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Beyond robot races: Inside China Unicom and Huawei’s innovations for the mobile AI era

Beyond robot races: Inside China Unicom and Huawei’s innovations for the mobile AI era

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Beyond robot races: Inside China Unicom and Huawei’s innovations for the mobile AI era
Why agentic operations could redefine growth for telecom operators

Why agentic operations could redefine growth for telecom operators

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BoGuan LLM and 5G-A boosts digital cultural tourism in Xi’an

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ZTE and GSMA Announce Co-location Between ZTE Global Summit & User Congress and GSMA M360 ASEAN at MWC26 Shanghai

ZTE and GSMA Announce Co-location Between ZTE Global Summit & User Congress and GSMA M360 ASEAN at MWC26 Shanghai

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Mobile-based UNESCO project to train women teachers in South Sudan

Mobile-based UNESCO project to train women teachers in South Sudan

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810m women in LMICs still unconnected as mobile gender gap persists: GSMA

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810m women in LMICs still unconnected as mobile gender gap persists: GSMA
Philippine telcos deploy Starlink in Mindanao after deadly 7.8 quake

Philippine telcos deploy Starlink in Mindanao after deadly 7.8 quake

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MTN South Sudan campaigns to support maternal and child health needs

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MTN and UNHCR to connect displaced people in African countries

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Dialog Axiata unifies payments and financial services as Dialog Pay

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India widens crackdown on anonymous messaging with Telegram and Signal notices

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LoRa Alliance claims leading position in IoT for agriculture

LoRa Alliance claims leading position in IoT for agriculture

Airtel Africa cuts diesel use by 9.1m litres as sustainability drive gathers pace

Airtel Africa cuts diesel use by 9.1m litres as sustainability drive gathers pace

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Digital divide in developing markets persists despite connection growth: ITU

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Gravity Shift - Subscribers, bundles & the acquisition black hole

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LoRa Alliance claims leading position in IoT for agriculture

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Airties acquiring Aprecomm to expand in emerging markets

Airties acquiring Aprecomm to expand in emerging markets

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James Barton
Category: Customer Management
09 July 2026
75 views
  • Acquisitions
  • Customer Experience
  • AirTies
  • Artificial Intelligence

Airties is set to acquire Bengaluru-headquartered Aprecomm, a provider of self-healing network and customer experience solutions.

Vodafone claims strong results for energy-saving trials in Turkey

Vodafone claims strong results for energy-saving trials in Turkey

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Vaughan O'Grady
Category: Energy & Sustainability
09 July 2026
164 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Vodafone
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Turkey
  • 3.5GHz
  • 5G
  • Vodafone Turkey
  • Massive MiMo
  • Sustainability

Operator Vodafone says is trialling energy-saving 5G technology in Turkey, using new radio antennas and advanced engineering designed to boost performance and resilience while saving power.

LoRa Alliance claims leading position in IoT for agriculture

LoRa Alliance claims leading position in IoT for agriculture

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Vaughan O'Grady
Category: Enterprise Ecosystems
09 July 2026
204 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Latin America
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Brazil
  • Malaysia
  • Ghana
  • Agriculture
  • Bulgaria
  • IoT
  • LoRaWAN
  • LoRa Alliance
  • Sustainability
  • Sensors
  • Agribusiness
  • Satellite IoT

Agribusiness seems to have become a very attractive proposition for IoT equipment and services providers, as a recent announcement from the LoRa Alliance, the organisation defining, evolving and promoting the LoRaWAN standard, indicates.

Airtel Africa cuts diesel use by 9.1m litres as sustainability drive gathers pace

Airtel Africa cuts diesel use by 9.1m litres as sustainability drive gathers pace

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Manny Pham
Category: Energy & Sustainability
09 July 2026
542 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Airtel Africa

Airtel Africa reduced diesel consumption by 9.1 million litres during its 2025/26 financial year as the operator accelerated efforts to lower emissions and improve the sustainability of its network operations.

