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The DARE1 consortium has landed cables in Somalia’s two largest coastal cities, Mogadishu and Bosaso.

Internet para Todos Perú (IpT Peru) has partnered with Parallel Wireless to deploy hundreds of programmable virtualised 4G OpenRAN sites for mobile broadband.

Expanded internet access is coming to rural customers throughout Mexico over the next three years thanks to thousands of new Wi-Fi hotspots.

India has given Apple the go-ahead to open branded retail outlets in the market, with the US firm planning a launch in 2021.

A Rwandan data centre that hosts servers related to the country’s government has been brought offline by hackers.

Pioneering South African operator Rain, which launched a 5G service late last year, has now launched a new payment product, called the Standard Plan, which offers subscribers an uncapped 30Mbps service for R699 (about $44.75) per month.

Orange, a multi-service telecommunications operator present in 18 countries in Africa, will be the first operator to adopt the O3b mPOWER  from SES, a next-generation medium earth orbit (MEO) satellite communications system, starting in the Central African Republic.

A new open-access agreement has been signed by six broadband providers in Saudi Arabia.

In the mobile broadband data era it is forecast that over 80% of traffic will occur in indoor locations creating demand for new indoor coverage solutions.

The Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) has partnered with tower firm K-Net to deliver connectivity to one of the country’s more remote regions.

Huawei has launched new a new range of OceanStor 5G-Era storage solutions designed to help carriers and enterprises cope with the explosive growth of mass data in the 5G era.

Turkcell has selected Mavenir to test and deploy OpenRAN vRAN within its home market.

Indonesia is the latest country to introduce a Sigfox IoT network, with the recent official launch by Sigfox Indonesia of what it calls its 0G network for IoT operation in the country.

Recent 5G coverage has reported launch activity in Thailand, Tajikistan and Croatia, though what constitutes a launch may be up for debate; a couple of 5G debuts are concentrated in a relatively small area.

Nepal’s Subisu Cablenet is boosting its network capacity using Nokia’s 100G backbone optical network.

MTN has selected Tecnotree as its strategic partner for Digital Transformation across Africa and the Middle East.

Telefonica has launched an IP Network Fusion Project for digital network transformation in the Chilean market.

Infinet Wireless has installed a new high-capacity wireless infrastructure to improve public safety and expand its geographical coverage in Mexico’s Zacatecas state.

At the Huawei products and solutions launch in London, Huawei unveiled the world's first series of ONTs OptiXstar V864/K654 with embedded AI (eAI).

Claro Argentina, a leading mobile network operator in the Argentine market, has signed an agreement with Spanish satellite telecommunications operator Hispasat.

An independent survey has once again named Huawei as market leader in the optical network terminals (ONT) sector, a position it has now occupied for the last seven years.

According to local press reports, Malaysia’s Axiata Group, one of the leading telecommunications groups in Asia, is planning to go ahead with a bid for a digital banking licence in the country.

While much if the rest of the word is arguing about whether or not to partner with China for 5G rollouts, the expansion of 5G networks in China itself may be slowing – an unexpected victim of the ongoing Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak.

Uzbekistan’s state operator Mobiuz has embarked on a wide-reaching modernisation of its network in order to boost capacity and quality of service.

Etisalat is set to trial Parallel Wireless 2G, 3G, 4G & 5G OpenRAN across its markets in Middle East, Asia and Africa.

The Europe India Gateway(EIG) submarine cable system has been upgraded to accelerate and strengthen connectivity between businesses in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and India, says Ciena, a networking systems, services and software company.

Cable system solutions company Huawei Marine Networks (HMN) has announced that it has been awarded a contract for a new submarine cable project: the Maldives Sri Lanka Cable System (MSC).

MTN Group, the largest mobile operator in Africa, has chosen TEOCO, a provider of analytics, assurance and optimization solutions, to standardize its radio and microwave network planning tools.

News reports from Kenya indicate that the country is edging closer to 5G rollout. The early indications are that leading operator Safaricom, pioneer of mobile money and the dominant force in the market, with close to two thirds of all subscribers, will be the first company to launch 5G.

Orange Egypt has implemented Ericsson’s digital billing solutions as part of a push towards digitalisation in the market.

Polish operator Polkomtel – branded as Plus - has chosen Ericsson to supply equipment for its 5G Radio Access Network.

Telekom Slovenije and Iskratel are partnering to develop 5G networking solutions.