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PT Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel), an Indonesian wireless network provider, working in partnership with Chinese equipment manufacturer ZTE, has deployed the first operational 5G system in the country's easternmost province Papua.

A province in the west of Argentina is about to receive a major boost to its fibre optic provision after the signing of a new contract.

STC is deploying Infinera’s ICE6 800G-capable technology on its submarine cable networks to enable new regional and international connectivity services and infrastructure development.

Indonesian digital telecommunication firm Indosat Ooredoo and Cisco announced they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and intend to collaborate on the development of next-generation connectivity solutions for businesses of all sizes.

Zain Group, a mobile telecom service provider in seven markets across the Middle East and Africa, announced that Zain Esports has partnered with the Kuwait Olympic Committee (KOC), to promote esports and the overall gaming ecosystem within Kuwait, with a forthcoming event positioned to fuel further interest from the community.

DCI Indonesia, a leading data centre provider in Indonesia, has opened the first phase of its second data centre campus outside Jakarta. H2 campus, as it is known, is sited on 791 hectares and has a total capacity of up to 600MW.

Oman’s first satellite will be launched into Earth’s lower orbit by the end of 2022.

The regular issues facing Vietnam’s undersea cable connections since 2017 have continued long into 2021. Not long ago, the Asia America Gateway (AAG) undersea cable broke down yet again. This is apparently the third time the cable has been broken this year.

Telkom Kenya has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Ericsson and NEC XON to boost the operator’s network with an additional 2000 wireless sites by 2023.

Iraqi operator Asiacell has announced that it is extending its strategic partnership with Ericsson to enhance and improve its LTE services in the country.

Banking software firm Temenos has announced contract wins in Cambodia and Egypt.

Indian multinational telecommunications services company Bharti Airtel has rolled out the "5G for Business" initiative to demonstrate a wide range of enterprise-grade use cases using high speed & low latency networks.

Indian operator Vodafone Idea Limited (Vi) has announced plans to test 5G-based solutions involving aerial traffic management and motion capture systems as part of its ongoing 5G trials on government-allocated 5G spectrum.

Hungary's Innovation and Technology Ministry and Huawei Technologies Hungary signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on long-term cooperation in Budapest.

NTV Plus, the Russian digital satellite television service from NTV, said that the subscriber base of its OTT platform exceeded the threshold of 205,000 in the third quarter of this year.

Telecom Namibia (TN), the telecommunications service provider operating in Namibia, announced the launch of the 4G LTE Network in Groot Aub.

Satellite broadband service provider Yahclick, an Abu Dhabi-listed Yahsat subsidiary, has signed a partnership with iSat Africa to expand its enterprise business in Nigeria, Zambia, the DRC, and East Africa.

Russia’s largest mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Ericsson) have signed a strategic partnership to develop private 5G-ready networks (dedicated networks) for industrial enterprises in Russia.

With the continued drop in fixed voice service revenue failing to offset the steady growth in fixed broadband service revenues, the total fixed communications services revenue in Thailand is set to decline from US$5.0bn in 2021 to US$4.5bn in 2026.

Technology group Liquid Intelligent Technologies and telecommunications carrier Orange have announced a new partnership to leverage each other's existing networks in Africa, allowing them, as they put it, even greater access and opportunity to build their businesses throughout the continent.

Airtel Africa, a provider of telecommunications and mobile money services with a presence in 14 countries across Africa, has announced the launch of a comprehensive – and ambitious – sustainability strategy.

Microfinance firm Barko is entering South Africa’s retail banking market with a new digital bank built on Temenos Transact and powered by The Temenos Banking Cloud.

Bharti Group-backed satellite broadband startup OneWeb and Saudi Arabia's Neom Tech and Digital Holding Company have signed a pact for a USD200 million joint venture to provide satellite-based services to the Middle East and East African countries.

The telecommunications service provider in Balcarce, Argentina, Alvis SA has tapped Nokia for the deployment of a 4G/LTE and 5G-ready network to boost connectivity for underserved communities and businesses across the country.

Iraqi internet service provider ScopeSky has tapped Nokia’s Nuage Networks to deploy its Virtualised Network Services (VNS) Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN).

Digital Realty, the world's largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, and Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund announced the formation of a joint venture to acquire Medallion Data Centres, Nigeria’s leading colocation and interconnection provider.

Satellite communications company ST Engineering iDirect has collaborated with technology provider XipLink to implement a security feature required for 4G backhaul services with an eye to 4G LTE deployments across the EMEA region.

Two tower-related stories from Malaysia indicate the continuing need for reliable infrastructure to meet the requirements of underserved rural areas.

Raxio Group, which describes itself as Africa’s premier platform of carrier-neutral, colocation, Tier III data centres, has invested in the first carrier-neutral Tier III data centre in Cote d’Ivoire.

Veon has signed a seven-year agreement with Amdocs to enable innovative digital services for its customers in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. 

JioPhone Next, the smartphone jointly developed by India's largest 4G network Reliance Jio and global internet major Google, will run on a new operating system called Pragati OS. The Pragati OS, powered by Android, has been built specifically for the country.

American multinational investment bank Goldman Sachs, through its Goldman Sachs Asset Management unit, signed a credit agreement with Elea Digital, the digital infrastructure unit of Brazilian group Piemonte Holding, to expand data centers.