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Orange has partnered with bancassurance leader NSIA to launch Orange Bank Africa in Abidjan and Côte d’Ivoire.

Leaders of the four nations behind the Manatua One Polynesia Cable Project have announced that the cable was accepted last week from turnkey supplier SubCom.

Turkcell is deploying Odine's end-to-end wholesale voice management platform to drive business automation and routing intelligence for its wholesale voice interconnect network.

Kacific has signed a five-year agreement with the Government of Tuvalu to provide the Pacific Island nation with high-speed broadband internet connectivity via satellite.

5G trials are on the way to Algeria and Mexico, according to recent reports, though the uses of 5G being tested will be very different.

A 4G-enabling analogue TV switch-off is almost complete in Cape Verde.

Orange Guinea Sonatel is implementing Alepo’s authentication authorisation and accounting (AAA) platform to digitise its FTTH offering.

Bharti Airtel has renewed its agreement with Ericsson to provide pan-India managed network operations.

MTS Belarus has nearly doubled data usage on its network after a substantial infrastructure deployment in the first half of this year.

SystemOne is using SIMs from Telecom 26 to enable real-time test result communication, timely containment and treatment actions for infectious disease programs in Ghana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

Telecom Namibia has announced the recent extension of its 3G and 4G mobile services to both urban and rural areas across the country – and there’s much more to come.

According to reports in the Brazilian press, Telefonica, which owns the Vivo brand, is to join Claro and TIM in bringing 5G to Brazil.

Nokia has won an IP/MPLS network deal with Thailand’s True Group.

Orange has selected Parallel Wireless to extend its coverage across multiple African markets, beginning with the Central African Republic.

Omantel has selected Ericsson to support the Sultanate’s ongoing 5G radio access network (RAN) deployment plans in a multi-year partnership.

Sri Lanka Telecom is deploying a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network based on Nokia’s fibre technology.

A boost for Latin American digital connectivity may be on the cards with the entry of  global telecoms operator BSO into the Latin American market.

There’s no denying that, even in post-lockdown India, demand for smartphones is still strong – but why can supply not keep up?

Following yesterday’s announcement that Zain is offering 5G coverage in all of Saudi Arabia’s regions, we also have 5G coverage news from Brazil and South Africa, although, confusingly, neither country has formally auctioned long-term 5G spectrum yet.

Kenya’s Safaricom has selected Aviat Networks’ WTM 4800 multi-band radio platform for 5G backhaul.

Middle Eastern press outlets have reported an alliance between Ooredoo Kuwait, a telecommunications company owned by the Qatar-based Ooredoo group, and Batelco, the principal telecommunications company in Bahrain, to establish what is known as Global Zone Kuwait.

Zain KSA now offers 5G coverage in all of Saudi Arabia’s regions after expanding its network to Al-Jouf and the Northern Borders.

A new era of stratospheric communications has begun, according to Loon, a company that offers a network of what it calls floating cell towers, and that is now providing service to subscribers of Telkom Kenya.

The government of Chad has launched a new initiative aimed at modernising the country’s networks.

Indian managed data centre service provider Yotta Infrastructure has announced the inauguration of what is described as India’s largest data centre building.

A premium residential internet service has been launched in Brazil, courtesy of global communications company Viasat.

The Chennai-Andaman & Nicobar Islands (CANI) submarine cable system project has received clearance from India’s National Board for Wildlife (NBWL).

Telia Estonia is planning to build a solar plant to cut costs at one of its data centres.

Local press reports indicate that the installation of a new submarine fibre optic cable system from Montserrat to a branching unit between Guadeloupe and Antigua has been successfully completed.

According to TeleGeography's CommsUpdate and local news reports, two of Saudi Arabia’s leading mobile operators are hoping to establish a joint tower company.

Indian press reports suggest that the country’s government is planning to provide nearly 500,000 fibre-to-home connections by September this year.

According to reports in the regional press and Reuters, a Vietnam-made 5G smartphone is on the way.