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Telserv and Etisalat have formed a strategic partnership to further enhance portfolios of both parties to serve customers around the world.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the development and testing of telco cloud solutions has been signed between Kazakhtelecom and Cisco in Barcelona during the MWC 2019 event.

SES has announced that its newest satellite, SES-12, is now ready to serve its video, fixed data, mobility and government customers across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.

MainOne has announced a metro fibre infrastructure project in two states of Nigeria, with support from Facebook. The infrastructure collaboration is part of Facebook’s efforts to connect more people to broadband internet.

Hammer Fiber Optics Holdings Corp (HMMR) and WCI have announced the signing of their second Letter of Intent (LoI) to provide fixed wireless, mobile data, voice and SMS services in Jamaica.

India’s Bharti Airtel is deploying Ciena’s coherent optical and intelligent software platforms to build one of the world’s largest photonic control plane networks.

Ericsson and China Unicom are developing a 5G smart harbour at the Port of Qingdao in China. The news follows a successful technical solution verification at the port.

Global cross-border payments network for emerging markets Thunes has partnered with Singtel to enable the Myanmar diaspora in Singapore to send money back to their home country through their mobile devices.

Etisalat and Huawei have formed a strategic partnership to deploy an end-to-end 5G network in UAE in 2019.

Uruguayan telco Antel and Tata Communications have joined forces to serve mobile and IoT providers in South America, Central America and the Caribbean. The partnership will act as the foundation for next-generation mobile and IoT services in sectors such as retail, utilities, construction, IT and banking.

Telefónica, Facebook, IDB Invest and CAF (Development Bank of Latin America) are launching Internet para Todos (IpT) Peru, an open access wholesale rural mobile infrastructure operator which aims to help bridge the digital divide in Latin America.

Ericsson has been selected by Ooredoo Qatar to make its ‘Supernet’ fully 5G-enabled and enhance the digital lives of people, enterprises and industries across Qatar.

Nokia and Saudi Telecom Company (STC) have signed a deal to set up a 5G network first in the western and southern part of Saudi Arabia, including the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah. The rollout phase is already ongoing and is expected to be completed by end of 2020.

Kazakh mobile operator Kazakhtelecom JSC and Swedish teleccom giant Ericsson have announced plans to cooperate for the development of 5G in Kazakhstan.

Prefabricated data centre specialist Flexenclosure is further expanding its footprint in Latin America with a new eCentre data centre order in El Salvador.

Standard Chartered has completed a simultaneous multi-market launch of its digitally-led retail banks in Tanzania and Ghana, with Kenya’s roll out scheduled to occur shortly.

Nokia has mounted a successful field trial of its Cloud RAN architecture on the China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC) live 5G NSA network in Shanghai.

The South African smartphone market enjoyed solid growth in 2018, with unit sales rising 7.2% year-on-year to around 13.5 million, and value growing 13.2% to just under R35 billion.

Turkcell and Airspan have announced the first deployment of AirDensity to deliver coverage and capacity to the most constrained indoor locations in Turkey.

Although most, or 65%, of mobile Internet users visit Google, they spend most of their time on social networks Youtube and Facebook, according to Latvia’s mobile operator BITE. These websites also consume the largest amount of Internet capacity.

Bolivia’s Telecommunications and Transport Regulation and Control Authority - ATT - reports that, at the end of 2018, there were 11,445,830 mobile connections in the country. This represents a penetration of just over 100%.

Nokia has announced that Bharti Airtel will trial its homogenous fronthaul solution which can support 4G, 5G and enterprise services through a common platform.

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has chosen Fontech software to deliver public Wi-Fi connectivity. The deal includes Fontech’s Wi-Fi Service Management Platform (WSMP) and Connection Manager.

Global communications company Viasat and social media behemoth Facebook are collaborating to accelerate the deployment of affordable, high-speed, high-quality internet to Mexican communities that lack reliable internet, or have no connectivity at all.

Chilean telecom operator Gtd Teleductos S.A. has awarded contracts worth €50 million to the Prysmian Group to develop a turnkey repeater-less submarine cable system connecting Arica to Puerto Montt in Chile.

Latvian telecommunications operator LMT has deployed Harmonic ‘s EyeQ™ content-aware encoding solution for its live OTT service, delivered to TVs via 4G set-top boxes.

Phoenix Tower International (PTI) has reached an agreement with Uniti Group to acquire the ownership rights relating to over 500 wireless communication tower sites located across Mexico, Colombia and Nicaragua.

Ericsson has been selected by Telefónica Movistar México, a subsidiary of Telefónica South America, to deploy the Service Operation Center (SOC) platform to enhance subscribers’ experience through Ericsson Expert Analytics.

Cambridge Broadband Networks (CBNL) has signed an agreement to provide carrier-class mmWave connectivity to MAXnet, the leading wireless internet service provider (WISP) in Sudan.

Es'hailSat, Qatar Satellite Company and BridgeSat will provide businesses and governments across the Middle East with affordable access to laser-based satellite broadband services.

Tele2 Russia has launched SunTech’s SunVizion Network Inventory and Planning solution to store and manage information about logical and physical network elements and optimise the processes related to network management.

Indian market leader Vodafone Idea has selected Ericsson to deploy 5G-ready equipment across select markets in India.

Hutchison Telecommunications Lanka (Hutch Lanka) and the Sri Lankan Board of Investments have signed a deal to deploy a 4G network across the island nation.