Angani joins LINX Nairobi for regional peering in Kenya

Angani joins LINX Nairobi for regional peering in Kenya

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James Barton
Category: Data Centres & Networks
09 July 2026
620 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Kenya
  • Internet Exchange Points
  • Peering
  • LINX

East African cloud services provider Angani has joined the London Internet Exchange (LINX)’s Nairobi interconnection hub for regional peering in Kenya.

PLDT’s Smart completes trial of Nokia’s local-breakout roaming solution

PLDT’s Smart completes trial of Nokia’s local-breakout roaming solution

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John Tanner
Category: Operators
09 July 2026
620 views
  • PLDT
  • Philippines
  • Nokia
  • Data Roaming
  • Smart Communications
  • Southeast Asia

Philippine telco PLDT said on Wednesday that its wireless arm Smart Communications has successfully completed a live trial of Nokia’s local-breakout roaming technology that it hopes will improve the outbound data roaming experience for subscribers.

Zain KSA taps Red Hat to make its organisation AI-ready

Zain KSA taps Red Hat to make its organisation AI-ready

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John Tanner
Category: Enterprise Ecosystems
09 July 2026
784 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Zain KSA
  • DevOps
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Red Hat

Saudi telco Zain KSA said on Tuesday it’s collaborating with open-source solutions provider Red Hat to make its internal digital backbone ready to support AI app development and deployment across its businesses.

Coltan from DRC conflict used in technology from major telecom firms

Coltan from DRC conflict used in technology from major telecom firms

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James Barton
Category: Devices & Platforms
08 July 2026
1558 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Rwanda
  • Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Supply Chain
  • Features
  • Conflict Minerals

A recent investigation by Global Witness has highlighted how conflict minerals sourced in the Democratic Republic of Congo continue to find their way into the supply chains of companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Vodafone.

NEC XON Systems and PowerX link up to support African networks

NEC XON Systems and PowerX link up to support African networks

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Vaughan O'Grady
Category: Service Management
08 July 2026
1668 views
  • Infrastructure
  • Energy Efficiency
  • SaaS
  • Remote Managed IT Services
  • Africa
  • Base Transceiver Stations
  • Networks
  • IoT
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • NEC XON
  • Predictive maintenance

NEC XON Systems and PowerX have announced a strategic partnership to deliver intelligent remote management system (RMS) and energy efficiency solutions for large, distributed telecommunications networks across Africa.

RoW issues and vandalism still affecting Nigerian fibre rollout

RoW issues and vandalism still affecting Nigerian fibre rollout

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Vaughan O'Grady
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
08 July 2026
928 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Nigeria
  • Fibre Optic Cable
  • NCC
  • Fibre Broadband
  • Digital Transformation
  • Vandalism
  • Right of way
  • FiberOne

Underlining the continuing difficulties faced by telecoms companies in extending broadband rollout is news of complaints from a recent forum hosted by the Association of Telecoms Companies of Nigeria in Lagos.

Collaboration aims to deliver LEO satcoms to Southern Africa’s heavy industries

Collaboration aims to deliver LEO satcoms to Southern Africa’s heavy industries

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Vaughan O'Grady
Category: Satellite Networks
08 July 2026
747 views
  • Backhaul
  • Industry
  • Low Latency
  • Satellite Services
  • IoT
  • Q-KON
  • LEO Satellite
  • Eutelsat OneWeb
  • SCAN RF Projects
  • iOCO Group

A recently announced collaboration is set to deliver Eutelsat OneWeb low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite services to heavy industries operating across Southern Africa.

Huawei and rain claim sub-1GHz breakthrough

Huawei and rain claim sub-1GHz breakthrough

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Vaughan O'Grady
Category: Wireless Networks
08 July 2026
1392 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • South Africa
  • Huawei
  • FDD
  • Massive MiMo
  • rain
  • 5G networks
  • Sub-1GHz

South Africa mobile network operator rain and technology giant Huawei say they are jointly accelerating the deployment of a sub-1GHz massive MIMO 5G network across South Africa, with plans to deploy a multi-thousand-site scale commercial network.

