The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), a self-sustaining US government agency that helps American businesses invest in emerging markets, has announced that it plans to work with Trans Pacific Networks (TPN) to support the world’s longest subsea telecommunications cable.
According to regional press reports, Google is planning its to build a data centre for storage and server management in Uruguay — the second country in Latin America, after Chile, to house a Google data centre.
Infinet Wireless has made a number of new landmark implementation agreements across the African and Latin American markets.
Gulf Bridge International (GBI) and Microsoft have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will support regional cloud adoption amongst key organisations in the region.
A new Internet Exchange Point (IXP) has been launched in the Democratic Republic of Congo, potentially bringing faster and more reliable internet access to the country.
A new agreement between two leading names in satellite communications aims to enhance internet connectivity in sub-Saharan Africa.
A new ITU report reveals that over half the total global female population is still not using the internet.
Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy, has announced the expansion of its IP backbone reach in the Caucasus region with the opening of a new point of presence (PoP) in Yerevan, Armenia.
Connectivity provider Angola Cables and internet exchange (IX) operator DE-CIX have partnered to offer what the two companies describe as premium interconnection services to a variety of neutral IXs for operators and data centres across Latin America.
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du and Batelco have launched Arc, a joint venture aimed at simplifying intra-regional connectivity in the Middle East.
The race to 5G roll-out continues as next generation technology is tested in Costa Rica, assessed in Estonia and actually launched in Guam.
Reports from the press in Pakistan say that a submarine cable fault disrupted internet services in the country earlier this week.
Technology from live video streaming company LiveU is offering an alternative to traditional satellite, fibre and microwave technology for live coverage of South Africa’s popular horse racing industry.
Ooredoo Tunisia is deploying the Nokia AirGile cloud-native core and services to power its current 2G/3G/4G network in order to prepare for the transition to 5G.
The EllaLink Group and Telxius have signed a collaboration agreement for international subsea capacity and terrestrial connectivity in Latin America, including cable landing facilities in Fortaleza, Brazil.
Nokia has signed a contract with leading telecommunications service provider Hutchison 3 Indonesia (3ID) to provide IoT coverage to enterprises in Indonesia.
The population of the Solomon Islands, a state consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, can soon look forward to the benefits of cable-led communications, according to the Solomon Islands Submarine Cable Company (SISCC).
Partnerships and plans relating to 5G have recently been announced in Bangladesh and the Philippines.
Plans for a new cable system, which will directly connect Muscat, Oman, to Perth, Australia, have been announced. It will be called Oman Australia Cable (OAC).
Vodafone Idea is transforming its distributed network data centres to open standards, open interfaces based ‘Universal Cloud’ using solutions from Red Hat.
Seacom’s submarine cable system briefly experienced what the company called “a service-affecting outage” earlier this week.
Seychelles company Intelvision, which describes itself as “a 100 percent Seychellois-owned company providing TV and internet services to the local market”, is reportedly moving into the provision of mobile services in the country.
Openet, a supplier of digital and 5G BSS, has announced that its end-to-end Digital BSS suite has gone live to support Indonesian operator Telkomsel’s new digital prepaid cellular service.
A recently announced deal will see Airtel Africa’s mobile money operations integrated with Finablr’s technology platform and global network to facilitate seamless inward and outbound cross-border payments.
VEON has announced that its joint venture company in Kazakhstan, KaR-Tel LLC, operating under the Beeline brand, has launched a large-scale 5G network trial in Shymkent, Kazakhstan.
Telecoms giant Airtel Africa and pan-African banking group Ecobank Transnational Incorporated have signed a partnership that could enhance mobile commerce for their customers.
5G may not be here yet as an end-user offering in most countries, but trials and announcements in South America and the Middle East indicate that it may not be too far off.
Kazakhstan’s KaR-Tel has launched a large-scale 5G network trial in the city of Shymkent.
News reports from the Czech Republic press indicate that underuse of the country’s phone booths means that they will be dismantled or repurposed by 2020.
PT Indosat Tbk. (Indosat Ooredoo), a leading Indonesian digital telecommunications company, has agreed the sale of 3,100 of its mobile communications towers.
Indian operator Bharti Airtel has selected Ericsson to deploy its 5G-ready Cloud Packet Core in Airtel’s Pan India core network.
The date for the Colombian 700MHz, 1900MHz, 2500MHz auction has finally been agreed.
Qualcomm has announced a collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to support India’s Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC), in select chipset platforms across the company’s upcoming portfolio.
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