YTL Power International revealed on Friday that it will collaborate with GPU chip maker Nvidia to build an AI data centre in Malaysia by the middle of next year.
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Nokia and du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), say they have wrapped up a trial of 5G-Advanced RedCap technology over du’s commercial network in Dubai.
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The apparent award of an enormous tower leasing deal to American Tower Corporation (ATC) by operator MTN Nigeria is facing a challenge from ousted rival bidder IHS Holding.
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Thai telco True Corp and ZTE have revealed details on their collaboration to deploy a ‘fiber to the room’ (FTTR) optical Wi-Fi solution for Wyndham Royal Lee Phuket that provides gigabit connections for every room in the hotel.
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UAE telco du announced that it has reduced power consumption on its mobile network by leveraging 5G technology from Ericsson, as well as its own in-house solar-power solution.
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Poland's largest power grid operator PGE has selected Nokia to deploy a country-wide critical backhaul network.
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A recently announced collaborative effort aims to deploy sustainable broadband, connecting millions in Africa, fostering local businesses, and promoting sustainability.
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Last week, we examined the impact of mobile money in Africa, exploring the runaway success of M-Pesa in Kenya by framing this against the broader backdrop of the continent, where mobile money has frequently been touted as the solution to financial inclusion.
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Safaricom continues to enhance the offering of its recently launched Ethiopian service. The latest innovation is a payment system aimed at entrepreneurs, businesses and government.
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Axiata Group announced Wednesday that it will restructure its Indonesian subsidiaries XL Axiata and Link Net to better take advantage of growing demand for fixed broadband and fixed mobile convergence (FMC) services.
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According to local press reports an international tender notice has been launched in Madagascar for the provision of satellite services.
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Is the long-running saga of the five broken undersea cables linking Vietnam with the world now over? Regional reports suggest it may be, at least for now.
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Pan-African operator Airtel Africa has announced the launch in Africa of Nxtra by Airtel, a data centre business.
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UAE telecoms group etisalat by e& has announced a strategic alliance with Huawei to unveil what is described as the first net zero 5G Massive MIMO site deployment in the MENA region.
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Service providers Ooredoo Group and Zain Group, along with TASC Towers Holding have joined forces to create what is described as the largest tower company in the MENA region in a cash and share deal after talks that began in July.
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PLDT’s wireless arm Smart Communications says it has successfully tested a fully functional Open RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) in a proof of concept (POC) with Japan’s NTT DoCoMo.
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Veon’s Ukrainian subsidiary Kyivstar announced it will partner with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support businesses in Ukraine with cloud infrastructure and related services.
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Liberty Latin America (LLA) subsidiary Liberty Networks has partnered with Gold Data to create a pan-regional subsea cable system connecting the US and Mexico to Colombia and Panama by combining two cable projects.
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Operator Tigo Tanzania has partnered with DCB Bank to expand financial inclusion for the unbanked through a service partnership that will enable customers to access the bank's services through mobile payment service Tigo Pesaʼs network of mobile money agents.
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Globalsat Group, a provider of mission-critical satellite and wireless connectivity solutions is partnering with satellite network operator Rivada Space Networks to provide access to a next-generation data network for customers in the energy, government, NGO, agriculture, utilities and transportation sectors throughout the Americas and beyond.
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ST Telemedia Global Data Centres’ Thailand unit says it has signed a strategic MoU with industrial power company B.Grimm Power to study, design and jointly develop low-carbon energy solutions for the data centre sector.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) said on Thursday that Malaysia’s Axiata Group has selected AWS as its primary cloud provider as part of its plan to accelerate digital transformation across its operating companies in Southeast Asia and South Asia.
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Indonesian telecoms infrastructure Dayamitra Telekomunikasi (Mitratel) said it has added more towers and optical fibre to its portfolio via separate acquisition deals worth a combined US$167.3 million.
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Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL), India’s leading private sector player for aerospace and defence solutions, and Satellogic, a major name in sub-meter resolution earth observation (EO) data collection, have announced a collaboration for establishing and developing local space technology capabilities in India.
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Warply, described as a leading fintech innovator with a growing presence in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, has announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Mastercard, a global technology company in the payments industry.
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DataVolt has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with three ministries in Uzbekistan that will see it developing green data centres in the market.
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The need for connectivity is universal and is continually growing as more and more aspects of our lives are enhanced by it. Service providers must, therefore, adapt to survive, transforming their architecture with open networks to deliver a superior user experience while growing sustainably and avoiding vendor lock-ins.
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Telekom Malaysia’s enterprise/government business arm TM One said on Wednesday it is collaborating with the government’s PLANMalaysia to help local city councils accelerate their smart city initiatives.
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Telecoms tower company edotco announced a new partnership with integrated network solutions provider Zeta IOS to provide satellite-based solutions to boost rural connectivity in Malaysia.
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Hybrid multicloud computing company Nutanix and enterprise networking and security group Cisco have announced a collaboration in the Egyptian market.
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A group that gives African farmers improved access to localised weather data has enjoyed a major boost to its efforts to supply value-added weather intelligence services.
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Mobile money is one of the great success stories in Africa – or at least, this is the popular narrative around the technology. In this two-part series of Features, we will examine mobile money’s impact in Africa, and the extent to which it really has revolutionised financial inclusion in the continent.
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The Smart Africa Alliance has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with pan-African digital connectivity solutions company Bayobab and infrastructure investment platform Africa50 to support the fibre optic cable initiative Project East2West with regulatory and policy engagements.
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Chinese smartphone vendor Realme announced it had shipped 200 million units since launching in 2018, making it the fifth largest vendor according to Counterpoint Research.