Dialog Axiata unifies payments and financial services as Dialog Pay

Dialog Axiata unifies payments and financial services as Dialog Pay

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John Tanner
Category: Mobile Finance
08 July 2026
1672 views
  • Central South Asia
  • Mobile Payments
  • Sri Lanka
  • Financial Services
  • Dialog Axiata

Sri Lankan telco Dialog Axiata announced on Tuesday it has launched Dialog Pay, a unified payments and financial services ecosystem designed to boost adoption of digital payments.

Digicel Trinidad & Tobago teams with Flytxt for AI-powered CVM

Digicel Trinidad & Tobago teams with Flytxt for AI-powered CVM

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John Tanner
Category: Customer Management
08 July 2026
1329 views
  • Caribbean
  • Customer Value Management
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Flytxt
  • Automation
  • Agentic AI

Agentic AI and automation solutions provider Flytxt announced on Tuesday it is partnering with Digicel Trinidad & Tobago (T&T) to optimize its customer value management (CVM) platform with AI.

DataHub and Hosted AI plan AI cloud offering in Nepal

DataHub and Hosted AI plan AI cloud offering in Nepal

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Vaughan O'Grady
Category: Cloud & Virtualisation
07 July 2026
2304 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Data Centres
  • Cloud Services
  • Nepal
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Hydro power
  • NVIDIA
  • GPUs
  • Hosted AI
  • DataHub

Nepalese cloud service provider DataHub has teamed up with Hosted AI, a turnkey platform for GPU orchestration, monetisation and neocloud operations to launch an AI cloud offering in Nepal.

Cirion restores most services after Venezuela quakes

Cirion restores most services after Venezuela quakes

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James Barton
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
07 July 2026
2099 views
  • Latin America
  • Venezuela
  • Submarine Cable
  • Disaster Management
  • Cirion Technologies

Latin American digital infrastructure provider Cirion Technologies confirmed that it has restored 62% of the services knocked out by the two recent earthquakes in Venezuela.

Gabon inaugurates Tier III data centre

Gabon inaugurates Tier III data centre

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Vaughan O'Grady
Category: Data Centres & Networks
07 July 2026
1552 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Data Centres
  • Gabon
  • Cameroon
  • Digital Transformation
  • Data Sovereignty
  • MoU
  • Digital Infrastructure
  • Tier III
  • ST Digital

Gabon has inaugurated its first Tier III international-standard data centre, in a move widely described as being aimed at strengthening the country’s digital sovereignty and expanding its digital infrastructure.

Huawei supports digital transformation of Argentinian agriculture

Huawei supports digital transformation of Argentinian agriculture

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Vaughan O'Grady
Category: Enterprise Ecosystems
07 July 2026
2411 views
  • Latin America
  • Huawei
  • Big Data
  • Agriculture
  • Cloud Computing
  • Solar Energy
  • Digital Transformation
  • Artificial Intelligence

Tech giant Huawei and the Argentinian Agricultores Federados Argentinos (AFA) association have signed a cooperation agreement to accelerate the digital transformation of Argentina’s agricultural sector.

IFC backs Airtel Africa with $150m to expand mobile networks

IFC backs Airtel Africa with $150m to expand mobile networks

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Manny Pham
Category: Operators
07 July 2026
3876 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • IFC
  • Airtel Africa
  • International Finance Corporation

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) provided Airtel Africa with a US$150 million loan to help expand and modernise its mobile networks, targeting improved connectivity in underserved communities across the continent.

Indosat extends CEO Vikram Sinha’s tenure

Indosat extends CEO Vikram Sinha’s tenure

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Manny Pham
Category: Operators
07 July 2026
1597 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Indonesia
  • Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH) will extend the tenure of President Director and Chief Executive Officer Vikram Sinha for another five years, subject to shareholder approval at the company’s upcoming Annual General Meeting.

