Taiwan’s National Communications Commission (NCC) is scheduled to kick off its auction for 5G-suitable spectrum across the 1800MHz (20MHz), 3.5GHz (270MHz) and 28GHz (2,500MHz) bands next week, ahead of which... more

Egyptian mobile network operator (MNO) Etisalat Misr is reported to have achieved downlink speeds of 1.4Gbps in a 5G test conducted during the Cairo ICT 2019 trade event, according to... more

Ooredoo Maldives has launched Wi-Fi Calling, also known as voice-over-Wi-Fi (VoWiFi), claiming a first in the archipelago. Cited by local newspaper The Edition, CEO of Ooredoo Maldives Najib Khan stated:... more

The Belgian digital agenda and telecoms minister, Philippe De Backer, hopes a proposal to place the proceeds of the country’s 5G spectrum auction in a blocked account will enable a... more

Chile’s Antitrust Tribunal (Tribunal de Defensa de la Libre Competencia, TDLC) has reached a decision regarding new spectrum holding limits, largely supporting the most recent proposals of sector watchdog the... more

The government of the Netherlands yesterday (5 December 2019) launched a public consultation on the draft plan for the country’s 700MHz/1400MHz/2100MHz 5G spectrum auction scheduled for May 2020. The government... more

Chinese-owned cellco Zong has paid the government PKR37.16 billion (USD238.7 million) towards its licence fee renewal as it – along with rival operators Telenor Pakistan and Jazz – continues to... more

Nigeria-based infrastructure firm MainOne Cable Company has announced that the submarine branch linking Cote d’Ivoire to its MainOne cable system is now ready for service (RFS). In addition, MainOne is... more

Telekom Deutschland and EWE have submitted a list of proposed commitments and concessions to German antimonopoly authority the Bundeskartellamt to gain approval for their planned joint fibre-optic network development in... more

Greek fixed and mobile telco Wind Hellas is expecting to receive its first takeover offers this month. A report from Kathimerini cites sources as saying that 11 December is the... more

Orange Group has published its new five-year strategic plan, dubbed Engage 2025, with group chairman and CEO Stephane Richard describing the programme as ‘the most significant transformational change the company... more