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Orange Poland has selected Juniper Networks to enhance the resilience and automation capabilities of its IP network core.

ZASpace is the name of a new South African organisation that will, it is hoped, galvanize the country’s geospatial industry and bridge the skills deficit in this sector.

Recent local press reports, along with news from satellite launch company Arianespace, indicate that Egypt has successfully launched the telecommunications satellite TIBA- 1.

Ooredoo Kuwait has selected Fortinet to provide its secure SD-WAN managed service.

If you needed further proof of the diversification of what was once a dedicated e-commerce company, the fact that the Amazon subsidiary Amazon Web Services recently announced the expansion of AWS Ground Station in the Middle East should give some indication.

More 5G activity has been reported in two very different markets in West Africa: Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, and Gabon, whose population, at an estimated 2.1 million, is a little over one hundredth the size of Nigeria’s.

Malaysian satellite operator MEASAT and satellite services provider Arianespace have announced the signing of a launch services contract for MEASAT-3d that could boost 4G and 5G growth in Malaysia.

You wouldn’t necessarily describe it as unobtrusive, but Mynmar’s first telecom tower constructed from bamboo, which has been installed in Thanlyin, a major port city, is certainly sustainable.

The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) is coming to South Africa for the first IAA Symposium on Small Satellites in Africa.

A plan to upgrade communications infrastructure connecting the major Myanmar cities of Nay Pyi Taw, Yangon and Mandalay, along with the Thilawa Special Economic Zone (SEZ), has been announced.

Described by international operator Eutelsat as a major contribution to reducing the digital divide in Africa and Europe, Eutelsat’s KONNECT satellite is now ready to ship to its launch site with a launch planned for mid-January 2020.

Wiicom has tapped Intracom Telecom for a network delivering mobile and ultra-broadband services to residential consumers and businesses across Cameroon that cannot be reached by fibre.

IT services, consulting and business solutions organization Tata Consultancy Services has announced the launch, in collaboration with wireless technology giant Qualcomm Technologies Inc, of what it calls a first-of-its-kind Innovation Hub in Hyderabad, India.

Data centre company PT DCI Indonesia (DCI) has announced that it will build a third data centre facility in Cibitung – but it’s not stopping there.

Underlining its growing strength in diverse areas of telecommunications and IT, search engine giant Google has announced that Curie, a 10,500-kilometer-long undersea cable, now connects Google data centres in the US and Chile.

According to reports in the Chinese press, the country’s leading operator is targeting the signing of some 70 million 5G users by the end of 2020.

The city of Jerusalem is deploying Siklu’s millimeter wave (mmWave) core and access network equipment for an ongoing project which will become one of the largest municipal networks in the world.

Better communications for remote areas of Sudan are the hoped-for result of a new agreement between a number of satcoms companies.

The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) has granted Bharti Airtel Lanka a 5MHz block of 900MHz spectrum.

Pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom has launched the fastest direct land-based fibre link connecting East to West Africa.

MTN South Africa has selected Ericsson as a 5G network modernization vendor. Ericsson will supply 5G products and solutions from its radio access network (RAN), transport and core portfolios, with commercial rollout expected to start in 2020.

Indian press reports are suggesting that the Chennai-Andaman and Nicobar Islands (CANI) submarine cable systems project is expected to be completed by 2020.

Gaw Capital Partners has announced that a fund under its management has formed a joint-venture partnership with Centrin Data to acquire, develop and operate a portfolio of hyper-scale IDC projects in China.

Pan-African operator Africell has launched its first 3G smart feature phone, afriphone.

Satellite networking technology, solutions and services provider Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd has been awarded a $10m five-year project for 3G/4G backhaul services in Peru.

Spacecom, operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, and an exhibitor and sponsor at AfricaCom 2019, has announced that a leading Angolan satellite services company has signed a contract for C-Band HTS capacity on the newly launched AMOS-17 communication satellite.

A meeting of regional telecommunications leaders has approved the final stages of planning for the installation of the Manatua – One Polynesia Cable.

Zain, an operator with a commercial footprint in eight Middle Eastern and African countries, has selected Ericsson to build its 5G network in Bahrain.

Workz Group and Econet Zimbabwe announced a deal that will see them offer Zimbabwean subscribers network connectivity via embedded SIM devices such as the iPhone XS/XR/11 and Microsoft Surface Pro X.

Telefonica has selected Comtech EF Data Corp’s Heights Networking Platform for a multi-year program to upgrade Vivo Brazil and Telefonica Argentina’s networks in support of 2G, 3G and LTE backhaul.

Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) is using Intracom Telecom’s WiBAS Point-to-MultiPoint (PtMP) technology to offer state-of-the-art microwave connectivity solutions to its customers.