Most 5G networks aren’t ready for conversational agentic AI: Ookla

Most 5G networks aren’t ready for conversational agentic AI: Ookla

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John Tanner
Category: Operators
07 July 2026
1991 views
  • Global
  • Low Latency
  • Ookla
  • 5G Services
  • 5G-Advanced
  • Agentic AI

Conversational agentic AI is heralded as the next big opportunity for 5G – provided 5G operators have sufficient uplink speeds to support its latency requirements. But a new report from Ookla finds that most don’t – and the gap is getting worse.

Univity and Telkomsat to explore VLEO-based 5G D2D services for Indonesia

Univity and Telkomsat to explore VLEO-based 5G D2D services for Indonesia

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John Tanner
Category: Satellite Networks
07 July 2026
1285 views
  • Indonesia
  • Wholesale
  • Southeast Asia
  • 5G Services
  • direct-to-device satellite
  • Telkomsat
  • Univity
  • VLEO satellite

French satellite startup Univity – which plans to launch very low earth orbit (VLEO) satellites for wholesale 5G direct-to-device (D2D) services – said on Monday it has signed an MoU with Telkom Indonesia’s satellite arm Telkomsat to cooperate on satellite-based connectivity solutions.

Indonesia’s MoraRepublic taps ZTE to expand FWA and FTTH networks

Indonesia’s MoraRepublic taps ZTE to expand FWA and FTTH networks

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John Tanner
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
07 July 2026
3286 views
  • ZTE
  • Indonesia
  • FttH
  • Moratelindo
  • Southeast Asia
  • FWA
  • MoraRepublic

ZTE revealed on Monday it has signed an MoU with Indonesian telecoms infrastructure and network provider MoraRepublic to collaborate on developing and expanding fixed wireless access (FWA) and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) services for residential and enterprise customers.

Vertiv and Airtrunk boost their data centre operations in Malaysia

Vertiv and Airtrunk boost their data centre operations in Malaysia

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Vaughan O'Grady
Category: Data Centres & Networks
06 July 2026
1928 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Data Centres
  • Malaysia
  • Renewable Energy
  • Solar Energy
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Hyperscale
  • Vertiv
  • AirTrunk
  • Digital Infrastructure
  • Power purchase agreements

Among recent data centre headlines from Malaysia has been news that digital infrastructure company Vertiv is increasing manufacturing capacity, while a deal involving hyperscale data centre specialist Airtrunk aims to secure renewable energy supply for the company’s data centre platform.

Angola’s Unitel plans IPO roadshow

Angola’s Unitel plans IPO roadshow

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Vaughan O'Grady
Category: Investment
06 July 2026
1691 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Angola
  • Privatisation
  • Unitel
  • IPOs

Angola's biggest telecommunications operator, Unitel, is preparing an initial public offering (IPO) of its shares on the local stock exchange and will launch a roadshow next week, according to a company statement.

Latvia’s LMT prepares rail services for FRMCS

Latvia’s LMT prepares rail services for FRMCS

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Vaughan O'Grady
Category: Wireless Networks
06 July 2026
1893 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Latvia
  • Railways
  • Low Latency
  • LMT
  • Baltic region
  • 5G Private Networks
  • European Union
  • FRMCS
  • Autonomous Networks

Latvia’s SJSC Latvijas dzelzceļš, a group of transport, logistics and technology companies mainly focused on the provision of a competitive railway infrastructure, will be the first railway company in the Baltics to use a private 5G network technology provided by Latvian operator LMT Group.

Beyond robot races: Inside China Unicom and Huawei’s innovations for the mobile AI era

Beyond robot races: Inside China Unicom and Huawei’s innovations for the mobile AI era

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Staff Writer
Category: Operators
06 July 2026
2987 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China
  • China Unicom
  • Huawei
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Partner Content
  • MWC Shanghai 2026

One of most viral videos of 2026 to date captured a humanoid robot named Flash running in the Beijing E-Town Half-Marathon and Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon in April, and setting a world speed record in the process. What casual spectators may not have known is that the event was also a preview of the coming era of mobile AI – in this case, powered by China Unicom Beijing and Huawei Technologies.

