Battery manufacturer Saft has received an order from Reliance Jio Infocomm for its Evolion lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery systems.
Zimbabwean incumbent TelOne has signed an extension to its connectivity contract with Avanti.
Thailand’s ICT minister has called for spectrum held by state-owned operators to be returned to the government and refarmed so that it can be resold for 4G use.
Latin America is an attractive region for MNOs to explore the m-commerce space beyond m-payments, due to the increasing presence of mobile merchants and the strong base of mobile users.
Millicom has launched a new 4G wireless network in Tanzania, offering Tigo customers high-speed internet for the first time.
India’s income tax department has asked Vodafone to re-submit its tax return for the year 2009-10 for further review.
Customers of M-Pesa and MTN Mobile Money in East Africa will be able to transfer money to each other following an agreement between Vodafone Group and MTN Group to interconnect their mobile money services.
Indosat and Facebook have partnered to launch Internet.org in Indonesia as part of the “Internet Tanpa Pulsa Untuk Semua” initiative for all Indonesians.
Indian regulator TRAI has claimed that Bharti Airtel’s new service Airtel Zero contravenes the country’s net neutrality principles.
The Slovenian state investment fund SDH has received a binding bid for its 73% stake in Telekom Slovenije from UK private equity firm Cinven.
VimpelCom is expanding its use of Openmind’s SMS traffic control solution in Moscow and Central Russia.
Afghan m-commerce provider M-Paisa is partnering with electrical company Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS) to allow bill payments via mobile money transactions.
Indian e-commerce provider Flipkart has pulled out of Bharti Airtel’s new Airtel Zero service, which subsidises data services for particular apps.
Intelsat, BT Group, and ITC Global have donated satellite capacity, equipment and manpower to help restore critical communication networks across Vanuatu.
Bangladesh’s spectrum auctions look likely to be delayed again due to a regulatory dispute concerning SIM replacement taxes.
Pan-African MTN Group may consolidate its position in the Nigerian mobile market with the acquisition of CDMA operator Visafone.
Middle Eastern 4G service provider Tishknet has extended its Alepo policy, charging and CRM solution to provide support for its existing WiMAX services in addition to its future LTE network.
Vodacom is launching South Africa’s first commercially available VoLTE network.
Two bidders have emerged for the Slovenian incumbent Telekom Slovenije.
Reliance Jio Infocomm is planning to differentiate its 4G service from its competitors’ with bespoke apps.
Orange Polska has selected Ericsson as its OSS transformation partner.
mHealth adoption is growing globally, according to a new report conducted by the mobile trade body Mobile Ecosystem Forum.
Despite the vast amounts bid for spectrum in the country’s latest round of auctions, the head of India’s Department of Telecom has claimed that there is “no case at all” for increasing tariffs.
The government of Slovakia is aiming to offer its 49% holding in incumbent operator Slovak Telekom on the London and Bratislava stock exchanges.
Bharti Airtel has begun offering data services free of charge via a new platform.
STC has selected DragonWave to support its enterprise network expansion.
Indonesian operator Telkomsel has selected Cloudera to provide its big data platform in order to facilitate its transition from a voice and SMS operator to a broadband provider.
America Movil has unveiled plans to spin off its tower mast business as a means of reducing its dominance in the Mexican telecoms market.
Thai state-owned operator CAT is aiming to strike a network sharing deal with the country’s second largest operator dtac in Q2.
Turkish conglomerate Cukurova Holding has begun an attempt to acquire a further stake in the country’s leading mobile operator, Turkcell.
Construction on the South-East Asia – United States (SEA-US) submarine cable system has officially begun.
Microsoft 4Afrika has launched an online hub for Kenyan small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to access locally relevant information and resources to promote SMEs and improve trade.
UPC Hungary has appointed Dimoco as its partner for the technical implementation of Mobile Payment services across its mobile offering.
The regulator of Thailand, NBTC, has pushed the country’s 4G spectrum auctions to the end of the year.
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