportedly close to reaching a deal for the sale of the latter’s stake in Telkom Kenya.

Two major operators in Bangladesh are considering merging their units in the region to take on the market leader, Grameenphone.

Two Polish operators have struck out against the country’s government for attempting to amend the rules of its ongoing 4G spectrum auctions.

A new Vodafone initiative is delivering digital books to schools in Romania via wallpaper that can be scanned with smartphones.

American Tower Corp is acquiring a stake in Indian tower firm Viom Networks.

The conferencing services market across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) is seeing a significant shift to packaged services apparent in demand and vendor offerings.

Thai operator CAT Telecom has dropped out of the country’s delayed 4G auctions.

International internet capacity growth in Africa is outpacing growth in all other regions, with an compound annual growth over the past five years of 51%.

Bharti Airtel can continued its ongoing process of divesting its tower infrastructure by selling 949 telecoms towers to IHS Holding, which it will now lease back.

Nokia has set the stage for a provisional Chinese joint venture to be formed once its acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent is complete.

Turkey’s three major operators have spent €3.36 billion securing spectrum in the country’s much-anticipated 4G auctions.

Israeli market leader Cellcom is mulling over an acquisition of the country’s smallest competitor, Golan Telecom.

Indian market  leader Bharti Airtel has confirmed its acquisition of Indian ISP Augere Wireless Broadband amid speculation that it may sell its units in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

General Cable Corporation has announced the completion of the sale of its Thailand operations to MM Logistics Co. for cash consideration of approximately US$88 million.

Telecoms service provider ZTE has signed a global cooperation agreement with operator Telefónica, strengthening an existing arrangement whereby ZTE becomes the primary technology partner of Telefónica.

Mexico's telecommunications services will generate US$26.3 billion in revenues in 2018, according to new data published by Dataxis, a 4.2 per cent increase on 2014 figures.

Leading Libyan telecoms and IT firm LPTIC has announced the "strategic consolidation" of several Libyan-owned shareholdings in mobile and fixed-line network operating companies in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Nokia Networks and Save the Children have announced the extension of their partnership to protect Indian children during disasters, with Nokia set to deploy solutions to enable critical communication during disasters.

The GSMA has announced the appointment of Mats Granryd as new director general and member of the GSMA board, to lead the organisation in its efforts towards "connecting the world".

India is expected to be the largest contributor to global smartphone unit growth this year, according to a new report, which also notes that 58 per cent of smartphones sold in the second quarter of 2015 were 4G-enabled.

Israeli operator Partner Communications has received €15 million from Orange under the terms of a new framework agreement regarding use of the Orange brand in the country.

Emerging markets-focused ISP New Call Telecom is attempting to bolster its presence in the Indian OTT/app space by acquiring as many as 4 new companies.

Turkish market leader Turkcell has begun a preliminary review to establish whether it will bid in the upcoming tender for managing Lebanon’s state-owned mobile networks.