India widens crackdown on anonymous messaging with Telegram and Signal notices

India widens crackdown on anonymous messaging with Telegram and Signal notices

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Manny Pham
Category: Devices & Platforms
06 July 2026
10778 views
  • Central South Asia
  • India
  • WhatsApp
  • Telegram
  • Signal

India has increased its policing of online technology platforms as it has reportedly demanded messaging services Telegram and Signal explain their safeguards around users keeping their phone numbers hidden, after WhatsApp saw its usernames rollout paused.

Why agentic operations could redefine growth for telecom operators

Why agentic operations could redefine growth for telecom operators

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STAFF WRITER
Category: Vendors
06 July 2026
13884 views
  • Huawei
  • AI
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Partner Content

For much of the past decade, telecom operators have searched for new growth by expanding connectivity, investing in faster networks and introducing new digital services. Yet despite those efforts, many continue to face familiar challenges: slowing subscriber growth, intense competition and increasing pressure to improve customer experience while controlling operational costs.

Digicel PNG says it's 5G-ready as NICTA issues 5G spectrum proposals

Digicel PNG says it's 5G-ready as NICTA issues 5G spectrum proposals

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John Tanner
Category: Wireless Networks
06 July 2026
1398 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Papua New Guinea
  • 5G Spectrum
  • 5G networks
  • Digicel PNG
  • NICTA

Papua New Guinea saw movement on the 5G front on Friday after Digicel PNG announced its mobile network is now officially 5G-ready, while the country’s regulator released two draft plans for 5G spectrum bands.

Paratus and Powertel light up first phase of Zimbabwe fibre backbone

Paratus and Powertel light up first phase of Zimbabwe fibre backbone

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John Tanner
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
06 July 2026
1721 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Zimbabwe
  • Fibre Backbone
  • Paratus Group
  • Powertel Communications

Paratus Zimbabwe and Powertel Communications, the ICT arm of Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA), announced on Friday that the first phase of their national fibre backbone project is now live and carrying traffic.

Pakistan’s internet back to normal after yet another fault on SEA-ME-WE 5

Pakistan’s internet back to normal after yet another fault on SEA-ME-WE 5

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John Tanner
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
06 July 2026
2230 views
  • Central South Asia
  • Pakistan
  • Subsea Cable
  • Pakistan Telecommunication Authority
  • SEA-ME-WE 5
  • Transworld Associates

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) announced on Friday that international connectivity services on the SEA-ME-WE 5 subsea cable system have been fully restored following a fault on the cable a day earlier.

Chile updates and enhances satcoms rules

Chile updates and enhances satcoms rules

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Vaughan O'Grady
Category: Satellite Networks
03 July 2026
3340 views
  • Latin America
  • Spectrum
  • Chile
  • Connectivity
  • Ka-Band
  • Subtel
  • Ku-band
  • Satellite Services
  • Remote and Rural
  • Hughes
  • Satellite Internet
  • Starlink

Chile telecoms regulator Subtel has this week announced plans to expand competition in satellite services in Chile and to incorporate new bands to improve connectivity.

DRC announces fibre expansion project with Genew Technologies

DRC announces fibre expansion project with Genew Technologies

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James Barton
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
03 July 2026
2965 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Fibre Optic Cable
  • Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Genew Technologies

The Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Digital Affairs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Genew Technologies for a major fibre optic initiative covering the Congo River.

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Coltan from DRC conflict used in technology from major telecom firms

Coltan from DRC conflict used in technology from major telecom firms

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DTW26 Impressions: Establishing trust in AI through collaboration

DTW26 Impressions: Establishing trust in AI through collaboration

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DTW26 Impressions: Establishing trust in AI through collaboration
TM Forum: Trust will decide the AI Race to 2030

TM Forum: Trust will decide the AI Race to 2030

Enterprise Ecosystems
TM Forum: Trust will decide the AI Race to 2030
AI governance: Can regulation keep pace with autonomous networks?

AI governance: Can regulation keep pace with autonomous networks?

