Africa’s smartphone market saw shipments decline 2.3 per cent quarter on quarter (QoQ) during Q3 2021, though feature phones performed reasonably well, according to the latest figures announced by market intelligence provider International Data Corporation (IDC).
Mexico’s MCM Telecom has announced a collaboration with Telia Carrier that will see its customers in Querétaro benefit from Telia Carrier’s number one ranked global backbone, AS1299.
A $6 billion high-speed rail line connecting China with its Southeast Asian neighbour Laos opened on Friday, a milestone in Beijing's ambitious Belt and Road infrastructure plans.
Vantage Data Centers, a global provider of large-scale data center campuses, along with Digital Bridge Group Inc., its lead investor, have completed the acquisition of PCCW’s data centre business (PCCW DC).
There have been a few interesting 5G developments in Malaysia lately relating to the planned Single Wholesale Network (SWN) that is to bring 5G to the country’s end users.
Kenya’s main power utility Kenya Power is reportedly planning to start offering internet connectivity.
Starlink Internet Services, a division of the SpaceX aerospace company, plans to apply for the appropriate licences to sell satellite-based internet commercially in India. This happened after last week’s announcement from India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) that the company had no right to sell broadband connections in the country as it had not yet been licensed to do so.
The Czech units of O2 and T-Mobile have confirmed that they shut down their 3G networks on 30th November.
Eutelsat and Vodacom Tanzania PLC have signed an agreement for packaged services to bring connectivity to underserved regions of Tanzania, leveraging the EUTELSAT KONNECT high-throughput satellite.
Reuters reported that Indian telecom operator Bharti Airtel is in early talks for a majority stake in broadcast satellite service provider Dish TV India Ltd, qutoting local media Mint.
Ukrainian fibre infrastructure and digital services provider Datagroup has tapped Cisco to modernise its backbone network.
Data centres and the cloud are again in the news in Latin America thanks to announcements from Google in Chile and Codisa in El Salvador.
Smartphones are getting cheaper. 3G and 4G are reaching more people than ever. However, nearly three billion people are still offline – and in fact have never used the internet. And, of those 2.9 billion, an estimated 96 per cent live in developing countries.
Singapore’s M1 has confirmed its intent to acquire a stake of “up to 70%” in Malaysia’s Glocomp Systems and two affiliate firms for SG$36 million (US$26.4 million).
Indonesia-based mobile telecommunications services operator XL Axiata said that its unit XL Axiata Business Solutions sees the huge market potential for business-to-business (B2B) and SME corporate services in Sumatra.
Could a new partnership be a boost for the Internet of Things – or at least the LoRaWAN version of IoT – in the Middle East and North Africa?
Indonesian converged network operator XL Axiata, says it is using the VIAVI ONMSi Optical Network Management System to increase visibility into its fibre network.
Tajikistan’s Babilon-Mobile, which operates as Babilon-M, has selected Baicells as its provider for hundreds of new 4G and 5G base stations to be deployed imminently.
Altice Dominicana has begun deploying its 3.5GHz 5G network in the Dominican Republic.
Liquid Intelligent Technologies has partnered with UNICEF to support the Giga Initiative – a collaboration between UNICEF and the ITU aimed at connecting schools across Africa.
By the end of 2027, 5G will represent around 39% of mobile subscriptions in India with an estimated 500 million subscriptions, said a report.
Finnish multinational telecommunications major Nokia announced the successful completion of the first 25GPON trial in Turkey with Turk Telekom.
The Office of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) in Thailand has announced a partnership with Huawei Technologies to accelerate fibre infrastructure development in Thailand at the “Giga Thailand: Broadband Forum”.
The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) has reportedly initiated a preliminary engagement with aerospace manufacturer, space transportation services and communications corporation SpaceX, exploring the introduction of Starlink internet services in the country.
Bridge Data Centres has announced plans to build another new data centre in Malaysia. The new facility will be located in the Kidex Sedenak business park in Sedenak, to the north of Johor, and will reportedly be the largest of its kind in Malaysia.
Bangladeshi operator Robi Axiata is joining Fortumo’s payments platform.
A new digital mobile network has launched in East Africa – an MVNO enabled by x-Mobility, a company that styles itself as an MVNE – a mobile virtual network enabler.
Airtel Lanka is set to extend its 4G services throughout Sri Lanka via a new network expansion initiative.
India's Reliance Industries (RIL), which controls Reliance Jio, is weighing a bid for UK-based telecommunications giant, BT, formerly British Telecom.
America's Apple iPhone has surpassed smartphone brand Vivo to emerge as the largest smartphone vendor in China in October 2021, says a report.
Is Africa a data centre opportunity or challenge? Either way, it is a market that is underserved relative to demand, so it may be no surprise that a new pan-African data centre company has announced its launch this week.
Nepal’s National Telecommunications Authority (NTA) has at long last cleared state-owned operator Nepal Telecom to trial 5G services in the market.
Vietnam’s state-owned VNPT (Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group) has launched a pilot mobile money service nationwide.
Three Chinese operators have deployed Huawei MetaAAU — a comprehensive 5G solution — in Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Xiamen.
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