Long-running MVNO Virgin Mobile South Africa has shut down more than two months ahead of schedule, with its SIM cards rendered inactive from Friday 17 September. Earlier this month Virgin... more

Gambian telecoms watchdog the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) has ordered mobile operator Comium to suspend its services due to its failure to pay licensing, spectrum and international gateway fees,... more

Indian cellco Vodafone Idea (Vi) has conducted trials of 5G technology in the cities of Pune and Gandhinagar using spectrum in the 26GHz and 3.5GHz bands. The operator and its... more

Mobile network operator XL Axiata has announced that under its ongoing 4G network rollout programme, it has deployed LTE to remote areas in the vast Maluku Islands – extending from... more

Globe Telecom has fulfilled its goal of deploying one million new fibre-optic lines this year, three months ahead of schedule. ‘All of our regional teams delivered big numbers especially in... more

Starlink – the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite broadband provider backed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX venture – has indicated that it will emerge from its beta testing phase next month.... more

Telecom Fiji Limited (TFL), the country’s de facto monopoly provider of local and national long-distance telephony, and the sole operator of the PSTN, has said that Fijians will now be... more

GTT Communications has announced the completion of the sale of its infrastructure division to I Squared Capital. The division consists of a pan-European, North American, and subsea fibre network and... more