Wireless Networks
AI governance: Can regulation keep pace with autonomous networks?
Why Veon isn’t worried about hyperscalers winning the AI race

Why Veon isn’t worried about hyperscalers winning the AI race

Operators
Why Veon isn’t worried about hyperscalers winning the AI race
Data centres and digital finance in Africa: the state of play

Data centres and digital finance in Africa: the state of play

Data Centres & Networks
Data centres and digital finance in Africa: the state of play

MENA - Latest News

Vodafone claims strong results for energy-saving trials in Turkey

Vodafone claims strong results for energy-saving trials in Turkey

Zain KSA taps Red Hat to make its organisation AI-ready

Zain KSA taps Red Hat to make its organisation AI-ready

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Beyond robot races: Inside China Unicom and Huawei’s innovations for the mobile AI era

Beyond robot races: Inside China Unicom and Huawei’s innovations for the mobile AI era

Operators
Beyond robot races: Inside China Unicom and Huawei’s innovations for the mobile AI era
DTW26 Impressions: Establishing trust in AI through collaboration

DTW26 Impressions: Establishing trust in AI through collaboration

Enterprise Ecosystems
DTW26 Impressions: Establishing trust in AI through collaboration
OpenAN project aims to enable O&M agent collaboration in autonomous networks

OpenAN project aims to enable O&M agent collaboration in autonomous networks

Optical & Fixed Networks
OpenAN project aims to enable O&M agent collaboration in autonomous networks
Telcos must embrace AI internally before customers can benefit: Globe CEO

Telcos must absorb AI internally before customers can benefit: Globe CEO

Enterprise Ecosystems
Telcos must absorb AI internally before customers can benefit: Globe CEO
Tokens touted to telcos as ticket to monetising AI – starting in China

Tokens touted to telcos as ticket to monetising AI – starting in China

Enterprise Ecosystems
Tokens touted to telcos as ticket to monetising AI – starting in China
Chinese telcos are kickstarting GSMA’s “IQ era” of mobile AI

Chinese telcos are kickstarting GSMA’s “IQ era” of mobile AI

Wireless Networks
Chinese telcos are kickstarting GSMA’s “IQ era” of mobile AI
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LoRa Alliance claims leading position in IoT for agriculture

LoRa Alliance claims leading position in IoT for agriculture

DataHub and Hosted AI plan AI cloud offering in Nepal

DataHub and Hosted AI plan AI cloud offering in Nepal

Artificial Intelligence

Zain KSA taps Red Hat to make its organisation AI-ready

Zain KSA taps Red Hat to make its organisation AI-ready

Enterprise Ecosystems
Zain KSA taps Red Hat to make its organisation AI-ready
NEC XON Systems and PowerX link up to support African networks

NEC XON Systems and PowerX link up to support African networks

Service Management
NEC XON Systems and PowerX link up to support African networks
Digicel Trinidad & Tobago teams with Flytxt for AI-powered CVM

Digicel Trinidad & Tobago teams with Flytxt for AI-powered CVM

Customer Management
Digicel Trinidad & Tobago teams with Flytxt for AI-powered CVM
DataHub and Hosted AI plan AI cloud offering in Nepal

DataHub and Hosted AI plan AI cloud offering in Nepal

Cloud & Virtualisation
DataHub and Hosted AI plan AI cloud offering in Nepal
Huawei supports digital transformation of Argentinian agriculture

Huawei supports digital transformation of Argentinian agriculture

Enterprise Ecosystems
Huawei supports digital transformation of Argentinian agriculture
Most 5G networks aren’t ready for conversational agentic AI: Ookla

Most 5G networks aren’t ready for conversational agentic AI: Ookla

Operators
Most 5G networks aren’t ready for conversational agentic AI: Ookla

Central & East Europe Update

LoRa Alliance claims leading position in IoT for agriculture

LoRa Alliance claims leading position in IoT for agriculture

Latvia’s LMT prepares rail services for FRMCS

Latvia’s LMT prepares rail services for FRMCS

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